Historical Events for August 1900
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Results 1 - 15 of 15
3rd - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
7th - Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
8th - 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later
10th - 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
14th - 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
14th - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
19th - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
20th - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
20th - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
22nd - Gabriel Faures opera "Prométhée," premieres in Beziers
23rd - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
27th - Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
30th - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
31st - British troops over run Johannesburg
31st - Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
