March 16, 1900 (Friday)
- The company that would become known as AMF Bowling was incorporated in New Jersey as the American Machine and Foundry Company
- In response to growing trouble with Boxer rebels in China, Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long cabled instructions to the naval base at Cavite, in the Philippines, to ready a warship to sail to Taku in China to protect missionaries at Tianjin. The gunboat Nashville would be sent on June 9.
- The city of Cortland, New York, was founded.
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o’er the mountain-waves,
Her home is on the deep.”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)