Editing 1900s (section)

==Disasters==

===Natural disasters===
[[File:Tunguska-Map-fr.svg|300px|thumb|June 30, 1908: The [[Tunguska event]]]]
[[File:Market Street, San Francisco, in ruins (1906).jpg|thumb|220px|right|Ruins from the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]], remembered as one of the worst [[natural disaster]]s in United States history]]
* August 7, 1900 – A 40-foot-tall [[1900 Westchester County tornado|tornado]] struck [[New Rochelle, New York]], US, killing an unknown amount of people.
* September 8, 1900 – A powerful [[tropical cyclone|hurricane]] [[Galveston Hurricane of 1900|hits]] [[Galveston, Texas]], US, killing about 8,000.
* April 19, 1902 – A [[Guatemala 1902 earthquake|magnitude 7.5 earthquake]] rocks [[Guatemala]], killing 2,000.
* May 8, 1902 – In [[Martinique]], [[Mount Pelée]] erupts, destroying the town of [[Saint-Pierre, Martinique|Saint-Pierre]] and killing over 30,000.
* December 25, 1902 – A large [[Christmas Hurricane of 1902|hurricane]] struck the countries of [[Sweden]] and [[Denmark]], leading to the deaths of 50 people.
* February 26-27, 1903 – A large [[extratropical cyclone]] known as [[Storm Ulysses]] swept through the [[British Isles]] and led to the deaths of 30 people.
* April 7, 1906 – [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupts and devastates [[Naples]].
* April 18, 1906 – The [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the [[San Andreas Fault]] destroys much of [[San Francisco]], US, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in damages.
* September 18, 1906 – A [[typhoon]] and [[tsunami]] kill an estimated 10,000 in [[Hong Kong]].
* January 14, 1907 – [[1907 Kingston earthquake|An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica]] kills more than 1,000.
* June 30, 1908 – The [[Tunguska event]] or "Russian explosion" near the [[Podkamennaya Tunguska River]] in [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]], [[Siberia]], [[Russian Empire]] occurs resulting in the flattening {{convert|2,000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} of forest. It is believed to have been caused by the [[air burst]] of a large [[meteoroid]] or [[comet]] fragment, at an altitude of {{convert|5|–|10|km|0}} above the [[Earth]]'s surface.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pasechnik|first=I. P.|chapter=Refinement of the moment of explosion of the Tunguska meteorite from the seismic data|title=Cosmic Matter and the Earth|location=Novosibirsk|publisher=Nauka|year=1986|page=66|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farinella |first1=Paolo |last2=Foschini |first2=L. |last3=Froeschlé |first3=Christiane |last4=Gonczi |first4=R. |last5=Jopek |first5=T. J. |last6=Longo |first6=G. |last7=Michel |first7=Patrick |url=http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/aah2886.pdf|title=Probable asteroidal origin of the Tunguska Cosmic Body|journal=[[Astronomy and Astrophysics|Astronomy & Astrophysics]]|volume=377|issue=3 |pages=1081–1097|year=2001|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20011054|access-date=2011-08-23|bibcode=2001A&A...377.1081F|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Trayner|first=Chris|title=Perplexities of the Tunguska Meteorite|journal=[[The Observatory (journal)|The Observatory]]|volume=114|pages=227–231|year=1994|bibcode = 1994Obs...114..227T }}</ref>
* December 28, 1908 – [[1908 Messina earthquake|An earthquake]] and [[tsunami]] destroys [[Messina, Italy|Messina]], [[Sicily]] and [[Calabria]], killing over 80,000 people.

===Non-natural disasters===
* April 26, 1900 – The [[1900 Hull-Ottawa fire|Great Lumber Fire]] of [[Ottawa]]–[[Hull, Quebec|Hull]] kills 7 and leaves 15,000 homeless.
* May 1, 1900 – The [[Scofield Mine disaster]] in [[Scofield, Utah]], caused by explosion killing at least 200 men.
* June 30, 1900 – [[1900 Hoboken Docks Fire|Hoboken Docks Fire]]: The German passenger ships ''Saale'', ''Main, Bremen'', and ''Kaiser William der Grosse'', all owned by the [[North German Lloyd]] Steamship line, catch fire at the docks in [[Hoboken, New Jersey]], US  . The fire began on a wharf and spread to the adjacent piers, warehouses, and smaller craft, killing 326 people.
* May 3, 1901 – The [[Great Fire of 1901]] begins in [[Jacksonville, Florida]], US.
* July 10, 1902 – The [[Rolling Mill Mine|Rolling Mill Mine disaster]] in [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania]], US, kills 112 miners.
* August 10, 1903 – [[Paris Métro train fire]].
* December 30, 1903 – A [[Iroquois Theater Fire|fire at the Iroquois Theater]] in Chicago, US, kills 600.
* February 7, 1904 – The [[Great Baltimore Fire]] in [[Baltimore]], US, destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
* June 15, 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat ''[[General Slocum]]'' in New York City's East River kills 1,021.
* June 28, 1904 – The Danish ocean liner {{SS|Norge}} runs aground and sinks close to [[Rockall]], killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.
* January 22, 1906 – The {{SS|Valencia}} strikes a reef off [[Vancouver Island]], Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.