Person report

★18 Feb 1878
Competition between two merchants in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, U.S., turned into a range war when a member of one faction was murdered by the other.

★08 Jun 1887
German-American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card tabulator.

★03 Jan 1888
The 36-inch at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time.

★30 Jun 1908
A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river in Siberia, flattening more than 2,150 square kilometres of forest.

★12 Apr 1910
SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched.

★12 Feb 1912
Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai, formally replacing the Qing dynasty with a new republic in China.

★11 Jul 1914
USS Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought", was launched.

★22 Apr 1915
The Germans released chlorine gas in the Second Battle of Ypres, causing over 6,000 casualties, with many deaths within ten minutes by asphyxiation in the first large-scale successful use of poison gas in World War I.

★09 Jun 1915
Unhappy with U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking, William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State.

★15 May 1916
Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas, U.S., in what became a well-known example of racially motivated lynching.

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