Saturday, March 24, 1900. No smoking.

Willis L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, issued Instruction No. 51 declaring that "The smoking of cigarettes in the offices of the Weather Bureau is hereby prohibited. Officials in charge of stations will rigidly enforce this order, and will also include in their semiannual confidential reports information as to those of their assistants who smoke cigarettes outside of office hours."

It's interesting that it seems to have been limited to cigarettes.

Press Clay Southworth, 14, shot the last wild passenger pigeon near his farm in Sargents, Ohio,

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Friday, March 23, 1900. Blood Types.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Health, Medicine, Satire, Science

Friday, March 23, 1900. Blood Types.

Dr. Karl Landsteiner's published his report on his discovery of a process for classification of the four blood groups under the ABO blood group system (as A, B, AB and O), "Zur Kenntnis der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe".

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. probably will declare it a fib and order up a healthy bowl of beef tallow.

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Saturday, March 17, 1900. Abolishing slavery on Guam.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Army, Art, Guam, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines, Slavery

Saturday, March 17, 1900. Abolishing slavery on Guam.

The US abolished slavery on Guam.

US forces landed at Tagbilaran in the Philippines.

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Friday, March 16, 1900. McKinley moves towards Philippine independence.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Donald Trump, Personalities, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines, The Second Trump Administration, William Howard Taft, William McKinley

Friday, March 16, 1900. McKinley moves towards Philippine independence.

The Second Philippine Commission was formed with McKinley appointed William H. Taft at its head.  The commission was instructed by McKinley to work towards successful independence.

There's yet another lesson for claimed Chief Executive Trump, who has totally failed to grasp the thought behind President McKinley's tariff policies, which were to wipe out a government surplus by depressing trade.  McKinley wasn't an imperialist and was attempting to bring a country to independence even while we were fighting its independence movement.

McKinley, it might be noted, was an intelligent man, not rich, who had served his country in wartime.

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Tuesday, March 13, 1900. Bloemfontein

Location: Bloemfontein, South Africa

Tuesday, March 13, 1900. Bloemfontein

The House passed the Gold Standard Act.

The British marched into Bloemfontein.

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Monday, March 12, 1900. Surrender of the Orange Free State.Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boer War, British Army, Orange Free State

Monday, March 12, 1900. Surrender of the Orange Free State.

General John French gave the leaders of the Orange Free State 11 hours to surrender, which they did.

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Wednesday, March 7, 1900. Withdrawing some troops.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines, William McKinley

Wednesday, March 7, 1900. Withdrawing some troops.

President McKinley ordered the withdrawal of some of the troops in the Philippines.

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Tuesday, March 6, 1900. The Gold Standards Act passes the Senate.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Currency, Disaster, Donald Trump, Mining, Satire, The Gold Standard, West Virginia, William McKinley

Tuesday, March 6, 1900. The Gold Standards Act passes the Senate.

The Senate passed the Gold Standard Act.  It's be signed by President McKinley and go into effect on March 14.

Wait!  Donny loves William B.  Has he heard of this yet?

A mine explosion at the Red Ash Mine at Fayette County, West Virginia, killed forty six miners.

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Saturday, March 3, 1900. A drunk and William B. McKinley.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 2020s, 2025, Donald Trump, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Philippine Insurrection, Spanish American War, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley

Saturday, March 3, 1900. A drunk and William B. McKinley.

From the March 3, 1900 Colliers.

A drunken spectator twice approached the carriage carrying Donny Trump's newfound favorite President, William McKinley and Secretary George B. Cortelyou, attempting to open the vehicle's door in an attempt to shake hands with the President..

In light of McKinley's later fate, this was later recalled by NYPD Commissioner Murphy.

Security wasn't what it now is.  Drunks still are what they are now.  Presidents have declined enormously in quality.

McKinley had served in the Civil War, which was why he was extremely reluctant to get engaged in a war with Spain.  Trump hasn't served in anything.  McKinley went on to a career in law after the Civil War.  Trump, um, yeah whatever.

Today President McKinley is mostly remembered for his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, who rapidly eclipsed him.  Roosevelt was the first great President of the 20th Century, and arguably one of only two great US Presidents of the 20th Century, the other being his cousin Franklin.  There have been no great Presidents since FDR, although Truman was certainly a very good President.

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Thursday, March 1, 1900. Samoa

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1954, Colonialism, German Empire, German Resistance Movements, Germany, Heroes, Nazi Germany, Samoa

Thursday, March 1, 1900. Samoa

Samoa officially became an unwilling part of the German Empire. Wilhelm Solf became the first governor. Chief Mata'afa, who had fought against the Germans, was named as the paramount chief of the western Samoa colony and Kaiser Wilhelm II was designated as the Paramount King.

Of interest, Solf would die in 1936, his efforts to create a new moderate German political party after the rise of Nazism having failed, but his wife, Johanna, would form the Solf Circle resistance group and personally sheltered Jews along with one of her daughters.  She was arrested and put in a concentration camp, but survived and passed away in 1954.

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Wednesday, February 28, 1900. Relieving Ladysmith.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boer War, British Army, Siege of Ladysmith

Wednesday, February 28, 1900. Relieving Ladysmith.

The British lifted the four month siege of Ladysmith..

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Tuesday, February 27, 1900. Surrender at Paardeberg.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boer Armies, Boer War, Germany, Soccer, Sports

Tuesday, February 27, 1900. Surrender at Paardeberg.

Boer troops surrendered at Paardeberg.

Bayern Munich, the football club, was founded.

