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The following events occurred in May 1900: ==May 1, 1900 (Tuesday)== *An explosion killed 246 coal miners by carbon monoxide poisoning. The blast, at at the Pleasant Valley Coal Company near Scofield, Utah, sent CO into two different shafts.〔"Most Appalling Mine Horror!", ''The Salt Lake Tribune'', May 2, 1900, p1〕 *Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II issued an imperial edict for the construction of the Hejaz Railway, to link Damascus to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.〔Gunter Dinhobl, Ralf Roth, ''Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'', (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008) pp196–97〕 *Thousands of Russian workers marched in the streets of Kharkov, the first in what would be a series of large protests in Russia's cities.〔Leopold H. Haimson, ''The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries: Voices from the Menshevik Past'' (Cambridge University Press, 1987), p472〕 *Military rule of Puerto Rico ended. Charles H. Allen was sworn in as the Governor, replacing Military Governor George W. Davis.〔Leo Stanton Rowe, ''The United States and Porto Rico'' (Longmans, Green, and co., 1904), p118〕 *Born: Ignazio Silone, Italian author, in Pescina, Italy (d. 1978) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「May 1900」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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