May 3, 1900 (Thursday)
- Negotiations between Denmark and the United States for purchase of what would become the American Virgin Islands fell through. The Danish West Indies would eventually be sold to America in 1917.
- Harry Burke, captain of the University of Cincinnati track team, was fatally injured while practicing the pole vault. The pole snapped and the fall broke Burke's thoracic spine. He died four days later.
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