>>1879763
Wasn't there not something recently about an Ukraininan faking his death who was running for office?
This is not unprecedented
http://time.com/5297174/arkady-babchenko-faked-death-ukraine/
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-43732246/john-stonehouse-the-mp-who-faked-his-death
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January 28 – United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish–American War.
March 4 – William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt as the 27th President of the United States.
June 18 – The strangled body of missionary Elsie Sigel is discovered in a trunk in New York City's Chinatown.
August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane. They buy the Wright Military Flyer from the Wright Brothers.
November 11 – The U.S. Navy founds a navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Deaths
January 10
John Conness, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869 (born 1821)
Charles Vernon Culver, politician (born 1830)
April 9 – Francis Marion Crawford, novelist (born 1854)
April 21 – David Turpie, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1863 and from 1887 to 1899 (born 1828)
April 28 – Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont from 1861 to 1863 (born 1813)
May 17 – Helge Alexander Haugan, Norwegian-born banking executive (born 1847)
June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, writer (born 1849)
August 21 – George Cabot Lodge, poet (born 1873)
September 4 – Clyde Fitch, dramatist (born 1865)
October 15 – William Lindsay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901 (born 1835)
December 10 – Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Chief (born 1822)
December 20 – William Harris, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1897 to 1903 (born 1841)
December 26 – Frederic Remington, cowboy artist and sculptor (born 1864)
Date unknown – Gideon T. Stewart, educator and politician (born 1824)
1909 William Howard Taft implemented Dollar Diplomacy.[109]
February 12 The NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois.[110]
April 7 Robert Peary became the first person to reach the North Pole.[111]
August 2 The first redesigned Lincoln Penny was released to the public.[112]
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Ancient Egyptian City Discovered in the Grand Canyon in 1909: Hidden History!