Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1988.
Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (died 2010)
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, inclu…
Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (died 1975)
Bud Collyer was an American radio actor, announcer and game show host who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars. He is best remembered for his work as t…
Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (died 1969)
Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federati…
Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (died 1997)
Nedra Volz was an American actress. On television, she portrayed Aunt Iola on All in the Family, Adelaide Brubaker on Diff'rent Strokes, Emma Tisdale on The Dukes of Hazzard, Pearl…
Nedra Volz, American actress (died 2003)
William Murray Werber was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox (1933–1936), Philadelphia Ath…
Billy Werber, American baseball player (died 2009)
August "Gus" Schilling was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in f…
Gus Schilling, American actor (died 1957)
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party fro…
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)
Charles Cameron Kingston was an Australian politician. From 1893 to 1899 he was Premier of South Australia, leading a coalition of Radicals supported by the Labor Party.
Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Sir Louis-Napoléon Casault was a Quebec lawyer, judge, professor and political figure. He represented Bellechasse in the 1st Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1870 as a Conservative…
Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1823)
François Édouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.
François Coppée, French poet and author (born 1842)
Thomas Mitchell Morris, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of…
Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (born 1821)
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as initially the Mujaddid of the 14…
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (born 1835)
Louis-Honoré Fréchette was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Acadé…
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (born 1839)
Allen Butler Talcott was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first …
Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (born 1867)
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and Governor General of Ca…
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (born 1841)
Unicameralism is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, ma…
The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session
The Isle of Man TT races are an annual motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man in May and June of mostly every year since its inaugural race in 1907. The two-week event is …
The first Isle of Man TT race is held
The National Association for Women's Suffrage was a Norwegian association for women suffrage, active from 1898 until 1913. It was founded by members of the Norwegian Association fo…
The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary ele
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspectio…
The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day
Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc
August Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of war crimes at Mauthausen-…
August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (died 1947)
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), w…
Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (died 1995)
Malik Miran Bakhsh, also known as Miran Bux, was a Pakistani international cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1955.
Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricketer (died 1991)