Boer forces under Christiaan de Wet attacked at Sanna's Post, taking 400 British POWS and cutting off the water supply to Bloemfontein, which resulted in the spread of typhus.
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Friday, March 31, 2000
Thursday, March 30, 2000
Friday, March 30, 1900. Child and Female Labor.
France, effective on this day, reduced the workday for women and children from 12 hours to 11 hours.
Current American Republicans would likely find that abhorrent.
The law provided further that on April 1, 1902, the workday would go to 101⁄2 hours and to ten hours by April 1, 1904.
Father Leonardo Murialdo, 71, founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph died.. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI on May 3, 1970.
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Tuesday, March 27, 1900. Gen. Joubert dies.
Monday, March 27, 2000
Tuesday, March 27, 1900. Gen. Joubert dies.
South Africa's best general, Piet Joubert, died of peritonitis at age 68.
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Sunday, March 25, 1900. Socialist Party founded in United States.
Saturday, March 25, 2000
Sunday, March 25, 1900. Socialist Party founded in United States.
Delegates from the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party founded a Socialist Party in the US.
The party would prove to be a significant one up until World War One, and then it would decline thereafter, although it still exists.
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Saturday, March 24, 1900. No smoking.
Thursday, March 23, 2000
Friday, March 23, 1900. Blood Types.
Dr. Karl Landsteiner's published his report on his discovery of a process for classification of the four blood groups under the ABO blood group system (as A, B, AB and O), "Zur Kenntnis der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe".
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. probably will declare it a fib and order up a healthy bowl of beef tallow.
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Saturday, March 17, 1900. Abolishing slavery on Guam.
Friday, March 17, 2000
Saturday, March 17, 1900. Abolishing slavery on Guam.
The US abolished slavery on Guam.
US forces landed at Tagbilaran in the Philippines.
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Friday, March 16, 1900. McKinley moves towards Philippine independence.
Thursday, March 16, 2000
Friday, March 16, 1900. McKinley moves towards Philippine independence.
The Second Philippine Commission was formed with McKinley appointed William H. Taft at its head. The commission was instructed by McKinley to work towards successful independence.
There's yet another lesson for claimed Chief Executive Trump, who has totally failed to grasp the thought behind President McKinley's tariff policies, which were to wipe out a government surplus by depressing trade. McKinley wasn't an imperialist and was attempting to bring a country to independence even while we were fighting its independence movement.
McKinley, it might be noted, was an intelligent man, not rich, who had served his country in wartime.
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Tuesday, March 13, 1900. Bloemfontein
Location: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Monday, March 13, 2000
Tuesday, March 13, 1900. Bloemfontein
The House passed the Gold Standard Act.
The British marched into Bloemfontein.
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Monday, March 12, 1900. Surrender of the Orange Free State.Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boer War, British Army, Orange Free State
Sunday, March 12, 2000
Monday, March 12, 1900. Surrender of the Orange Free State.
General John French gave the leaders of the Orange Free State 11 hours to surrender, which they did.
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Wednesday, March 7, 1900. Withdrawing some troops.
Tuesday, March 7, 2000
Wednesday, March 7, 1900. Withdrawing some troops.
President McKinley ordered the withdrawal of some of the troops in the Philippines.
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Tuesday, March 6, 1900. The Gold Standards Act passes the Senate.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Currency, Disaster, Donald Trump, Mining, Satire, The Gold Standard, West Virginia, William McKinley
Monday, March 6, 2000
Tuesday, March 6, 1900. The Gold Standards Act passes the Senate.
The Senate passed the Gold Standard Act. It's be signed by President McKinley and go into effect on March 14.
Wait! Donny loves William B. Has he heard of this yet?
A mine explosion at the Red Ash Mine at Fayette County, West Virginia, killed forty six miners.
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Saturday, March 3, 1900. A drunk and William B. McKinley.
Friday, March 3, 2000
Saturday, March 3, 1900. A drunk and William B. McKinley.
From the March 3, 1900 Colliers.
A drunken spectator twice approached the carriage carrying Donny Trump's newfound favorite President, William McKinley and Secretary George B. Cortelyou, attempting to open the vehicle's door in an attempt to shake hands with the President..
In light of McKinley's later fate, this was later recalled by NYPD Commissioner Murphy.
Security wasn't what it now is. Drunks still are what they are now. Presidents have declined enormously in quality.
McKinley had served in the Civil War, which was why he was extremely reluctant to get engaged in a war with Spain. Trump hasn't served in anything. McKinley went on to a career in law after the Civil War. Trump, um, yeah whatever.
Today President McKinley is mostly remembered for his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, who rapidly eclipsed him. Roosevelt was the first great President of the 20th Century, and arguably one of only two great US Presidents of the 20th Century, the other being his cousin Franklin. There have been no great Presidents since FDR, although Truman was certainly a very good President.
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Thursday, March 1, 1900. Samoa
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1954, Colonialism, German Empire, German Resistance Movements, Germany, Heroes, Nazi Germany, Samoa
Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Thursday, March 1, 1900. Samoa
Samoa officially became an unwilling part of the German Empire. Wilhelm Solf became the first governor. Chief Mata'afa, who had fought against the Germans, was named as the paramount chief of the western Samoa colony and Kaiser Wilhelm II was designated as the Paramount King.
Of interest, Solf would die in 1936, his efforts to create a new moderate German political party after the rise of Nazism having failed, but his wife, Johanna, would form the Solf Circle resistance group and personally sheltered Jews along with one of her daughters. She was arrested and put in a concentration camp, but survived and passed away in 1954.
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Wednesday, February 28, 1900. Relieving Ladysmith.
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