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:
“Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)