June 1900 - June 11, 1900 (Monday)

June 11, 1900 (Monday)

• In Beijing, violence against foreigners took a new turn when Japanese diplomat Sugiyama Akira was murdered by Imperial Chinese soldiers. Akira, the chancellor of the Japanese Legation, had dressed in "top hat and tails" and driven by carriage from the legation quarter to the railway station, where he had planned to greet the relief force arriving from Tianjin, but the rails had been destroyed by the Boxers. Imperial soldiers under the command of General Tung dragged Akira from his carriage and hacked him to bits, then displayed his severed head at the station.
• Belle Boyd, who spied for the Confederacy during the Civil War and later recounted her experiences to audiences, died of a heart attack while touring Wisconsin.