that King Umberto met his exact double the day before at a restaurant, and that the man died earlier in the day "of a shooting accident". Born: Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974, in Boden, Sweden (d. 1976) Monday, July 30, 1900 On the same day that Queen Victoria's second son Alfred died, her eldest, Albert, Prince of Wales, presided over the inauguration of the Central London Railway, London's third underground subway. Tuesday, July 31, 1900 By a margin of 44,800 to 19,691 voters in the colony of Western Australia approved the Constitution of Australia, clearing the way for their admission as a state in the Commonwealth of Australia. A peaceful coup d'état against Colombian President Manuel Antonio Sanclemente was mounted in Colombia by the Historical Conservatives led by Vice President José Manuel Marroquín. Sanclemente was in ill health and far away from the capital city of Bogotá, and neither the War Commissioner nor the chief of police prevented the coup from taking place. References External links 1900 1900-07 1900-07