The U.S. Navy acquired a Curtiss A-1 Triad, becoming the first navy the world to acquire an airplane.
The Fuerzas Regulares Indigenas, the "Regulares" was founded as an infantry battalion in the Spanish Army. It was initially composed of Moroccan soldiers under the command of Spanish officers and it still sort of does in that the recruits are from two autonomous Spanish cities on the North African coast of Morocco.
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The Catholic Foreign Missionary Society of America, the Maryknoll Society, was founded, with approval granted by Pope Pius X.
When I was a kid my parents received their magazine, something I have not thought of for decades.
Russia launched the Sevastopol. T he dreadnought was the largest warship in the world at the time.
Jewish fur buyers were admitted to the fur sales at Tyumen in Siberia for the first time following a request by the U.S. Embassy in Russia to Premier Pyotr Stolypin. The occupation was one traditionally occupied by Jews, but had been prohibited at Tyumen.
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Wisconsin's legislature approved a state income tax, the first state to do so.
The Nakhla meteorite, later determined to have a Martian origin, fell in Egypt at about 9:00 am, near the city of El-Nakhla outside of Alexandria, with 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of mass breaking into forty pieces. Some claim it shows signs of microbial alteration.
Samuel J. Battle was sworn in as the NYPD’s first Black police officer.
The Modern Woodmen of North America were camping in Buffalo, New York.
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The governor of Chihuahua announced that Madero's troops, now in Mexican federal service, and Federal troops would march on Baja California. He appealed to volunteers to help.
Mexican Gen. Manuel Mondragón Montenegro applied for a patent for a bayonet for his semi automatic rifle, which had been adopted by Mexico in 1908, although only a limited number of the rifles were in service by 1911.
Colorado adopted its apparently popular flag. I've always thought this flag a bit lacking, but that's not the widespread view.
Ho Chi Minh boarded the French ship L'Admiral Latouche Tréville on his way to France. He'd taken a job on the ship as part of the kitchen staff.
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Jack Mosby, an IWW member, deserter from the United States Marine Corps, and son of the Confederal general, won an election for the position of Magonistas commander in Baja California, which the Magonistas had declared the region an independent People's Republic the day prior.
The Magonistas were struggling with internal politics and a lack of supplies, which was preventing them from advancing on Federal forces in the rest of Baja California, which they wished to take in defiance of the surrender of the Diaz government to Madero.
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Madero left El Paso on a Southern Pacific train which took him to Spofford Junction, Texas. He crossed the border there into Mexico where he boarded another train on his trip to Mexico City to meet interim Mexican President de la Barra.
Prominent Porfiristas José Ives Limantour, Guillermo de Landa y Escandón and Leopoldo Batres left Mexico City en route to destinations in the United States and Europe where they'd go into exile.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was incorporated.
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