Tuesday, May 29, 2001

Wednesday, May 29, 1901. A mounted Boer charge.

Boers under Gen. Jan Kemp made a mounted charge on British yeomanry at Vlakfontein, killing a large number of them.  Up until that point Boer commandos had normally fought as mounted infantry.

Featherweight champion Terry McGovern took on Aurelio Herrera at the Mechanic’s Pavilion in San Francisco.  McGovern knocked out Herrera in the fifth round.

McGovern.

He fought a huge number of fights during his career, which contributed to his death at age 37 by which time he was suffering from mental illness.

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Monday, May 27, 1901. The status of U.S. territories.

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