May 10, 1900 (Thursday)
- Japan's Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Kujo Sadako were married in Tokyo, marking the first imperial wedding to include a religious ceremony. Soon thereafter, commoners began requesting similar ceremonies and the Shinto wedding soon became popular throughout the nation.
- Responding to the famine in India, the U.S. paid for the shipment of donations of 200,000 bushels of corn and substantial quantities of seed, via the ship Quito, which sailed from Brooklyn. Christian Herald editor Louis Klopsch, who had lbbied the government to pay the shipping costs, also cabled $40,000 to India for famine relief.
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