July 11, 1900 (Wednesday)
- Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain became the first woman to ever win an Olympic medal, when she defeated Helene Prevost in the tennis competition at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. The first revived games, at Athens in 1896, had been for men only.
- In the first and only Olympic competition for croquet, French athletes were the sole participants in all events. Gaston Aumoitte and Chrétien Waydelich won medals in the one-ball and two-ball competitions
- The Buddhasasanangha Library was founded in Wat Benchamabophit, Siam (now Thailand. King Chulalongkorn intended to amassthe largest collection of Buddhist scriptures and books up to that time.
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“People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream. Except on July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.”
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