The 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Australian troops, were attacked at Steenkoolspruit and sustained 18 men killed and 42 wounded, their biggest loss of life during the Boer War.
Cuba voted to become an American protectorate.
Gregorio Cortez shot and killed Karnes County Sheriff W. T. "Brack" Morris, who had fired in the gunfight first, after a gunfight erupted from a mistranslation of an interrogation between the two men over a missing horse, with the issue the Spanish distinction between a stud and a mare. Cortez fled on foot and later killed Gonzales County Sheriff Robert M. Glover and posse member Henry J. Schabel two days later.
He would later be captured thirteen days later and sentenced to life imprisonment. Some charges were reversed on appeal and he was pardoned in 1913. He became a folk hero in the region with both a song and a movie made about him.
