October 15, 1900 (Monday)
- Symphony Hall, the first building designed by an acoustical engineer (Wallace Clement Sabine), opened in Boston.
- Questionnaires were sent to every physician in Germany in the first attempt to make a study on the prevalence of cancer.
- Mark Twain returned to the United States after almost ten years living abroad in Europe.
- Alexander McKenzie, operator of the Alaska Gold Mining Company, was arrested by U.S. marshals. McKenzie, a North Dakota politician who had arrived on July 19, had secured the appointment of a federal judge in hopes of having exclusive control of the gold fields, just long enough to make a fortune.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)