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Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
Since a reconciliatory peace treaty had failed with kitchener that he negotiated with Boer leaders. it failed due to British cabinet veto. Kitchener rapidy inherited and expanded the stratieges created by Robert successfuly and forced the Boer leaders to submit, including concentration camps and the scorched earth policy. -
American Hall of Fame found
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is an outdoor sculpture gallery, located on the grounds of Bronx Community College in The Bronx, New York City. Completed in 1900 as part of the University Heights campus of New York University, the 630 foot 192 m stone colonnade half-encircles the university library and houses 98 bronze portrait busts. Designed by architect Stanford White. -
Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa
On 6 March 1902 in the district of Vryheid, a Zulu Chief, Sikobobo, attacked a Boer regiment after the latter had stolen their cattle, burned their kraals and driven their wives and children to Vryheid as punishment for assisting a British raiding force under Col. Bottemley. The local Boer commander, Field Cornet Jan Potgieter then sent a message to Sikobobo daring him to take back his cattle. -
Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
Saint Pius X 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pius V (1566 to 1572) to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology. His most important reform was to publish the first Code of Canon Law, which collected the laws of the Church into one volume for the first time. He was a pastoral pope, -
French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
The Dufaux 4 was an experimental aircraft built in Switzerland in 1909 and which was originally constructed as an unnamed biplane, the third aircraft constructed by the brothers Armand and Henri Dufaux. The aircraft was entirely conventional for the era a two bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span and a triangular-section fuselage. -
1st British labour exchange opens
The first Labour Exchanges were set up by Winston Churchill then a Liberal MP and President of the Board of Trade who feared the newly formed Labour Party was grabbing working-class votes. -
German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
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Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey
In Egypt there was some show of hatred for England among the Nomads of the desert, but no attempt was made to instigate a general uprising. Arabia, a Turkish province, allied herself with England and France. Great Britain retaliated by declaring war upon Turkey, November 5, 1914, by seizing all Turkish vessels in British ports and annexing the Island of Cyprus. -
Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman January 26, 1892 April 30, 1926 was an American civil aviator. She was the first female pilot of African American descent and the first person of African American descent to hold an international pilot license. -
Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR & NL record 16th in September
Ralph McPherran Kiner born October 27, 1922 is an American former Major League Baseball player and has been an announcer for theNew York Mets since the team's inception. Though injuries forced his retirement from active play after 10 seasons, Kiner's tremendous slugging outpaced nearly all of his National League contemporaries between the years 1946 and 1954. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975.
