Huang Fu became the acting President of the Republic of China.
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The 1899 San Ciriaco Hurricane made landfall in Puerto Rico, leaving 250,000 people homeless.
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The San Ciraco Hurrican, the longest lived Atlantic hurricane of all time and the third longest lived tropical storm in recorded history, was first observed.
It would soon prove to be highly deadly.
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The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania declared its autocephalous nature at the conclusion of a conference. That status would be recognized by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937.
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Today there are seventeen autocephalous, i.e., self-governing, Orthodox Churches, with the most recent one to be granted that status being the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The topic can be a bit controversial in a larger Apostolic Christian sense, as the Catholic Church, which is also comprised of self-governing churches, and which by far makes up the largest body of Christians on Earth, does not recognize the theological claim of the Orthodox Churches that occupant of the Chair of St. Peter is the head of all the Apostolic Christian churches. For its part, Orthodoxy recognizes the legitimacy of the Chair of St. Peter, but holds its occupant to be the "First among Equals". The Catholic Church recognizes the legitimacy of the Orthodox Churches, but disputes its position on that point.
Orthodox Churches that obtain autocephalous status must do so through the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is the head of the "Mother Church".
The Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico formed through the union of a number of similarly minded parties. Its goal was and remains independence for Puerto Rico.
