The USS Oregon arrived in China at Taku Forts to protect American citizens.
Pope Leo XIII canonized Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719) and Rita of Cascia (1381–1457). de la Salle was the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and is the patron saint of teachers.Saint Rita of Cascia, the mother of two and the wife of an abusive husband is one of the patron saints for domestic problems.
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African American Sgt. William Harvey Carney, 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 18, 1863.
While the first Medal of Honor was awarded to a black soldier in 1864, the 1863 action at the assault on Ft. Wagner, South Carolina, is the earliest date for which such an award was conferred on an African American.
The Associated Press was incorporated.
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The first patent for a player piano was issued.
An explosion at the Cumnock Mining Company, near Sanford, North Carolina, killed 22 coal miners.
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An ultimatum to the Empress Dowager Cixi of China to arrest and punish Boxers was issued by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan)
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The Siege of Mafeking was broken. It had started on October 13, 1899.
Robert Baden-Powell had lead the defense of the city. He'd shortly thereafter form the Boy Scouts.
Chinese Christians were murdered at Kaolo.
The first copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, came off the press. The first run of 10,000 copies had been sold prior to publication.
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Chicago's Chief Milk Inspector, Thomas Grady, announced plans to ban dangerous additives from milk, including the preservative formalin.
"Formalin, the chemical used in milk preservatives, will kill a cat", he told reporters. "What will it do to a child?"
Prior to pasteurization milk posed significant health risks which have ironically been revived with the raw milk movement.
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The first mass protest of Russian workers occurred in Kharkov.
Over 200 miners were killed in the Scofield Mine disaster in Utah.
US military governance of Puerto Rico ended.
Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid issued an imperial edict for the construction of the Hejaz railway, to link Damascus to Mecca and Medina.
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