July 1900 - July 16, 1900 (Monday)

July 16, 1900 (Monday)

• At the 1900 Summer Olympics nine track and field (athletics) events were held, closing out three days of competition. Ray Ewry, an American who had recovered from a crippling bout with polio, won three gold medals on the same day, in the standing high jump, the standing long jump and the standing triple jump, all events that were later discontinued. NYPD cop John Flanagan won the hammer throw, and a combined Denmark/Sweden team beat France to win the first Olympic tug of war competition.
• A few months after his return from exile in Siberia, Vladimir Lenin left Russia for Munich, Germany, to begin a five-year self-imposed exile. From there, he began work on publishing the newspaper Iskra, with the first issue created on December 11, 1900.