Mankulumana, chief adviser to Dinuzulu, king of the Zulu nation, led newly armed Zulu troops to assist the British Army against the Boers in the Vryheid district of the South African Republic.
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The United Kingdom extended the military court system over Boer guerillas.
The British were turning increasingly desperate, and harsh, in their effort to put down the ongoing resistance of Boer Bitter Enders.
William Carver of the Wild Bunch was killed in Jack Owens' Bakery in Sonora, Texas, by Sheriff E. S. "Lige" Briant and his deputies while attempting to effect an arrest for suspicion of murder.
Carver was one of the individuals in the famous Fort Worth portrait from 1900 and went by the nickname "News".
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Emilio Aguinaldo, Prisoner of War and formerly the president of the Philippine Republic, signed an oath of allegiance to the United States.
General Leonard Wood, the American military governor of Cuba, refused to certify the selection of Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso as the Mayor of Havana in spite of his having been chosen by the city council in a 12–10 vote.
Scottish laborers walked off the job seeking an eight hour day.
British Governor of Northern Nigeria Sir Frederick Lugard outlawed the future purchase or sale of slaves, the return of a runaway slave to his master.
Currently enslaved people and concubines were not freed and could continue to be sold.
It was Holy Monday on the new calendar.
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Lex Anteinternet: The Military and Alcohol. U.S. Army Beer 1943-1946: Patrons of a bar and grill in Washington D.C. in 1943. The man on the left is drinking a glass of beer, and it appears the woman is as well...
Footnotes
*There were other places to go, to be sure. Ft. Sill had a swimming pool open to privates, but I never went there. The one time I had on base free time when we could have gone, I had a horrible case of progressing pneumonia and no interest in going to a pool.
I did once go to the library, as odd as that may seem, simply because I was sort of tired of the intellectual quality of my stay at Ft. Sill and because I hoped it to be quiet. It was quiet, and very nice. I looked like a fish out of water there, however, and I simultaneously froze and fell asleep there. The freezing due to my having acclimated to the 100F+ Oklahoma summers and the sleep due to simply being exhausted.
General Nicolas Capistrano, leader of the Philippine army on Mindanao, surrendered to U.S. Army General William Kobbé, after Captain John J. Pershing arranged the meeting.
Gen. Capistrano was a successful lawyer in civilian life who would go on to a successful post war career in that field and in politics. Interestingly, he faded from public view after 1920 and the later details of his life, including the date of his death, are unknown.
Zulu warriors were armed in the Nqutu and Nkandhla districts of Zululand and placed under British command in a situation that effectively made them partisan rangers.
Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long terminated orders for the USS New York to use force against Morocco to enforce private American claims to property. The ship was redirected to the Philippines.
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Zululand was placed under martial law and orders given to supply the Zulus north of the Thukela with arms and ammunition in defense against the Boers.
Birmingham was hit by a devastating tornado.
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A small part of troops, including Filipino collaborators, captured Emilio Aguinaldo after deploying a ruse causing the collaborators to be admitted into Aguinaldo's camp.
The insurrection was already winding down, but Aguinaldo's capture would accelerate that.
Russia chose not to enforce a law which conscripted protesting students, which indeed would have been a bad move.
A law requiring the conscription of military age politicians and their children in the even of armed conflict lasing more than a week, however, would be a great idea.
France banned the sale of alcohol in overseas military posts.
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Philippine Insurrectionist on Panay began to surrender under orders from Ananías Diokno.
The RRS Discovery, a British National Antarctic Expedition ship was launched. She was the last wooden three masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom.
Nikola Tesla applied for the patent for "Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy" that being "a machine to capture the sun's cosmic rays and turn them into electricity".
Maine adopted a flag.
Engaging in a massive act of self delusion on behalf of the German Navy, Hubert von Rebeur-Paschwitz accompanied the ship SMS Vineta to Boston to scout out possible German landing sites for an American invasion.
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Louis Botha informed Lord Kitchener of the Boer rejection of British peace terms. The sticking points were British demands that blacks receive full citizenship and a rejection of full amnesty to Boer Leaders in the Cape Colony.
Gen. Mariano Trias surrendered to the U.S in the Philippines.
It was a Saturday.
American troops were ordered to withdraw from Beijing as the Boxer Rebellion was over, and we aren't an imperialist power.
African American woman Ballie Crutchfield was lynched as the mob could not find her brother, whom they wished to.
Her brother was sought in regard to a matter over the ownership of a wallet. Ms. Crutchfield was seized, shot in the back of the head, and thrown in a creek. No one was arrested for her murder.
The first Van Gogh retrospective was given for the late artist.
I'll be frank, I'm not that much of a Van Gogh fan.
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Former President Benjamin Harrison, 1889 to 1893, died at age 67 from pneumonia.
Almost all black African residents of Cape Town, South Africa, were forcibly removed by orders of John Gregory, the Chief Medical Officer of Britain's Cape Colony, for the ostensible purpose of controlling an outbreak of the bubonic plague and quarantined at the Matiland Plague Hospital at Uitvlugt.
The Russian Writers' Union for Mutual Aid was ordered permanently disbanded by Dmitry Sipyagin, the Minister of Internal Affairs, after officers of the group had participated in a political demonstration a week earlier.
Have you heard Trump's comments about the press?
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The era of major tourist hotels started in Hawaii, when the Moana Hotel opened on Waikiki Beach.
The hotel remains in business today.
Cpt. Ralph Van Deman started identity files for Filipino persons of interest, starting what is a basic intelligence methods. He'd go on to become the director of the United States Department of War's Military Intelligence Section. During World War Two, as a civilian, he was an ardent opponent of Japanese internment.
The tanker Atlas departed from Port Arthur, Texas, with 3,000 barrels of crude oil from the Spindletop oil fields, bound for the Standard Oil refineries in Philadelphia, marking the first shipments of Texas oil.
The United Kingdom rejected the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, as amended by the United States Senate, because the Senate voted to fortify any canal built across Central America between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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An instance of "blood rain" occurred in southern and central Italy, and Sicily.
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The Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated Leo Tolstoy. It was deserved, given his adoption of unconventional religious views.
The Oldsmobile plant was destroyed in a fire, which oddly enough would benefit the company as it was forced to rely on purchased parts, rather than manufacturing all of their own parts, massively dropping the price of their automobiles.
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