The Siege of Kimberley was lifted.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2000
Monday, February 14, 2000
Wednesday, February 14, 1900. Invading the Orange Free State.
British troops invaded the Orange Free State.
Elon Musk is probably still mad about it.
Congress approved the restoration of the USS Constitution, which was barely seaworthy.
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Monday, February 12, 1900. Not Running for VP.
Saturday, February 12, 2000
Monday, February 12, 1900. Not Running for VP.
Governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt stated on this day:
In view of the continued statements in the press that I may be urged as a candidate for vice president and in view of the many letters that reach me advising me for and against such a course, it is proper for me to state definitely that under no circumstances could I or would I accept the nomination for the vice presidency.
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Sunday, February 11, 1900. The Lenins take a journey.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1920s, 1924, 1930s, 1939, Philippine Insurrection, Russia, Spanish American War, USSR, Vladimir Lenin
Friday, February 11, 2000
Sunday, February 11, 1900. The Lenins take a journey.
Vladimir Lenin was released from exile to the Siberian village of Shushenskoye. Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya travelled by horseback for 200 mi) to Ufa and arrived there on February 18. She sometimes appears to be a real crab in photographs, which is perhaps why Lenin took Inessa Fyodorovna Armand as a mistress.
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Krupskaya looking pissed off. Maybe that's why Vlad took a mistress.
Lenin, a lawyer by trade, died in 1924 after his populist coup left Russia a freaking mess, which it still is. Krupskaya died in 1939. They helped bring in a horror that the world has never recovered from. Lenin, in retrospect, died well before he could really see what a horror he had made of things.
1,100 Spanish POWs from Philippine American War arrived to repatriation in Barcelona.
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Saturday. February 10, 1900. Relocating to the Big Horn Basin.
Thursday, February 10, 2000
Saturday. February 10, 1900. Relocating to the Big Horn Basin.
The New York Times claimed that over 80,000 Utahans were preparing to move to the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming to take lands under the Desert Lands Act.
The Basin does have a large Mormon population, although 80,000 people did not move. It also has a fairly sizable Catholic population.
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Friday, February 9, 1900. The Davis Cup.
Wednesday, February 9, 2000
Friday, February 9, 1900. The Davis Cup.
President of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association Dwight F. Davis announced that he would donate a silver bowl to the nation that won the international tennis championship.
That's the Davis Cup.
American player Dwight Davis in 1900 with the trophy he committed to build
My daughter is also an excellent tennis player.
I'm not. It's one of my many failings in life. I mean that sincerely. Not the most serious one, but one of them.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.Many people, I'd note, grouse about their parents. I miss mine every day, and wish that I measured up to them. I do not.
The Hershey Bar, which I love, was introduced.
Suffragist, and abolitionist Eliza Seaman Leggett died.
Walter Page, jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, was born.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2000
Thursday, February 8, 1900. Freak blizzards, Failed Boer attacks, Je me souviens, Okinawan legacy.
A freak blizzard, if any blizzard is a freak, broke out in the Midwest in which the unseasonably warm temperature in Chicago was 62 °F (17 °C) at 7:00 am, and fell to 10 °F (−12 °C) by 11:00 pm. The drop in temperature stands as a record to this day.
The Boers attacked the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but were turned back.
The the States of Jersey permitted the use of the English language in its parliamentary debates for the first time, which is a crying shame.
French had been the language that was used until that time, and in my view, still should be.
Fiddlin' Joe Martin was born January 8, 1900 in Edwards, Mississippi.
Okinawan Toyama Kyuzo, from Kin Town, arrived in Hawaii. He was the first of many from Okinawa.
Actress Dorothy I. Adams was born in Hannah, North Dakota. She played Wilma Cameron's mother in the bittersweet The Best Years of Our Lives, one of the best movies of all time, and the best film about the tragic, and tragically flawed "Greatest Generation". It's hard to believe that she was only 46 years old when the film was made, which interestingly links in, a bit, to a comment made must yesterday.
