Carrie Nation performed her first act of destruction in a bar, this one an illegally operating one in Kiowa Kansas.
She attributed her actions to Devine inspiration.
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Showing posts with label 1900. Show all posts
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
Wednesday, June 6, 1900. A busy day in Washington.
President William McKinley signed into law the federal charter for the American Red Cross.
Congress enacted a civil and judicial code for Alaska, set the capital at Juneau and created a territorial government. It also approved the 1892 Agreement with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache and funded the reinterment of 267 Southern soldiers from Northern grounds to a special section of the Arlington National Cemetery.
A lion dragged the Superintendent of Police in British East Africa out of a rail car while he was sleeping, killed him, and ate him.
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Monday, June 4, 1900. Battle of Makahambus Hill.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Monday, June 4, 1900. Battle of Makahambus Hill.
A U.S. on the Filipino occupied fort at Makahambus Hill resulted in an American defeat.
A small unit action by most standards, the skirmish is regarded as the first Filipino victory of the Philippine Insurrection.
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Friday, June 1, 1900. Pretoria surrendered to the British.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Friday, June 1, 1900. Pretoria surrendered to the British.
Pretoria surrendered to the British.
When I was in grade school we learned that song.
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Thursday, May 31, 1900. Marching into Beijing.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boxer Rebellion, China, Christianity, Italy, Japan, religion, Russia, Scotland, United States, United States Marine Corps
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Thursday, May 31, 1900. Marching into Beijing.
337 Western troops from the US, Italy, Japan and Russia arrived in Beijing. The entry was not opposed, but not welcome.
The governing body of the Free Church of Scotland voted 592 to 29, to unite with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland creating the United Free Church of Scotland.
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Sunday, May 27, 1900. The Vietnamese Martyrs.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1980s, 1988, Apostolic Christianity, Catholic, Christianity, Pope Leo XIII, Pope St. John Paul II, religion, Vietnam
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Monday, May 28, 1900. Annexing the Orange Free State.
The British Empire annexed the Orange Free State.
A total eclipse of the sun darkened a path that ran through Mexico and the southeastern United States and on to Spain.
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Sunday, May 27, 1900. The Vietnamese Martyrs.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1980s, 1988, Apostolic Christianity, Catholic, Christianity, Pope Leo XIII, Pope St. John Paul II, religion, Vietnam
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Sunday, May 27, 1900. The Vietnamese Martyrs.
Pope Leo XIII beatified sixty-four Vietnamese Martyrs. The Vietnamese Martyrs, including 53 additional individuals later beatified, were canonized on June 19, 1988.
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Saturday, May 26, 1900. Battle of Palonegro.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Saturday, May 26, 1900. Battle of Palonegro.
The Battle of Palonegro ended in a victory for the Conservative forces in Columbia's Thousand Day's War.
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Friday. May 25, 1900. The Lacey Act signed into law.
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Friday. May 25, 1900. The Lacey Act signed into law.
The Lacy Act was signed into law by President McKinley . It made it a Federal offense to ship "wild animals and birds take in defiance of existing state laws" across state lines."
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Thursday, May 24, 1900. A battleship to China.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, boats and ships, Boxer Rebellion, Catholic, China, Christianity, Education, Holidays, Marriage, Memorial Day, Pope Leo XIII, religion, U.S. Navy
Monday, March 24, 2025
Saturday, March 24, 1900. No smoking.
Willis L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, issued Instruction No. 51 declaring that "The smoking of cigarettes in the offices of the Weather Bureau is hereby prohibited. Officials in charge of stations will rigidly enforce this order, and will also include in their semiannual confidential reports information as to those of their assistants who smoke cigarettes outside of office hours."
It's interesting that it seems to have been limited to cigarettes.
Press Clay Southworth, 14, shot the last wild passenger pigeon near his farm in Sargents, Ohio,
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Friday, March 23, 1900. Blood Types.
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Friday, June 30, 1899. Safe passage for Spanish troops at Baler.
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 surviving Spanish troops upon their return to Spain.
