The Wright Brothers began untethered glider flight experiments at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Monday, October 16, 2000
Tuesday, October 16, 1900. No spheres of influence in China.
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The United Kingdom and Germany signed an agreement in London, providing that they would oppose the partition of China into spheres of influence.
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Monday, October 15, 1900. Cancer questionnaire.
Sunday, October 15, 2000
Monday, October 15, 1900. Cancer questionnaire.
Questionnaires were sent to every physician in Germany in the first attempt to make a study on the prevalence of cancer.
Frontier Battalion Texas Ranger Lieutenant T. L. Fuller was murdered in an Orange, Texas barber shop. He'd be the last member of the Frontier Battalion killed in the line of duty, as it was disbanded in 1901, there no longer being a frontier.
North Dakota politician Alexander McKenzie was arrested in Alaska on a scheme to dominate the territory's gold fields.
Mark Twain returned to the US after ten years in Europe.
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Tuesday, October 12, 1915. The execution of Edith Cavell.
Labels: 1880s, 1885, 1890, 1890s, 1910s, 1915, 1915 World Series, baseball, Belgium, Knights of Columbus, Mormon, Personalities, polyandry, polygamy, Porfirio Díaz, religion, the spoken word, Theodore Roosevelt
Friday, October 13, 2000
Saturday, October 13, 1900. Two Army physicians meet and end up saving the lives of millions.
Major General Leonard Wood, U.S. Military Governor of Cuba and a physician met with Major Walter Reed, U.S. Army surgeon, and authorized further funding of experiments to establish that yellow fever was spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. probably disputes that. Probably Tylenol causes yellow fever.
Anyhow, while Secretary of Defense Hegseth may be upset with the Army being "woke", this wokeness lead to one of the most significant medical developments in history.
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Friday, October 12, 1900. The USS Holland commissioned.
Thursday, October 12, 2000
Friday, October 12, 1900. The USS Holland commissioned.
The USS Holland, the first submarine of the U.S. Navy, was commissioned
The boat was armed with 1 × 17.7 in (450 mm) "18-in" torpedo tube (3 torpedoes) and 1 × 8 in (200 mm) dynamite gu, the muzzle of which can be seen in the photo above. One of seven member of the Plunger Class, she was doomed to rapid obsolescence and decommissioned in 1905. She was not broken up, however, and is a museum ship today..
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Thursday, October 11, 1900. Li Hongzhang, the Viceroy of Zhili, arrived in Beijing to negotiate terms of peace on behalf of China's Imperial Government, with the Eight-Nation Alliance. He was escorted by Russian troops.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Boxer Rebellion, Diplomacy, Eight Nation Alliance, Imperial Russian Army, Qing Dynasty
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Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Wednesday, October 10, 1900. Glider No. 1 damaged.
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Wright Glider No. 1 was damaged in a test when a 30 mph gust damaged the craft while itw was tethered to a derrick for an experimental flight.
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Tuesday, October 9, 1900. Auto 5.
Monday, October 9, 2000
Tuesday, October 9, 1900. Auto 5.
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John M. Browning was granted a patent for what would become the "self loading" Auto 5 shotgun, which would go into production in 1902.
A phenomenally successful shotgun, it blazed the trail for all later semi automatics. It became so popular that Browning had trouble ceasing to offer it in its catalog even after it desired to do so. The shotgun was manufactured in Belgium for Browning and also offered in the United States by Remington, as the Model 11. Remington's production of Browning's design ceased in 1947, but FN's for Browning carried on until moved to the Japanese firm Miroku in 1975. In 1998 full production finally ceased, with FN carrying on with commemoratives for one final year.
Primarily a hunting weapon, you'll oddly see a lot of inquiries on the net today about whether it saw military use. It did, but mostly as a training weapons. As great as it was, it's action was not suitable for combat conditions, although you'll occasionally see some that were used as police riot guns.
It still has a huge following.
Blog Mirror: Browning Auto 5 Shotgun Review: Still One of the Greatest Semiautos of All Time
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Monday, October 8, 1900. Annexation of the Cook Islands.
Sunday, October 8, 2000
Monday, October 8, 1900. Annexation of the Cook Islands.
The British Empire annexed the Cook Islands.
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The islands became a territory of New Zealand in 1949, which in turn granted them self governing status in 1965
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Friday, October 6, 2000
Saturday, October 6, 1900. Orange.
The flag of the Orange Free State.
The Orange Free State was officially annexed to the British Empire and became the unwilling Orange River Colony.
A short lived rebellion broke out in Huizhou, China, after a call for revolution by Sun Yat-sen.
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Wednesday, October 3, 1900. Prime Minister released, novelist born.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1930s, 1937, 1938, Modernist, Nazi Germany, Philippines, The American South, The written word, Writers
Tuesday, October 3, 2000
Wednesday, October 3, 1900. Prime Minister released, novelist born.
Apolinario Mabini, briefly the prime minister of a briefly independant First Philippine Republic, wsa released from incarceration by the US.
