June 16, 1900 (Saturday)
- In Lübeck, Germany, the Elbe-Lübeck Canal, 41 miles (66 km) in length, was formally opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The canal took five years to build at a cost of nearly six million dollars at the time, and joined the Elbe River to the Trave, which in turn provided ocean access at the Baltic Sea.
- An accident at the Slough railway station led to the 1906 introduction of a system of Automatic Train Control.
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