June 1900 - June 21, 1900 (Thursday)

June 21, 1900 (Thursday)

• China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
• Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return. On November 8, 1902, as his third winter away was beginning, Toll and four others set off from Bennett Island and were never seen again.
• Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines, offered amnesty for 90 days to all guerillas. Only 5,022 Filipinos accepted, mostly prisoners.
• At the 1900 Republican National Convention, U.S. President William McKinley and New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt were unanimously nominated for President and Vice-President.