253 ice fishermen, who had set up a "fishing village" on an ice floe in the Bjorko Sound in Finland, were killed when a gale swept the settlement out into the Baltic Sea. On the same day, George Grey, brother of British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, was killed by a lion while hunting in Africa.
Mexican revolutionary Abraham Gonzalez moved his office to the Caples building in El Paso, Texas.
California adopted the bear flag as its state flag.
California's flag is frankly weird. The state was only a republic very briefly, and grizzly bears were driven out of the state long, long ago.
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Thursday, February 2, 1911. Fighting in Mexico.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Antarctic, cavalry, Haiti, Honduras, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Navy, Pascual Orozco, Royal Navy
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