The Army issued specifications for types and supplies of heating stoves and cooking ranges for the first time.
A company of forty Texas Rangers left Laredo ,Texas for the Nueces Strip with orders to find, kill or capture John King Fisher, the leader of a band of cattle rustlers
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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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Francisco I. Madero crossed into Mexico from Texas somewhere between Laredo and Eagle Pass at 6:00 p.m. with ten men and 100 rifles in order to start an armed insurrection against the sitting Mexican government.
Upon crossing, he found only ten additional men, and then returned to Texas to regroup.
It was, nonetheless, the beginning of the Mexican Revolution and it is celebrated today as Revolution Day in Mexico.
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Leo Tolstoy, age 82, died.
Gregorio Cortez, betrayed by a friend, was captured without incident, near Laredo, Texas. the friend, Jesus Gonzalez, received a $1,000 reward.
A monument was placed on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls to Laura Second, an American born immigrant to Canada who traveled twenty miles to warn the British of an impending American attack.
Contrary to what Americans generally imagine, many Americans retained strong British loyalties in the 1810s and quite a few were sympathetic to the British cause.
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