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Wednesday, February 7, 1900. Plague comes to the United States.
Labels: 1900, 1900–1904 San Francisco plague, 1900s, California (San Fransico), China, Disease, Education, Great Plague, Satire, Wyoming Freedom Caucus
Monday, February 7, 2000
Wednesday, February 7, 1900. Plague comes to the United States.
Empress Dowager Cixi of China issued an edict abolishing the teaching of the "new, depraved and erroneous subjects of the Western schools".
She was apparently a member of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus.
San Francisco lumber yard owners Wong Chut King became the first person in the US who is known to have fallen ill due to bubonic plague.
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Tuesday, February 6, 1900. A judge becomes head of the Philippine Commission.
Sunday, February 6, 2000
Tuesday, February 6, 1900. A judge becomes head of the Philippine Commission.
Judge William Howard Taft of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals was appointed head of the Philippine Commission by President McKinley.
John Redmond was chosen as chair of the United Irish League, a body advocating an Irish Free State.
The British government survived a vote of no confidence about by reversals in the Boer War.
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Thursday, February 1, 1900. Kodak Brownie introduced.
Tuesday, February 1, 2000
Thursday, February 1, 1900. Kodak Brownie introduced.
Kodak introduced the Brownie camera. Priced at $1.00 ($33.47 in 2022 U.S. Dollars), it was affordable to the masses.
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Monday, January 29, 1900. The American League organized.
Saturday, January 29, 2000
Monday, January 29, 1900. The American League organized.
There were originally seven teams, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and St. Louis. New York was correctly anticipated to add a team.
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Saturday, January 27, 1900. Boxers, naming an island, and Hyman Rickover.
Thursday, January 27, 2000
Saturday, January 27, 1900. Boxers, naming an island, and Hyman Rickover.
Diplomats for the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany and Italy sent notes to the Chinese Foreign Ministry (the Zongli Yamen) requesting an imperial decree suppressing the Boxers and the Big Swords Society in Shandong and Zhili.
A Senate Committee voted unanimously to refer to Puerto Rico legally as "Porto Rico", rather than the name we normally use, which had been what President McKinley ordered it to be called via Executive Order. Also, In the U.S. Treasurer was authorized to retire the Puerto Rican money in favor of U.S. coinage, at the rate of 60 cents per peso.
Hyman G. Rickover was born in Vistulaland to a Jewish Polish family. He'd become the "Father of the Nuclear Navy" in the US, retiring well above the normal mandated retirement age in 1982. He died in 1986.
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Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Battle of Spion Kop.
Monday, January 24, 2000
Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Battle of Spion Kop.
Boers at Spion Kop. Kop is a Boer word for "head".
An an 8,000 Boer force defeated a 25,000 British contingent in the Battle of Spion Kop. The British took 243 dead and 1,250 wounded, and 300 captured. The Boers 68 killed and 267 wounded.
The assault was badly made by the British, failing to appreciate the nature of modern rifle fire.
A council of the Chinese "Grand Councillors, Grand Secretaries and Presidents of the Board" agreed that the Guangxu Emperor should abdicate. P'u Ch'un, age 14, was announced as heir apparent to the throne.
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Friday, January 21, 2000
Sunday, January 21, 1900. Frontier types and technology.
Frontier personality and later Montana lawman, John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, died at age 75.
Born with the last name Garrison, in Pattenburg, New Jersey, he was a sailor in the Mexican War before deserting after striking an officer. He became a frontiersman following that. In 1847 his wife, a Salish Native American, was killed by a young Crow man and his fellow hunters causing Johnson to launch on on a years long campaign of revenge which featured eating the livers of killed Crow warriors. He served for a time with the 2nd Colorado Cavalry during the Civil War and was a lawman in Montana for a time thereafter. He died in a veterans home in California, and was buried in a Los Angeles veteran's cemetery, before being reinterred in Cody, Wyoming in 1974, following the popularity of the film Jeremiah Johnson, which was based on his life.