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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Monday, June 26, 1899. Birth of Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia.
Labels: 1890s, 1899, 1910s, 1918, Christianity, Communism, Monarchy, Orthodox, Personalities, Protestant, religion, Russia, Russian Civil War, Russian Revolution
Wednesday, May 24, 2000
Thursday, May 24, 1900. A battleship to China.
The USS Oregon arrived in China at Taku Forts to protect American citizens.
Pope Leo XIII canonized Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719) and Rita of Cascia (1381–1457). de la Salle was the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and is the patron saint of teachers.Saint Rita of Cascia, the mother of two and the wife of an abusive husband is one of the patron saints for domestic problems.
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Wednesday, May 23, 1900. Sgt. William Havey Carney.
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Wednesday, May 23, 1900. Sgt. William Havey Carney.
African American Sgt. William Harvey Carney, 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 18, 1863.
While the first Medal of Honor was awarded to a black soldier in 1864, the 1863 action at the assault on Ft. Wagner, South Carolina, is the earliest date for which such an award was conferred on an African American.
The Associated Press was incorporated.
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Tuesday, May 22, 1900. Player piano.
Monday, May 22, 2000
Tuesday, May 22, 1900. Player piano.
The first patent for a player piano was issued.
An explosion at the Cumnock Mining Company, near Sanford, North Carolina, killed 22 coal miners.
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Monday, May 21, 1900. Ultimatum to the Empress Dowager
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boxer Rebellion, China, France, Germany, Japan, Qing Dynasty United States, United Kingdom
Sunday, May 21, 2000
Monday, May 21, 1900. Ultimatum to the Empress Dowager
An ultimatum to the Empress Dowager Cixi of China to arrest and punish Boxers was issued by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan)
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Thursday, May 17, 1900. The Siege of Mafeking broken.
Wednesday, May 17, 2000
Thursday, May 17, 1900. The Siege of Mafeking broken.
The Siege of Mafeking was broken. It had started on October 13, 1899.
Robert Baden-Powell had lead the defense of the city. He'd shortly thereafter form the Boy Scouts.
Chinese Christians were murdered at Kaolo.
The first copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, came off the press. The first run of 10,000 copies had been sold prior to publication.
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Wednesday, May 16, 1900. Milk.
Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Wednesday, May 16, 1900. Milk.
Chicago's Chief Milk Inspector, Thomas Grady, announced plans to ban dangerous additives from milk, including the preservative formalin.
"Formalin, the chemical used in milk preservatives, will kill a cat", he told reporters. "What will it do to a child?"
Prior to pasteurization milk posed significant health risks which have ironically been revived with the raw milk movement.
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Tuesday, May 1, 1900. Russian rumblings.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Arabia, Coal, Disaster, Kingdom of Hejaz, Labor unrest, Mining, Ottoman Empire, Puerto Rico, Railroads, Russia, Spanish American War, Syria, Utah
Monday, May 1, 2000
Tuesday, May 1, 1900. Russian rumblings.
The first mass protest of Russian workers occurred in Kharkov.
Over 200 miners were killed in the Scofield Mine disaster in Utah.
US military governance of Puerto Rico ended.
Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid issued an imperial edict for the construction of the Hejaz railway, to link Damascus to Mecca and Medina.
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Monday, April 30, 1900. Casey Jones
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Disaster, Folk Music, Hawaii, Music, Personalities, Railroads, William McKinley
Sunday, April 30, 2000
Monday, April 30, 1900. Casey Jones
Illinois Central Railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones managed to slow a passenger train he was driving down sufficiently so that he was the only one killed in a collision with two stalled freight trains at Vaughan, Mississippi.
The event was memorialized in the Balled of Casey Jones.
From Uncle Mike:
April 30, 1900: The Legend of Casey Jones
President McKinley signed into law "An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii" making citizens of Hawaii citizens of the United States.
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Sunday, April 29, 1900. Robbing the Tipton train.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Crime, Railroads, The Wild Bunch, Tipton Wyoming, Union Pacific Railroad, Wyoming
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