Hundreds of people died in the flooding of the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted five corporations and 17 people for violations of the Sherman Act after charges were brought by the U.S. Department of Justice in an antitrust prosecution.[1]
China's government ordered all provincial governors and viceroys to put a stop to anti-American protests.
Died: U.S. Secretary of State John Hay died suddenly. Funeral services were conducted on July 5 with President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice President Charles Fairbanks attending. To succeed Hay, Roosevelt appointed Elihu Root, who was confirmed and took office on July 19.[1]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced more than 1,200 civil lawsuits against American railroad companies for violation of federal laws regarding transportation of livestock.[1]
The remains of John Paul Jones were turned over to U.S. Navy officials in Paris, and a special squadron departed from Cherbourg on July 8 to send the remains to the U.S.
U.S. President Roosevelt sent his 21-year-old daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and her party on a diplomatic journey to Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Korea.[2]
Romania returned the battleship Potemkin to the Imperial Russian Navy the day after the mutineering crew had been granted asylum at the Black Sea port of Constanța.
A Japanese expedition took control of the Russian island of Sakhalin after a short battle. Before retreating, the Russian Navy commander burned the government buildings and destroyed the coast defense guns, as well as destroying much of the Russian administrative buildings at Korsakov.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts declared in a speech at the House of Lords that the British Army was totally unfit for war and called for conscription of additional young men into the service.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire was agreed upon by the U.S., Japan and Russia to negotiate the terms of the treaty to end the Russo-Japanese War.
Born: Thomas Gomez (Sabino Tomás Gómez, Jr.), American stage and film actor known for Ride the Pink Horse; in New York City (d. 1971)
Kikutaro Baba, Japanese expert on mollusks who identified over 100 species and for whom at least 11 species are named, including Cyerce kikutarobabai; in Fukuoka (d. 2001)
The University of Sheffield, an amalgamation of Firth College, the Medical Institution and the Technical School, was officially opened by King Edward VII in England.[4]
The first World Congress of the Baptist Church ended with the founding of the Baptist World Alliance.[5]
Orville Wright suffered minor injuries in a test-flight of the Wright Brothers' new Wright Flyer III airplane, prompting them to begin a major redesign of the aircraft.
The first known suicide attack by a civilian (as opposed to sacrifices made in military combat) took place when a New Zealand farmer, Joseph Sewell, walked into a courtroom in Murchison (where he was the defendant in a civil lawsuit) and announced that he intended to detonate dynamite sticks strapped to his body. Sewell was ushered from the courtroom to the street and set off the dynamite after a police officer (who survived the blast) attempted to arrest him.[6]
The popular fictional character Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, was introduced in France. Created by French writer Maurice Leblanc, the first Lupin story appeared in the magazine Je sais tout, with the publication of the story ""The Arrest of Arsène Lupin" ("L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin"). Lupin went on to be featured in 17 novels and 39 short novels, and has been featured in plays, films and several television series.
Ottoman Empire forces, led by General Ahmed Fayzi Pasha, began a three-pronged attack on Yemen, capturing Sana'a on August 30.[8]
Julius Marx (left) at age 12
Aged 14, Julius Henry Marx made his show business debut, appearing as a boy singer with the Gene Leroy Trio at the Ramona Theater in Grand Rapids, Michigan as part of a vaudeville act. He would later become famous as comedian Groucho Marx.[9]
Died: Daniel J. Maloney, 26, American aviator, was killed while demonstrating John J. Montgomery's Montgomery Glider in the skies over Santa Clara CollegeinSan Jose, California. After the glider was released from a balloon, Maloney was guiding it when the aircraft began falling apart, and both he and the aircraft plummeted from an altitude of 2,000 feet (610 m). [11]
The British House of Commons narrowly voted a resolution of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Balfour, by a majority of three votes. Balfour announced on July 24 that he would not resign.[12]
The Taft–Katsura agreement was reached in Tokyo between U.S. Secretary of State (and future U.S. president) William Howard Taft, and Japan's Prime Minister, Count Katsura Tarō, to discuss their respective positions regarding Korea and the Philippines. Though no formal agreement was signed, the U.S. agreed to Korea becoming a protectorate of Japan, in return for Japan's recognition of U.S. jurisdiction over the Philippines.
InCalifornia, the government of the City of Los Angeles announced plans to build an aqueduct to bring water from the Owens River to adequately supply the city's residents. The Los Angeles Aqueduct would become operational in 1913 and transform the city into the second largest metropolis into the United States within less than a century.
Japan completed its conquest of Russia's island of Sakhalin with the surrender of the remaining Russian garrison of 3,200 men and 70 officers commanded by Governor Mikhail Lyapunov.[12] The two nations would later agree to divide Sakhalin as part of the Portsmouth treaty.
Japan secured a commitment from the Korean Empire to open the three Korean ports to international trade.[12]
^Melvyn Jones, The Making of Sheffield (Wharncliffe Books, 2004) p. 158
^"Conversations around the World: Report of the International Conversations between the Anglican Communion and the Baptist World Alliance", in Growth in Agreement III: International Dialogue Texts and Agreed Statements, 1998-2005 (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007) p.335
^"NZ suicide bombing a world first", by Gerard Hindmarsh, The Press (Christchurch), January 16, 2016. p. A13
