Empress Dowager Cixi re-established the Imperial Court to rule China, following the disaster of the Boxer Rebellion.
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Thursday, October 26, 2000
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Thursday, October 25, 1900. The Empire of Korea.
The Korean peninsula was renamed the Empire of Korea by the Chosen dynasty.
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The Transvaal Colony was annexed to the United Kingdom and made part of the Union of South Africa.
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Wednesday, October 24, 1900. Khaki Election
Monday, October 23, 2000
Wednesday, October 24, 1900. Khaki Election
The first Khaki Election, so called because of the supposed conclusion of the Boer War (which wasn't actually close to being over yet), resulted in the Conservative Party prevailing, but with a diminished number of seats.
Kaiser Wilhelm rode on a monorail, the first head of state to do so.
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Sunday, October 21, 1900. 19 against 300.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1920s, 1929, Army, Luzon, Mexican Border War, Personalities, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines, World War One
Saturday, October 21, 2000
Sunday, October 21, 1900. 19 against 300.
Cpt. George W. Biegler performed the actions that resulted in his winning the Congressional of Honor. His award stated:
With but 19 men resisted and at close quarters defeated 300 of the enemy.
This on Luzon.
Biegler was serving in the 28th Infantry U.S. Volunteers at the time and went on to received a commission in the Regular Army, apparently in the cavalry branch. He later served in the Mexican Border War and World War One. He died in 1929 at age 59 after having reached the rank of Lt. Col.
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Thursday, October 18, 1900. The Wright brothers begin to experiment with untethered gliders.
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Thursday, October 18, 1900. The Wright brothers begin to experiment with untethered gliders.
The Wright Brothers began untethered glider flight experiments at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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Tuesday, October 16, 1900. No spheres of influence in China.
Monday, October 16, 2000
Tuesday, October 16, 1900. No spheres of influence in China.
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The United Kingdom and Germany signed an agreement in London, providing that they would oppose the partition of China into spheres of influence.
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Monday, October 15, 1900. Cancer questionnaire.
Sunday, October 15, 2000
Monday, October 15, 1900. Cancer questionnaire.
Questionnaires were sent to every physician in Germany in the first attempt to make a study on the prevalence of cancer.
Frontier Battalion Texas Ranger Lieutenant T. L. Fuller was murdered in an Orange, Texas barber shop. He'd be the last member of the Frontier Battalion killed in the line of duty, as it was disbanded in 1901, there no longer being a frontier.
North Dakota politician Alexander McKenzie was arrested in Alaska on a scheme to dominate the territory's gold fields.
Mark Twain returned to the US after ten years in Europe.
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Tuesday, October 12, 1915. The execution of Edith Cavell.
Labels: 1880s, 1885, 1890, 1890s, 1910s, 1915, 1915 World Series, baseball, Belgium, Knights of Columbus, Mormon, Personalities, polyandry, polygamy, Porfirio Díaz, religion, the spoken word, Theodore Roosevelt
Friday, October 13, 2000
Saturday, October 13, 1900. Two Army physicians meet and end up saving the lives of millions.
Major General Leonard Wood, U.S. Military Governor of Cuba and a physician met with Major Walter Reed, U.S. Army surgeon, and authorized further funding of experiments to establish that yellow fever was spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. probably disputes that. Probably Tylenol causes yellow fever.
Anyhow, while Secretary of Defense Hegseth may be upset with the Army being "woke", this wokeness lead to one of the most significant medical developments in history.
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Friday, October 12, 1900. The USS Holland commissioned.
Thursday, October 12, 2000
Friday, October 12, 1900. The USS Holland commissioned.
The USS Holland, the first submarine of the U.S. Navy, was commissioned
The boat was armed with 1 × 17.7 in (450 mm) "18-in" torpedo tube (3 torpedoes) and 1 × 8 in (200 mm) dynamite gu, the muzzle of which can be seen in the photo above. One of seven member of the Plunger Class, she was doomed to rapid obsolescence and decommissioned in 1905. She was not broken up, however, and is a museum ship today..
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Thursday, October 11, 1900. Li Hongzhang, the Viceroy of Zhili, arrived in Beijing to negotiate terms of peace on behalf of China's Imperial Government, with the Eight-Nation Alliance. He was escorted by Russian troops.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boxer Rebellion, Diplomacy, Eight Nation Alliance, Imperial Russian Army, Qing Dynasty
Wednesday, October 11, 2000
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Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Wednesday, October 10, 1900. Glider No. 1 damaged.
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Wright Glider No. 1 was damaged in a test when a 30 mph gust damaged the craft while itw was tethered to a derrick for an experimental flight.
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Tuesday, October 9, 1900. Auto 5.
Monday, October 9, 2000
Tuesday, October 9, 1900. Auto 5.
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John M. Browning was granted a patent for what would become the "self loading" Auto 5 shotgun, which would go into production in 1902.
A phenomenally successful shotgun, it blazed the trail for all later semi automatics. It became so popular that Browning had trouble ceasing to offer it in its catalog even after it desired to do so. The shotgun was manufactured in Belgium for Browning and also offered in the United States by Remington, as the Model 11. Remington's production of Browning's design ceased in 1947, but FN's for Browning carried on until moved to the Japanese firm Miroku in 1975. In 1998 full production finally ceased, with FN carrying on with commemoratives for one final year.
Primarily a hunting weapon, you'll oddly see a lot of inquiries on the net today about whether it saw military use. It did, but mostly as a training weapons. As great as it was, it's action was not suitable for combat conditions, although you'll occasionally see some that were used as police riot guns.
It still has a huge following.
Blog Mirror: Browning Auto 5 Shotgun Review: Still One of the Greatest Semiautos of All Time
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Monday, October 8, 1900. Annexation of the Cook Islands.
Sunday, October 8, 2000
Monday, October 8, 1900. Annexation of the Cook Islands.
The British Empire annexed the Cook Islands.
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The islands became a territory of New Zealand in 1949, which in turn granted them self governing status in 1965
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Friday, October 6, 2000
Saturday, October 6, 1900. Orange.
The flag of the Orange Free State.
The Orange Free State was officially annexed to the British Empire and became the unwilling Orange River Colony.
A short lived rebellion broke out in Huizhou, China, after a call for revolution by Sun Yat-sen.
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Wednesday, October 3, 1900. Prime Minister released, novelist born.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1930s, 1937, 1938, Modernist, Nazi Germany, Philippines, The American South, The written word, Writers
Tuesday, October 3, 2000
Wednesday, October 3, 1900. Prime Minister released, novelist born.
Apolinario Mabini, briefly the prime minister of a briefly independant First Philippine Republic, wsa released from incarceration by the US.
He refused to take an oath of loyalty to the US, nor should he have had to. He would be rearrested and sent to Guam, and in 1903 released again after he took an oath of loyalty in 1903. By that time, he was severely ill, and he died shortly thereafter.
The Wright brothers began manned glider experiments at Kitty Hawk.
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American novelist Thomas Wolfe was born in North Carolina. He died in 1938 at age 37 of tuberculosis.
It's undeniable that the American South produced a lot of writers in the 20th Century. Wolfe was of the Modernist genre which I am not a fan of, and I've never read any of his works. Many of his works were autobiographical in nature. He was popular in Europe and in 1937 wrote two essays for The New Republic warning of the rise of Nazism and anti semitism in Germany. His most famous work, You Can't Go Home Again, was published posthumously.
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Monday. October 1, 1900. Churchill elected to the House of Commons.
Sunday, October 1, 2000
Monday. October 1, 1900. Churchill elected to the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at age 25.
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Sunday, September 30, 1900. The Battle of Obuasi.
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