A vote of no confidence followed, and the sitting government failed.
Clemenceau, of course, would rise again and return to office in 1917.
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Neal Ball of the Cleveland Indians made the first unassisted triple play in major league history.
Ball played major league ball from 1907 to 1913, when he was returned to the minors in which he played until 1924. He died at age 71 in 1957.
The Hudson Terminal, the largest underground station in New York City, opened.
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The House of Representatives passed the 16th Amendment. The Senate had already done so.
Korea turned prison administration over to Japan in what was a step towards full annexation of the Hermit Kingdom.
President Taft withdrew and therefore protected the Oregon Caves National Monument.
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Two years before the fateful revolution of 1911, the United States and Qing China entered into an agreement which allowed select Chinese students to enroll at American universities.
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The Qing Dynasty had been in existence since 1644. That would come to an end in 1912. China has pretty much been in some sort of political mess since then, although it certainly had plenty of problems before that.
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The first baseball game played under lights happened in a match between the Grand Rapids Team and the Zanesville Team of the minor league Central League.
British Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone met with eight suffragist leaders by way of a request of King Edward VII.
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Undergraduate student T. E. Lawrence left Britain for his first trip to the Middle East, bound for Syria and Palestine to study the influence of the Crusades on European military architecture. The trip would later produce the book Crusader Castles, which came out the following year.
Some photos of agricultural child labor in Maryland were taken, captions are original.
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Albert Einstein resigned from his job at the Patent Office in Zürich in order to pursue the full-time study of physics, proving that there are times in which you should indeed quit your job.
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The Plan of Chicago, a long range plan for the city, was unveiled.
In Scanton, Pennsylvania, a 16 foot high (including an intricately carved pedestal) bust of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated. It was a gift from Italy.
It's now missing and nobody knows what happened to it . . .which is odd.
The French battleship Denton, the first battleship to have turbine engines, was launched. It was sunk on March 19, 1917.
The first fireworks display in Major League Baseball occured at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.
The Stanley Hotel opened in Estes Park, Colorado.
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Federal charges were filed against Koca Nola, yes you read that right, after it was found to contain cocaine.
It was advertised, FWIW, as "dopeless".
It was the third most popular cola in the United States at the time, but would be bankrupt within a year.
Hudson debuted.
Congress passed the 16th Amendment allowing for an income tax, and it was sent to the states for ratification.
Fritz Haber and his assistant, Robert Le Rossignol, first demonstrated a nitrogen fixation process for synthesizing ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen, a process used for nitrate fertilizer.
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Due to a heat wave, President Taft had dinner for guests served on the roof of the White House's West Wing.
The President had gone golfing earlier in the day.
Casper wasn't in danger from Pathfinder Dam, which was good news.
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A heat wave began to take lives on the East Coast.
The now infamous Carlisle Indian School on this date in 1909:
The New York American broke the tragic and odd story of Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary, who had been quarantined at that point for two years.
Mallon never accepted that she was responsible for passing typhoid, but remained quarantined until 1910 when she was released with a promise that she would not return to cooking. Facing economic desperation, she did, and new infections commenced that were traced to her. She was returned to quarantine in 1915 where she remained until her death at age 69 in 1938.
In a modern context, this is interesting due to the recent debates on quarantines. The ethnics of essentially imprisoning a person for life as a disease carrier have been debated, but its clear that in the first half of the 20th Century, it could in fact be done.
Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania. The Australian actor obtained a reputation as a dashing figure in Hollywood, with his reputation tarnished by being tried for two accusations of statutory rape in 1942. His career didn't end, but it did suffer thereafter, even though he was acquitted. He oddly had a late in life role as a journalist from Cuba, where he supported Fidel Castro. He died in 1959 at age 50 of a heart attack while in British Columbia. His then current girl friend, 17 years old at the time, was with him on the trip.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright were presented with a Congressional Gold Medal by Gen. James Allen, Chief of the Signal Corps, on behalf of President Taft, for their aeronautic feats. At the same time, Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio presented the brothers with the Ohio Medal, and Mayor Edward E. Burkhardt with the City of Dayton Medal.
William Lorimer was sworn in as U.S. Senator from Illinois.
Lorimer was a Republican and if this happened today, he'd declare undying allegiance to Donald Trump and Republicans in the Senate would declare that this was some sort of horrific tragedy.
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