1896Events January 4 Utah is admitted as the 45th U. January 5 An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Rontgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 H. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 18 The X-ray machine is exhib - Glasgow Underground RailwayThe Glasgow Subway is a metro system which has a circular two-track layout. Trains run clockwise on one track and anticlockwise on the other. It is nicknamed the Clockwork Orange because most of its carriages are painted orange, the corporate colour of St, third in the world, opens (an accident closes it the same day and it only reopens in 1897)
19001900 is the common year starting on Monday. see link for calendar) For the film, see 1900 (film). Events January January 1 Nigeria becomes British protectorate January 2 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 Chicag - Max PlanckMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck ( April 23, 1858 October 4, 1947) was a German physicist who is considered to be the inventor of quantum theory. Born in Kiel, Planck started his physics studies at Munich University in 1874, graduating in 1879 in Berlin. publishes his study of the quantum theory
1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage - First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific OceanFor other meanings of pacific see pacific (disambiguation). The Pacific Ocean (from the Spanish Pacifico meaning peaceful is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179. 7 million kmē (69. 4 mill
