January 1900 - January 9, 1900 (Tuesday)

January 9, 1900 (Tuesday)

• Boxer Terry McGovern defeated George Dixon in a bout for the world featherweight championship, winning a $10,000 purse
• The home of New York World publisher (and future prize founder) Joseph Pulitzer was destroyed in a fire that killed a governess and a friend of the family. The fire broke out at the home, located on 10 East 55th Street in New York City, at 7:30 in the morning.
• Arthur Balfour, Conservative leader of the House of Commons, acknowledged Britain's reverses in the Boer War, but added, "I know of no war in which Great Britain has been engaged, except that resulting in the independence of the American colonies, which did not end triumphantly."
• Willard Crossroads was founded in the state of Virginia.
• Italian football club, S.S. Lazio, was founded as Società Podistica Lazio, being the first football club founded in the Italian capital