Pyotr Stolypin resigned as Prime Minister of Russia but was back in office by the end of the week at the urging of Czar Nicholas II who was worried about China and who had problems with his proposed successor, Vladimir Kokovtsov.
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A bomb made of nitroglycerine was set off near the barracks of Mexican federal troops in Juarez, but without effect.
Las Vegas become an incorporated Nevada municipality.
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Final trials began to determine whether the John Browning designed Colt Special Army Model 1910 or the Elbert Searle designed Savage Model 1907 would become the first automatic pistol to be adopted by the U.S. Army. Both were chambered in .45 ACP, a Colt designed cartridge.
The Colt Special Army Model 1910 is familiar to history as the M1911. The Savage, less so.
The Colt would go on, of course, to be adopted and is the greatest military handgun of all time. Still superior, in the minds of many (including the author), to any handgun that came after it.
As a minor note on that, I recently went through security in at a Wyoming court and the Sheriffs Deputy manning it was armed with a high end 1911. I asked him about it. He'd been in the Army, and rejected all the 9mms that came after the M1911.
He's not the only one.
The Silver Spray was caught in a snowstorm on Lake Erie, foundered, and its fishing crew froze to death in the lake.
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El Paso was jittery, although not without good reason.
Early in the Progressive Era, California adopted initiatives and referendums.
I'm not hugely keen on them myself.
The Japanese Antarctic Expedition reached its limit at Coulman Island.
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The Supreme Court upheld corporate income tax as constitutional.
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Mexican Federal forces prevailed at Agua Prieta, the border town that would figure prominently in the Mexican Revolution.
This contest was one of several in the war, and apparently wasn't given a name.
Part of Mt. Vesuvius' crater collapsed following a severe earthquake.
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Revolutionaries took the police office in Villa de Ayala, gathered the people and Torres Burgos read to the crowd the Plan of San Luis Potosí. At which occasion Otilio E. Montaño yelled "¡Abajo las Haciendas y Vivan los Pueblos!"
Dr. Simon Flexner announced at a meeting of the Rockefeller Institute the discovery of the cause of infantile paralysis, also known as poliomyelitis or polio.
It was a Saturday.
Emiliano Zapata gathered seventy men in Morelos as the start of his revolutionary army.
Kansas became the first state in the union to subject securities and investment brokers to state regulation.
T/he greatest snow fall in U.S. history concluded in Tamarack, Californian. 451 inches.
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Madero's forces unsuccessfully attacked government troops at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.
Samuel J. Battle was sworn in as the first black officer of the New York Police Department.
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Congress appropriated $125,000 for the Signal Corps to purchase aircraft.
The U.S. Army Dental Corps was established.
The U.S. Army began a "torture test" of the John Browning designed Colt M1911 pistol.
Jean Harlow (Harlean Harlow Carpenter) was born. Always of fragile health, she died when she was only 26 years old.
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Here's another example. Depicted here, one time close up, and a second time from down the street, is the Burlington Northern train depot. It's still a train depot, but it only serves to be the headquarters for the BNSF locally now. At one time, of course, passengers got on and off the train here. A friend recently sent me a very interesting article describing that process, and how passengers got off and went to a nearby, now gone, restaurant. For that matter, at least three major hotels were located within a couple of blocks of the depot, one of which is the Townsend, now converted into a courthouse.
Lincoln County Wyoming was established.
The Chinese government ordered villagers to burn their dead in order to combat the bubonic plague.
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Just recently, I resumed using the Dragon voice recognition system for dictation. For those not familiar with it, it's a program that jacks into your computer, and you speak into a microphone
