January 1900 - January 28, 1900 (Sunday)

January 28, 1900 (Sunday)

• At the restaurant "Zum Mariengarten", in Leipzig, representatives from 86 soccer associations met at the invitation of Theoder Schoffler, to organize the Deutscher Fussball-Bund. A limestone plaque at the Friedrich Hofmeister Verlag on Buttnerstrasse commemorates the occasion.
• In Baltimore, Police Marshal Hamilton enforced Maryland's 177 year old blue law, Article XXVII, section 247, which provided that "No person shall work or do any bodily labor on the Lord's Day". Every store in the city was ordered closed, including businesses that formerly had arranged open. The New York Times reported that "every cigar store, corner grocery, bakery and the like were closed up tight" and that the police were ordered to take the names of violators for future prosecution.