1900 World population: 1.6 billion

• 1st Davis Cup
• Paris World's Fair showcases electricity
• Women compete in the Olympics for the first time
• Every American over the age of 35 was alive during the American Civil War
• William McKinley elected US President

  William McKinley elected as President

• 8,000 cars registered in the US
• L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Paper clip invented
• Seismograph invented
• Zeppelin invented
• Daisy air rifle introduced
• "Brownie" camera introduced
• "Nipper", the RCA dog, trademarked
• 1st Hershey's chocolate bars
• Wesson Oil introduced
• The kitchen range redesigned to burn coal instead of wood
• 1st recognized sale of a "hamburger"
• The Cake Walk was the most fashionable dance
• Spencer Tracy, Louis Armstrong, Margaret Mitchell, Aaron Copeland, Thomas Wolfe, and Kurt Weill born
• Gottlieb Daimler, Casey Jones, Stephen Crane, Nietsche and Sir Arthur Sullivan die
  

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