The Tragic Week, "Semana Tragica" ended as the Spanish government restored order in Barcelona and other areas of Catalonia. The violent confrontations between the Spanish army and anarchists, freemasons, socialists and republicans of Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia, Spain were in opposition to the Second Rif War and the call up of reservists.
Called up reservists were often the only means of support for their families, whereas the wealthy could hire substitutes.
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President Taft established Mukuntuweap National Monument in what is now Zion National Park.
General Motors acquired Cadillac.
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The first baseball game in Korea was held. It was a match between students and American missionaries. The students had learned the game in Japan.
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A Casper Star Tribune article that sort of sheds light on some of the topics discussed here:
http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/07/19 ... 0157b9.txt
This article discusses an entire town disappearing. But it misses part of the reason for that. The town was only a few miles from another, that being the town of Midwest. Midwest is just about four or five miles from another, Edgerton. And Midwest is only about 50 miles from Casper. So the town in the article was probably only about 30 or 40 miles from Casper.
When it was founded, travel conditions would have made the town probably both necessary and viable. But by the 30s, when it disappeared, it was really redundant and inefficient, it's role having been taken over by older and slightly larger Midwest.
Today, Midwest and Edgerton are sort of shadows of their former selves as well.
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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