September 1900 - September 17, 1900 (Monday)

September 17, 1900 (Monday)

• Queen Victoria issued the Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia, stating "We do hereby declare that on and after the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and one the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of The Commonwealth of Australia."
• Queen Victoria declared Parliament dissolved, with new elections to take place during October.
• The largest walkout in American history, up to that time, began as 112,000 anthracite coal miners left their workplaces in the mines of Pennsylvania. The strike ended on October 17.
• Filipinos under the command of General Juan Cailles defeated Americans from the 15th and 37th Infantry, under the command of Captain Daivd Mitchell, at the Battle of Mabitac.
• The Chicago Public Schools began teaching blind children for the first time, using special teachers trained for the task.
• During Cincinnati's baseball game at Philadelphia, Reds' third base coach Tommy Corcoran uncovered a telegraph wire that the Phillies had been using in order to steal signals from visiting teams.