President McKinley ordered the withdrawal of some of the troops in the Philippines.
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The Senate passed the Gold Standard Act. It's be signed by President McKinley and go into effect on March 14.
Wait! Donny loves William B. Has he heard of this yet?
A mine explosion at the Red Ash Mine at Fayette County, West Virginia, killed forty six miners.
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A drunken spectator twice approached the carriage carrying Donny Trump's newfound favorite President, William McKinley and Secretary George B. Cortelyou, attempting to open the vehicle's door in an attempt to shake hands with the President..
In light of McKinley's later fate, this was later recalled by NYPD Commissioner Murphy.
Security wasn't what it now is. Drunks still are what they are now. Presidents have declined enormously in quality.
McKinley had served in the Civil War, which was why he was extremely reluctant to get engaged in a war with Spain. Trump hasn't served in anything. McKinley went on to a career in law after the Civil War. Trump, um, yeah whatever.
Today President McKinley is mostly remembered for his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, who rapidly eclipsed him. Roosevelt was the first great President of the 20th Century, and arguably one of only two great US Presidents of the 20th Century, the other being his cousin Franklin. There have been no great Presidents since FDR, although Truman was certainly a very good President.
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Samoa officially became an unwilling part of the German Empire. Wilhelm Solf became the first governor. Chief Mata'afa, who had fought against the Germans, was named as the paramount chief of the western Samoa colony and Kaiser Wilhelm II was designated as the Paramount King.
Of interest, Solf would die in 1936, his efforts to create a new moderate German political party after the rise of Nazism having failed, but his wife, Johanna, would form the Solf Circle resistance group and personally sheltered Jews along with one of her daughters. She was arrested and put in a concentration camp, but survived and passed away in 1954.
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The British lifted the four month siege of Ladysmith..
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Boer troops surrendered at Paardeberg.
Bayern Munich, the football club, was founded.
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Giving evidence, perhaps of a point raised elsewhere on this blogsite today, Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga, a wealthy widower the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Guardian Angels and Holy Family Hospice, passed away at age 57.
She was the mother of seven, and dedicated much of her life to the poor children of Bilboa, Spain.
Her beatification was celebrated on 30 September 1984.
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He remains one of the most significant personalities in Wyoming's history.
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British forces under Lord Kitchener charged Boer trenches at Paadeberg, sustaining 1,100 casualties of which 280 were deaths. The day was thereafter called "Bloody Sunday".
The attack in which the Boers head their fire until the British were within 100 meters of their trenches, was a failure.
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In a somewhat bizarre episode of the Spanish American War/Philippine Insurrection, on this day in 1899, the Spanish soldiers at Baler, who had held out for a year in a fortified church, were recognized as friend of the Filipino people and granted safe conduct.
A film about this event was earlier reviewed by us here:
1898: Our Last Men In the Philippines
Baler had been under siege from June 26, 1898, until June 2, 1899, which exceeded the period of time during which Spain was at war with the United States. The troops under siege had not realized that Spain had departed, and when informed, they refused to believe it and kept fighting. Ultimately, the besieging Filipinos became concerned for the garrison and began to supply it with food, beverages and cigarettes. An American expedition to relieve the garrison was launched and failed.
Finally, on June 2, 1899, the garrison surrendered.
The Spanish troops were lauded by Aguinaldo, but two Franciscan Priests who had been at the church, Fr. Félix Minaya and Fr. Juan López, plus a captured Yorktown seaman, George Arthur Venville, were kept as prisoners. The priests were freed when the US occupied the town on June 3, 1900 but Venville was executed by Filipino tribesmen.
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The Siege of Kimberley was lifted.
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British troops invaded the Orange Free State.
Elon Musk is probably still mad about it.
Congress approved the restoration of the USS Constitution, which was barely seaworthy.
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Governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt stated on this day:
In view of the continued statements in the press that I may be urged as a candidate for vice president and in view of the many letters that reach me advising me for and against such a course, it is proper for me to state definitely that under no circumstances could I or would I accept the nomination for the vice presidency.
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Vladimir Lenin was released from exile to the Siberian village of Shushenskoye. Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya travelled by horseback for 200 mi) to Ufa and arrived there on February 18. She sometimes appears to be a real crab in photographs, which is perhaps why Lenin took Inessa Fyodorovna Armand as a mistress.
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Lenin, a lawyer by trade, died in 1924 after his populist coup left Russia a freaking mess, which it still is. Krupskaya died in 1939. They helped bring in a horror that the world has never recovered from. Lenin, in retrospect, died well before he could really see what a horror he had made of things.
1,100 Spanish POWs from Philippine American War arrived to repatriation in Barcelona.
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The New York Times claimed that over 80,000 Utahans were preparing to move to the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming to take lands under the Desert Lands Act.
The Basin does have a large Mormon population, although 80,000 people did not move. It also has a fairly sizable Catholic population.
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President of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association Dwight F. Davis announced that he would donate a silver bowl to the nation that won the international tennis championship.
That's the Davis Cup.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.Many people, I'd note, grouse about their parents. I miss mine every day, and wish that I measured up to them. I do not.
A freak blizzard, if any blizzard is a freak, broke out in the Midwest in which the unseasonably warm temperature in Chicago was 62 °F (17 °C) at 7:00 am, and fell to 10 °F (−12 °C) by 11:00 pm. The drop in temperature stands as a record to this day.
The Boers attacked the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but were turned back.
The the States of Jersey permitted the use of the English language in its parliamentary debates for the first time, which is a crying shame.
French had been the language that was used until that time, and in my view, still should be.
Fiddlin' Joe Martin was born January 8, 1900 in Edwards, Mississippi.
Okinawan Toyama Kyuzo, from Kin Town, arrived in Hawaii. He was the first of many from Okinawa.
Actress Dorothy I. Adams was born in Hannah, North Dakota. She played Wilma Cameron's mother in the bittersweet The Best Years of Our Lives, one of the best movies of all time, and the best film about the tragic, and tragically flawed "Greatest Generation". It's hard to believe that she was only 46 years old when the film was made, which interestingly links in, a bit, to a comment made must yesterday.
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Empress Dowager Cixi of China issued an edict abolishing the teaching of the "new, depraved and erroneous subjects of the Western schools".
She was apparently a member of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus.
San Francisco lumber yard owners Wong Chut King became the first person in the US who is known to have fallen ill due to bubonic plague.
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