Mankulumana, chief adviser to Dinuzulu, king of the Zulu nation, led newly armed Zulu troops to assist the British Army against the Boers in the Vryheid district of the South African Republic.
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General Nicolas Capistrano, leader of the Philippine army on Mindanao, surrendered to U.S. Army General William Kobbé, after Captain John J. Pershing arranged the meeting.
Gen. Capistrano was a successful lawyer in civilian life who would go on to a successful post war career in that field and in politics. Interestingly, he faded from public view after 1920 and the later details of his life, including the date of his death, are unknown.
Zulu warriors were armed in the Nqutu and Nkandhla districts of Zululand and placed under British command in a situation that effectively made them partisan rangers.
Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long terminated orders for the USS New York to use force against Morocco to enforce private American claims to property. The ship was redirected to the Philippines.
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Zululand was placed under martial law and orders given to supply the Zulus north of the Thukela with arms and ammunition in defense against the Boers.
Birmingham was hit by a devastating tornado.
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