The Immigration Act of 1910 passed prohibiting entry into the United States of criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons.
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The Rif War came to an end in Spain with Spain victorious.
The Sitka National Monument was established.
Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa was born.
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Actress Florence Lawrence became "the first movie star", after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures announced in advertisements that he had signed the leading lady who had only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios.
Prior to that time movie studies did not release the names of their actors.
She'd act up until her death by suicide in 1938, at age 52, at which time she was suffering from chronic illness.
The Montreal Wanderers retained the Stanley Cup.
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The Queen of Spades, by Tchaikovsky, was performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera, in German.
Momofuku Ando (Japanese: 安藤 百福, Hepburn: Andō Momofuku) born Go Pek-Hok, Chinese: 吳百福; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Pek-hok) in Taiwan. He invented ramen noodles in 1958.
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Morocco signed an accord with France, which they no doubt regretted, allowing the French to occupy Casablanca and Quijada in return for military training. It was part of a loan deal. Morocco would ultimately end up being bent over by France, and Spain.
This is similar to the current proposal, in a way, to bend Ukraine over and take its minerals, proposed by Donny Trump. It's another bad idea that Ukraine probably would like to give the US the middle finger salute for, but Donny is too dense to understand that life isn't transactional, the pathetic bloated twit.
Well, if nothing else, it gave us a great movie in the end. . .
Stock in Sears began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
I miss Sears being what it once was.
Allen Brooks, a black man in his 50s or 60s and accused of raping a young white girl of about 2 years old was lynched in Dallas, Texas.
Was he guilty?
Well, without knowing more, and I don't, it seems awfully unlikely. And that's the point. He was deprived of a fair trial and murdered.
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1st Lt. Benjamin Foulois became the first US military pilot after making a solo flight on a Wright Flyer.
He'd go on to serve a long, but not uncontroversial career. As a result, he retried unceremoniously under a cloud in 1935. He thereafter warned of the dangers of resurgent German airpower, and he offered to return to service, with a combat command, during World War TWo, but was not taken up on the offer. He died in 1967 at age 87.
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An avalanche in Washington killed 96 people, mostly passengers of a stranded passenger train.
A thunderstorm triggered the tragic event at Wellington, Washington. It's the deadliest avalanche in U.S. history.
General Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was elected President of Brazil.
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