Anne Ellsworth Smith, the original operator on the Baltimore–Washington telegraph line, who had sent the first telegraph message on May 24, 1844, at age 17 of "What hath God wrought?" died at age 73.
Former Wild Bunch member Willard Erastus Christianson, born Erastus Christiansen, and also known as Matt Warner, was released from prison in Utah after being pardoned. He went on to later being elected as a justice of the peace and serving as a deputy sheriff in Carbon County, Utah.
In spite of having a violent temper and having lived a life of crime, he had a reputation for being extremely honest.
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Saturday, January 20, 1900. A fire in Honolulu's Chinatown and "Die Erwerbung werthvoller Küstenstadte der Neuenglandstaaten wäre das wirksamste mittel, den frieden zu erzwingen"
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Disaster, Disease, German Kriegsmarine, German Navy, Germany, Hawaii, Honolulu Hawaii, United States
Thursday, January 20, 2000
Saturday, January 20, 1900. A fire in Honolulu's Chinatown and "Die Erwerbung werthvoller Küstenstadte der Neuenglandstaaten wäre das wirksamste mittel, den frieden zu erzwingen"
A terrible fire broke out in Honolulu's China town when health officials ordered controlled burns in the area to address the bubonic plague. They grew out of control and destructive.
At the request of German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the director of the German Imperial Naval Office, Admiral Otto von Diederichs presented contingency plans for a naval blockade and limited armed invasion of the United States.
Frankly, the concept was absurd.
Perhaps emphasizing its absurdity, the size of the German navy would have had to been doubled, according to the report.
Of course, militaries engage in contingency planning, which is often absurd, all the time. Having said that, German concepts of messing around in North and Central America were fairly common and always absurd right up until the US entered the First World War.
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Friday, January 19, 1900. Captured.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, baseball, Crime, Health, Mental Health, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines
Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Friday, January 19, 1900. Captured.
Filipino guerillas captured an American troop train at Alaminos, Laguna.
Boston Beaneater's catcher Marty Bergen killed his wife and six year old duaghter with an axe, and then killed himself. He'd become mentally unstable after the death of his son. He was such a good cathcer, that he later received some votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
As horrific as this sounds, a much beloved, I'm told, great uncle of mine did the same thing, kill his wife and daughter, while deranged, then killing himself. He turned out to be suffering from a brain tumor.
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Thursday, January 18, 1900. Battle of Mazocoba.
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Thursday, January 18, 1900. Battle of Mazocoba.
The Battle of Mazocoba was fought in Sonora, Mexico between Yaqui rebels and the Mexican army. It resulted in largescale Yaqui losses, but not conclusive tactical conclusion.
Frederic Remington's 1896 depiction of a Yaqui rebel.
Yesterday was our first mention of the Yaqui people and the Yaqui Wars. Yaqui resistance to Spanish, and then Mexican, authority dated from 1533 to 1929.
Weyerhauser was incorporated in Washington state.
Pvt. Frank T. O. Walker would preform the actions that resulted in his being awarded the Medal of Honor. His citation reads:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Frank T. O. Walker, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 18 January 1900, while serving with Company F, 46th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in action at Taal, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Under heavy fire of the enemy Private Walker rescued a dying comrade who was sinking beneath the water.
Walker was a volunteer from Massachusetts. He'd die in 1904, at age 26 and apparently as a civilian.
The Delaware Supreme Court refused to admit Philadelphia attorney Carrie B. Kilgore as she was a woman, and therefore barred by a Delaware provision that attorneys at law musts be eligible to vote.
L. Frank Baum and illustrator W. W. Denslow jointly copyrighted their new book, The Land of Oz.
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Wednesday, January 17, 1900. Yaqui rebellion.
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