March 6, 1900 (Tuesday)
- Forty-six coal miners were killed at the Red Ash Mine at Fayette County, West Virginia. "The victims were not burned to death", noted an account, "but were killed by being hurled violently by the force of the explosion. Skulls were fractured and limbs broken-- some in many places. So great was this force that the air driven out of the mine piled the coal cars in heaps in front of its entrance."
- The United States Senate voted 44 to 28 to pass the Gold Standard Act
- An excavated Roman amphitheatre at Saint-André-sur-Cailly, France, was formally presented to the city
- Died: Gottlieb Daimler, 75, founder in 1883 of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft. The automobile that he created was named for Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Daimler's French agent, and was marketed as the Mercedes Benz.
- Died: U.S. Representative Alfred C. Harmer, 74, of Pennsylvania. He was nicknamed the "Father of the House" because of his long (three decades) service.
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“One of the most interesting and affecting things [on a difficult return march from a raid into Virginia] is the train of contrabands, old and young, male and female—one hundred to two hundred—toiling uncomplainingly along after and with the army.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)