Monday, May 6, 1901. 15,000 dead.

The British Ministry of War announced that 14,264 enlisted men and 714 officers had died, to date, in the Boer War.

The first issue of Gorkhapatra, Nepal's oldest still publishing newspaper, was issued.

The House of Commons of the United Kingdom voted 333 to 227 to approve a tax on the sale of coal, still then a major source of power, heat, and coke, in the United Kingdom.

Last edition:

Saturday, May 4, 1901. The Caste War of Yucatán ends.

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