August 17.2C 1901 .28Saturday.29 August 1901



wins election 2 weeks before voting begins



general leónidas plaza declared winner in elections president of ecuador, 2 weeks before scheduled august 31 election day.
the crew of general slocum, steanship destroyed in 1904 in new york city s worst disaster of 20th century, fought off attempt passengers seize control of vessel. ill-fated slocum rented excursions, , carrying party of 9 hundred drunken anarchists paterson, new jersey, when riot broke out. crew of 22 able fight against mob, , steamed pier used boats of new york police department, 17 of instigators arrested.
the u.s. navy sent second gunboat, uss ranger, isthmus of panama.
born:

malcolm macdonald, british secretary of state dominion affairs 1935-1939, , secretary of state colonies, 1938-1940; in lossiemouth (d. 1981)
heðin brú (pen name hans jacob jacobsen), faroese language novelist , translator; in skálavík, faroe islands, denmark (d. 1987)






^ plaza ecuador s president , chicago sunday tribune, august 18, 1901, p6
^ fran capo, myths , mysteries of new york: true stories of unsolved , unexplained (rowman & littlefield, 2011) p160
^ start riot on steamer s deck , chicago sunday tribune, august 18, 1901, p4
^ cite error: named reference aror 9 invoked never defined (see page).






Comments

Popular posts from this blog

In literature Socialist realism in Romania

Flipnote creation Flipnote Studio 3D

How CURP codes are built Unique Population Registry Code