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1900
 
    
Ferdinand Zeppelin's first dirigible makes its test flight from a floating hangar on the Lake of Constance       
1900
 
    
Charles Stewart Rolls wins the Automobile Club's Thousand Mile Trial in a 12 horse-power Panhard       
1900
 
    
Jack London's first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, brings him a wide readership       
1900
 
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The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company      
1900
 
    
Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki       
1900
 
    
Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, receives no publicity because his publisher, Frank Doubleday, considers it immoral       
1900
 
    
Sigmund Freud publishes one of his most significant works, The Interpretation of Dreams       
1900
 
    
Australia's Salvation Army produces an ambitious presentation of film and slides in Soldiers of the Cross       
1900
 
     
The Irish Parliamentary Party, which split after the Parnell divorce case, reunites under the leadership of John Redmond        
1900
 
  
More than 8000 people die when a hurricane demolishes the seaside resort of Galveston in Texas