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1910

Mexican Revolution launched by Francisco Madero.

On this day in 1910, Francisco Madero launched a failed revolt that nonetheless sparked the Mexican Revolution by inspiring hope in such leaders as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, who then mobilized their ragged armies.
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1998
American tobacco companies signed an agreement with the governments of 46 U.S. states to settle the states' claims for reimbursement of Medicaid funds they had expended to treat smoking-related illnesses, the settlement costing the tobacco manufacturers $206 billion beyond the $40 billion they had agreed to pay four other states in 1997.


1975
Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain since his overthrow of the democratic government in 1939, died in Madrid.


1917
For the first time, tanks were used effectively in warfare, by the British at the Battle of Cambrai.


1910
Russian author Leo Tolstoy, suffering from pneumonia, died of heart failure at the railroad station of Astapavo.


1858
Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman and first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born.


1815
In the final phases of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia renewed the Quadruple Alliance to prevent further French aggression.