January 16, 1900 (Tuesday)
- At the Capitol Hotel in Frankfort, Kentucky, former Congressman David G. Colson shot six people, killing three of them. Colson was arrested and charged with murder
- In executive session, the United States Senate ratified the Anglo-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands.
- General Arcadio Maxilom, the leader of the Philippine resistance to American occupiers on the island of Cebu, reorganized his armies for a strategy of guerilla warfare.
- Born: Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank, in Aachen (d. 1945)
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