Baron Clemens von Ketteler, the German ambassador to China, was killed by Boxer En Hai as he and an aide went to the Chinese Foreign Ministry without their guards.
Chinese troops began a siege of the Peking Legation Quarter at 4:00 p.m., which was the evacuation deadline. Behind the quarter's walls were 900 foreigners, 523 defenders and 3,000 Chinese Christians.
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The Chinese government delivered an ultimatum in response to the attack on the Taku Forts to eleven ambassadors in the legation quarter demanding that all foreign residents, including diplomats, missionaries and their families leave Beijing by 4pm the following day. The demand accompanied a promise to provide troops for a safe exit.
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Chinese Empress (Tzu Hsi) Cixi decreed that Boxer rebels could not enter Beijing.
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The "Act to Provide a Government for the Territory of Hawaii" took effect formally ending Hawaiian sovereignty.
I may have had relatives living on Oahu at the time.
German embassy guards fired on Boxer rebels outside the legation quarter, killing twenty and sparking mass crowd reaction.
The first Bennett Cup auto race was run.
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Western diplomatic missions began violent reactions to Chinese Boxers on this day, starting with the German legation.
Violence started spreading against Chinese Christians.
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Japanese diplomat Sugiyama Akira was murdered by Imperial Chinese soldiers who dragged Akira from his carriage and hacked him to bits, then displayed his severed head at the railway station in Beijing.
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A multinational force departed Tianjin for Beijing to protect the citizens of their respective countries but only made it to Langfang before they had to detrain because of rail destruction. The troops would have to march the rest of the way.
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