Wednesday, October 30, 1901. Battle of Bakenlaagte.

Eastern Transvaal Boer Commandos under the command of General Louis Botha,overwhelmed the British Army No. 3 Flying Column, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Elliot Benson in the Battle of Bakenlaagte.  The battle against the specialized British unit resulted in the loss of 66 British troops dead, 165 wounded, and 120 taken prisoner.

The battle reflected a change in Boer tactics featuring a mounted charge with a close range dismount.

Dr. Emil von Behring was chosen for the first award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He had discovered the antitoxin to cure the disease of diphtheria and then applied the same principles of blood serum isolation to create a cure for tetanus.

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Sunday, October 29, 1911. Train wreck at Rock River.

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Wednesday, October 28, 1914. Collapsing Maritz Rebellion.

Rebel Boer units were attacked by the South African Army, forcing Boer general Christian Frederick Beyers to disperse his forces.

The Germans suspended attacks at Ypres to regroup.

Exhaustion and language difficulties frustrated a British effort at Neuve-Chapelle.

French troops held at Armentières in spite of a two day German artillery bombardment.

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Tuesday, October 27, 1914. Massive Central Powers losses in the East.

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Monday, October 12, 1914. The trial of the Serbian conspirators.

The trial of Serbian conspirators who had worked to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand commenced.   Gavrilo Princip stated:

I am a Yugoslav nationalist and I believe in unification of all South Slavs in whatever form of state and that it be free of Austria ... By means of terror.

The Germans took Ghent.

The French and British took back the Mont des Cats.

The Union of South Africa declared martial law in response to the Maritz Rebellion.

Boston won game three of the World Series.

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Sunday October 11, 1914. Front line stabilization sets in.

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Saturday, February 4, 1911. Deadlocks.

A Berryman cartoon for this day in 1911.

Persia's Minister of Finance, Sani al-Dowleh, was killed in Tehran by two Armenian assassins who were Russian subjects, and whose legation provided them with sanctuary.

Francisco Madero, who was still in Texas at the time, offered Dr. Ira J. Bush a commission as the chief surgeon with the rank of colonel, which he accepted.

Former Boer General Piet Cronjé and advocate of attrition warfare, died at age 74.  Because of his tactical viewpoints, he was shunned by the surviving Boer officers.  And, indeed, that was not a wise strategy, particularly for the Boers whose numbers and nature favored mobility.

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Friday, February 3, 1911. Dangers of nature.

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Thursday, June 13, 1901. Murderous logic.

Boer General P. H. Kritzinger authorized Boer troops to shoot any blacks who were riding a horse without the permission of an employer.  The illegal order was based on the concept that such Cape Colony blacks must be spies.

The London School of economics was incorporated.

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Wednesday, June 12, 1901. Corrido de Gregorio Cortez

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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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Tuesday, April 2, 1901. News Carver meets his end.

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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Monday, April 1, 1901. Aguinaldo consents.

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Friday, February 22, 1901. Interrupted Boers.

Forces under Gen. John French intercepted a 5,000 man party of Boers under Christiaan de Wet on their way towards Prieska 

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Thursday, February 21, 1901. No expansion in China.

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Sunday, February 10, 1901. Boers invade Cape Colony.

Boer General Christiaan de Wet's troop invaded the Cape Colony.

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Friday, February 8, 1901. Russian overreach.

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Wednesday, June 6, 1901 Joe Boot escapes.

Boer commandos cut the Delagoa Bay Railroad thirty miles from the Portuguese West Africa capital, Lourenço Marques (Maputo, Angola).

The Eight-Nation Alliance demand that nine Chinese officials be executed for crimes committed during the Boxer Rebellion.

Three were already dead.

Joe Boot, likely a false name, became one of the few prisoners to escape the Yuma Territorial Prison.  At the time the prison trustee had served only two years of a thirty year sentence for robbing a stage with female robber Pearl Heart.

He was never found.

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Tuesday, February 5, 1901. What we wanted.

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Saturday, December 15, 1900. Magaliesberg

Boers at Magaliesberg captured 573 British troops.

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Friday, December 14, 1900. Quantum Mechanics.

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Tuesday, July 31, 1900. Things Commonwealth.

Voters of Western Australia approved the Constitution of Australia, allowing them to join the Commonwealth of Australia.

Boer commandos surrendered to British troops near Clarens.

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Sunday, July 29, 1900. Gaetano Bresci killed King Umberto of Italy and brought Theodore Roosevelt to power.

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.

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Saturday, March 31, 1900. Sanna's Post.

Boer forces under Christiaan de Wet attacked at Sanna's Post, taking 400 British POWS and cutting off the water supply to Bloemfontein, which resulted in the spread of typhus. 

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Friday, March 30, 1900. Child and Female Labor.

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Tuesday, March 27, 1900. Gen. Joubert dies.

South Africa's best general, Piet Joubert, died of peritonitis at age 68.

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Sunday, March 25, 1900. Socialist Party founded in United States.

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Tuesday, February 27, 1900. Surrender at Paardeberg.

Boer troops surrendered at Paardeberg.

Bayern Munich, the football club, was founded.

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February 23, 1900. The passing of Blessed Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga.

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Sunday, February 18, 1900. Bloody Sunday.

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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Thursday, February 15, 1900. Siege of Kimberley lifted.

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Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Battle of Spion Kop.

Boers at Spion Kop.  Kop is a Boer word for "head".

An an 8,000 Boer force defeated a 25,000 British contingent in the Battle of Spion Kop.  The British took 243 dead and 1,250 wounded, and 300 captured.  The Boers 68 killed and 267 wounded.

The assault was badly made by the British, failing to appreciate the nature of modern rifle fire.

A council of the Chinese "Grand Councillors, Grand Secretaries and Presidents of the Board" agreed that the Guangxu Emperor should abdicate. P'u Ch'un, age 14, was announced as heir apparent to the throne.

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Sunday, January 21, 1900. Frontier types and technology.

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Saturday, January 6, 1900. Boer War events.

For the first time in centuries, the sword of the Gorsedd bards was unsheathed at Merionethshire in Wales and the chief bard "invoked the blessing of God on British arms in South Africa, and announced that the sword would not be sheathed again till the triumph of the forces of righteousness over the hordes of evil".

Boer troops fighting at Ladysmith attempted a raid on British positions resulting in 1,000 British casualties.

The German ship Herzog was seized by the HMS Thetis on suspicition that it was carrying supplies to the Boers, which it was not.

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January 3, 1900. No giggling.

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Friday, December 15, 1899. British defeat at Colenso.

The British lost 1,097 men at Colenso, the their such serious loss in one week.

Boer commandos with their sights set on long range at Colenso.

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Wednesday, December 13, 1899. British victory in the Cape Colony.

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