July 30, 1900 (Monday)
- On the same day that Queen Victoria's second son, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, died, her eldest, Albert, Prince of Wales, presided over the inauguration of the Central London Railway, London's third underground subway.
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