September 26, 1900 (Wednesday)
- The Russian battleship Potemkin, scene of a history-making mutiny in 1905, and subject of a classic film by Sergei Eisenstein, was launched from the Nikolayev shipyard.
- Japan's Prime Minister Yamagata Aritomo resigned after the formation of the new Seiyukai Party. He would be replaced by Hirobumi Itō on October 19.
- The French occultist "Papus" (Gérard Encausse) demonstrated the Archeometer, invented by Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, at the International Spiritist and Spiritualist Conference.
- Tunnel through the Cascade Mountains in Oregon completed after three years and five million dollars.
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“Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a labourer’s fireplace ... will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.”
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