March 31, 1900 (Saturday)
- The first clay tablets with Linear B writing was discovered at the excavation of the Minoan ruins at Knossos. The language was finally deciphered in 1951.
- At Sanna's Post, Boer General Christiaan De Wet led a surprise counterattack on British forces under the command of Brigadier General Broadwood, inflicting more than 150 casualties and obtaining the surrender of more than 400 of the British forces. The water supply for Bloemfontein, the Orange Free State capital that had been recently captured by the British, was cut off, causing the spread of typhoid fever within the capital.
- Born: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, son of King George V and third in line of succession for the British throne from 1911 to 1926; in Sandringham, Norfolk (d. 1974)
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)