He refused to take an oath of loyalty to the US, nor should he have had to. He would be rearrested and sent to Guam, and in 1903 released again after he took an oath of loyalty in 1903. By that time, he was severely ill, and he died shortly thereafter.
The Wright brothers began manned glider experiments at Kitty Hawk.
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American novelist Thomas Wolfe was born in North Carolina. He died in 1938 at age 37 of tuberculosis.
It's undeniable that the American South produced a lot of writers in the 20th Century. Wolfe was of the Modernist genre which I am not a fan of, and I've never read any of his works. Many of his works were autobiographical in nature. He was popular in Europe and in 1937 wrote two essays for The New Republic warning of the rise of Nazism and anti semitism in Germany. His most famous work, You Can't Go Home Again, was published posthumously.
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Monday. October 1, 1900. Churchill elected to the House of Commons.
Sunday, October 1, 2000
Monday. October 1, 1900. Churchill elected to the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at age 25.
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Sunday, September 30, 1900. The Battle of Obuasi.
Saturday, September 30, 2000
Sunday, September 30, 1900. The Battle of Obuasi.
Hundreds of Ashanti went down in combat against the British at the Battle of Obuasi in Ghana, bringing to an end the Ashanti Wars.
It's odd to think how this era of high colonialism was virtually on the even of the major decline of colonialism. Ghanaians who were infants when this occurred would be middle aged when Ghana achieved independence in 1957.
The Associated Press began publishing.
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Friday, September 28, 1900. Bad news from the Philippines.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Agriculture, Army, Arthur MacArthur, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle Pennsylvania, Daily Living, Food, Montana, Native Americans, Pennsylvania (Carlisle), Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection
Thursday, September 28, 2000
Friday, September 28, 1900. Bad news from the Philippines.
General Arthur MacArthur Jr. telegraphed the War Department (which was actually named that at the time) that 51 men from Company F of the 29th Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Captain Devereaux Shields, been taken prisoner by the Filipino resistance, along with the gunboat Villalobos.
It was almost as if the Filipinos didn't want us there.
Evelyn Cameron, English born Montana rancher who left some wonderful writings, and fantastic photographs.
English rancher in Montana Evelyn Cameron wrote:
FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, 1900 Ashburn 10 minutes. E & I town. Lunch at Corlinne. Tea Ashburn. Photos arrived from Stores.
Beautiful morning. afternoon wet very. Mild.
Arose 8:10. Down 9:00. Breakfast- eggs for E, porridge, oat cake. We started 11:30 for walk, & I just ran in to see how they were. E followed. Jessie gave me an African letter from her nephew written in July, on 1/2 rations & very sick of it. We went to town. I chose a Highland bull, & a Highland ram photos (1/each) sent to Per his birthday today. Bought apples for eating & cooking, and fish. In 1:00. Lunch — sago pudding. E — sardines. Like yesterday I was to have hired a bicycle, but the rain put a stop to it. Read. Photos- enlargements of antelope & the grouse under milkweed, platina type good! also 5x7 of the sea good. Group unpresentable tho’. Packed up one of each (not of group), & walked to PO & posted. E out, but came back. Allan came 4:15, & after seeing photos, we went to tea with him & Jessie. Jessie told me about Ardlussa. To sell for #30. worth #1500 in Jura. Received letter from Mrs C enclosing letter from Pitts. He has been in the eastern Firths with Middlemore. Home at 6:00. Jessie dressed Jim up as a girl for fun. Changed.
The paper from Carlisle Pennsylvania reported that Indians still had grievances.
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Wednesday, September 26, 1900. The Battleship Potemkin.
Tuesday, September 26, 2000
Wednesday, September 26, 1900. The Battleship Potemkin.
The Potemkin, famous for its 1905 mutiny which was later depicted by Sergei Eisenstein on film, was launched.
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Wednesday, September 19, 1900. The Wild Bunch at Winnemucca. Or not.
Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Wednesday, September 19, 1900. The Wild Bunch at Winnemucca. Or not.
The Wild Bunch robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada.
Well, maybe. Somebody robbed it, but it's disputed who. It may have been the Wild Bunch, or some members of the Wild Bunch, or just other theives.
Actress Belle Archer died of a stroke at age 41.
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Tuesday, September 18, 1900. Primary affliction.
Monday, September 18, 2000
Tuesday, September 18, 1900. Primary affliction.
Minnesota inflicted the abysmal and now largely illegal primary election system on the country, putting into effect an 1899 law requiring the same.
These have become state funded party elections which primarily operate to keep the Republicans and Democrats in npower, and everyone else, out. Reform, and a restoration of democracy in the United States will require making these non party elections, which could very easily be done, and which has been somewhat done in Alaska. Wyoming's legislature recently acted to ban open primaries in an anti democratic move.
The American League completed its last season as a minor league baseball circuit.
Li Hongzhang was accepted by the Allied powers as the representative of China for peace negotiations to end the Boxer Rebellion.
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Monday, September 17, 1900. Battle of Mabitac
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Army, Australia, Coal, Labor unrest, Pennsylvania, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines
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