Thursday, September 14, 1911. Stolypin shot.

Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin was shot in the stomach by Dmitry Bogrov, a young Ukranian Jewish lawyer, at a play.  He would die four days later.

Bogrov had been an anarchist turned informant.  He had recently started practicing law in St. Petersburg where he was horrified by Russian pogroms. 

Ironically, Stolypin was a reformer.

El Primer Congreso Mexicanista convened at Laredo, Texas under the leadership of Nicasio Idar to advocate for civil rights for Hispanic citizens. The convention approved the formation of La Gran Liga de Beneficincia y Proteccion.

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Wednesday, September 13, 1911. That high lonesome sound.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Bluegrass, China, Chinese 1911 Revolution, Music, Personalities, Qing Dynasty

Monday, June 19, 1911. Never going back to Mexico and La Agrupación Protectora Mexicana.

Porfirio Díaz, now in exile in France, stated he would not return to Mexico even if asked to do so.

And in fact, he was never asked to do so, and he remains, now passed on, in Paris.

Antonio Gómez, age 14, was lynched in Thorndale, Milam County, Texas.  The victim had killed a white Texan in an altercation.  This particular murder was instrumental in the creation of the Mexican American mutual aid society, La Agrupación Protectora Mexicana.

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Sunday, June 18, 1911. Human remains on the USS Maine, Detroit Tigers make comeback.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, baseball, boats and ships, Cuba (Havana), It was because of the Spanish American War, U.S. Navy

Thursday, November 3, 1910. La Matanza

Twenty-year-old ranch hand Antonio Rodriguez was lynched by being burned alive by a mob in Rocksprings Texas after having been accused of murdering a "white woman".  His murder in Texas sparked a reaction in Mexico, which was on the verge of revolution as it was, leading to boycotts on U.S. businesses and partially leading to the Plan of San Diego.

President Taft denied that the US was considering annexting Panama.

Interesting, isn't it?  The U.S. was in its high colonial era, having just beaten Span in the Spanish American War, and yet it didn't annext Cuba and it wasn't threatening to annex Panama, where it had constructed the canal.  Oh for the days when Republican Presidents weren't threatening to annex everything in site.

Of course, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft weren't demented narcissists.

Former Democratic Mayor of New York City, the city's second Roman Catholic mayor, died at age 55.

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Tuesday, November 1, 1910. The Pale of Settlement.

Labels: 1880s, 1884, 1910, 1910s, Belarus, Czar Nicholas II, Judaism, Poland, Russia, The Pale of Settlement, Ukraine