October 1900 - October 24, 1900 (Wednesday)

October 24, 1900 (Wednesday)

• After four weeks, voting concluded in the "Khaki Election" in Britain. The Conservative Party, led by Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, lost nine seats but retained a 60 percent majority in Parliament with 402 seats overall, followed by the Liberal Party, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The new Labour Party won its first two seats. Among the new Conservative M.P.'s was Winston Churchill, who defeated Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford to become one of the two representatives from Oldham.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II became the first head of state to ride on a monorail, in a trial run of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
• General Redvers Buller departed South Africa