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Thursday, November 5, 2026

Tuesday, November 5, 1901. Ben Kilpatrick arrested. First U.S. Automotive Hill Climb, Japanese-UK Alliance, French Navy at Lesbos.

St. Louis police arrested Wild Bunch member Ben Kilpatrick in St. Louis for passing stolen money.

He'd be convicted and serve prison time until 1911, after which he was released and resumed his criminal career  He was killed during a robbery by a Southern Pacific Express messenger who clubbed him with a mallett during a March 1912 train robbery near Sanderson, Texas.

Kilpatrick's brains blew out of his head and stained the walls of the rail car.

The first automotive hill climb in the US occurred at West Orange, New Jersey.  Interestingly, such events were already popular in Europe.

The British cabinet voted in favor of a Japanese alliance with Japan.

The French Navy seized the Turkish Island of Midilli (Lesbos) in order to compel the Ottoman Empire to pay debts owed to France.

Last edition:

Monday, November 4, 1901. No dissing the Philippine Commission and the Wandervogel.