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February 23, 1900. The passing of Blessed Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Education, Personalities, Spain, The rich and the poor

February 23, 1900. The passing of Blessed Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga.

Giving evidence, perhaps of a point raised elsewhere on this blogsite today, Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga, a wealthy widower the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Guardian Angels and Holy Family Hospice, passed away at age 57.

She was the mother of seven, and dedicated much of her life to the poor children of Bilboa, Spain.  

Her beatification was celebrated on 30 September 1984.

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Monday, February 20, 1900. Death of Chief Washakie

Labels: 1790s, 1798, 1800s, 1810, 1810s, 1870s, 1876, 1900, 1900s, Chief Washakie, Personalities, Powder River Expedition, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

Monday, February 20, 1900. Death of Chief Washakie

 

Chief Washakie died of advanced old age.

Washakie was born between 1798 and 1810.  He was a respected leader of the Shoshone throughout much of the 19th Century, and an ally of European Americans.  He contributed warriors to the Powder River Expedition in 1876.  He was responsible for the creation of the Wind River Reservation.  In 1880 he converted to Mormonism, and then in 1897 to the Episcopal faith.  He was married twice, once to a fellow Shoshone, and after her death, to a Crow woman.

He remains one of the most significant personalities in Wyoming's history.

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Sunday, February 18, 1900. Bloody Sunday.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Battle of Paardeberg, Boer Armies, Boer War, British Army, Horatio Herbert Kitchener

Sunday, February 18, 1900. Bloody Sunday.

British forces under Lord Kitchener charged Boer trenches at Paadeberg, sustaining 1,100 casualties of which 280 were deaths.  The day was thereafter called "Bloody Sunday".

The attack in which the Boers head their fire until the British were within 100 meters of their trenches, was a failure.

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Thursday, February 15, 1900. Siege of Kimberley lifted.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boer War

Thursday, February 15, 1900. Siege of Kimberley lifted.

The Siege of Kimberley was lifted.

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Wednesday, February 14, 1900. Invading the Orange Free State.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, boats and ships, Boer War, British Army, Orange Free State

Wednesday, February 14, 1900. Invading the Orange Free State.

British troops invaded the Orange Free State.

Elon Musk is probably still mad about it.

Congress approved the restoration of the USS Constitution, which was barely seaworthy.

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Monday, February 12, 1900. Not Running for VP.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Politics, Theodore Roosevelt

Monday, February 12, 1900. Not Running for VP.

Governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt stated on this day:

In view of the continued statements in the press that I may be urged as a candidate for vice president and in view of the many letters that reach me advising me for and against such a course, it is proper for me to state definitely that under no circumstances could I or would I accept the nomination for the vice presidency.

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Sunday, February 11, 1900. The Lenins take a journey.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1920s, 1924, 1930s, 1939, Philippine Insurrection, Russia, Spanish American War, USSR, Vladimir Lenin

Sunday, February 11, 1900. The Lenins take a journey.

Vladimir Lenin was released from exile to the Siberian village of Shushenskoye. Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya travelled by horseback for 200 mi) to Ufa and arrived there on February 18.  She sometimes appears to be a real crab in photographs, which is perhaps why Lenin took Inessa Fyodorovna Armand as a mistress.

Krupskaya looking pissed off.  Maybe that's why Vlad took a mistress.

Lenin, a lawyer by trade, died in 1924 after his populist coup left Russia a freaking mess, which it still is. Krupskaya died in 1939.  They helped bring in a horror that the world has never recovered from.  Lenin, in retrospect, died well before he could really see what a horror he had made of things.

1,100 Spanish POWs from Philippine American War arrived to repatriation in Barcelona.

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Saturday. February 10, 1900. Relocating to the Big Horn Basin.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Agriculture, Big Horn Basin Wyoming, Desert Lands Act, Homesteads, Mormon, religion, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming (Big Horn Basin)

Saturday. February 10, 1900. Relocating to the Big Horn Basin.

The New York Times claimed that over 80,000 Utahans were preparing to move to the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming to take lands under the Desert Lands Act.

The Basin does have a large Mormon population, although 80,000 people did not move.  It also has a fairly sizable Catholic population.

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Friday, February 9, 1900. The Davis Cup.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Food, Jazz, Music, Personalities, Sports, Tennis, Women

Friday, February 9, 1900. The Davis Cup.

President of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association Dwight F. Davis announced that he would donate a silver bowl to the nation that won the international tennis championship.

That's the Davis Cup.

American player Dwight Davis  in 1900 with the trophy he committed to build

Both of my parents were very good tennis players, I might add.  My mother was particularly good, and it ran in her family.  My grandmother's dying words were that "Billy "x" sure can play tennis", speaking of her husband.  She was nearly 100 years old at the time.

My daughter is also an excellent tennis player.

I'm not. It's one of my many failings in life.  I mean that sincerely. Not the most serious one, but one of them.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Many people, I'd note, grouse about their parents.  I miss mine every day, and wish that I measured up to them.  I do not.

The Hershey Bar, which I love, was introduced.

Suffragist, and abolitionist Eliza Seaman Leggett died.

Walter Page,  jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, was born.

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Thursday, February 8, 1900. Freak blizzards, Failed Boer attacks, Je me souviens, Okinawan legacy.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1946 at the movies, actors and actresses, Boer War, Chicago Illinois, Ethnicities, Hawaii, Illinois (Chicago), Immigration, Je me souviens, Jersey, Movies, Music, The Blues, United Kingdom, Weather