March 1900 - March 16, 1900 (Friday)

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.