of North Carolina played its first college basketball game, defeating Virginia Christian College (now Lynchburg College) 42–21 at Chapel Hill. Several soldiers were killed in a border clash between Peru and Ecuador. January 28, 1911 (Saturday) The Diamond Match Company agreed to surrender its patent rights for a substitute for the poisonous white phosphorus, clearing the way for all matches to be safely manufactured."Match Patent Ended For Humanity's Sake", New York Times, January 29, 1911, p1 January 29, 1911 (Sunday) Eighteen Mexican insurgents captured Mexicali, in Baja California del Norte, without firing weapons. The comic strip "Mr. Twee Deedle", by Johnny Gruelle, debuted in the New York Herald'' and later in newspapers across the U.S. Gruelle, who had won the chance to show his talents in a national contest, later became more famous as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy. Following two days of protests in Guayaquil, President Alfaro of Ecuador abandoned a plan to lease the Galapagos Islands to the United States. Born: Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986) Died: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, 67, American author January 30, 1911 (Monday) The destroyer USS Terry made the first rescue of an airplane downed at sea, saving the life of John McCurdy from Havana, Cuba. The eruption of the Mount Taal volcano on the Philippines island of Luzon caused a series of earthquakes and tsunamis, and killed 1,335 people. Mount Taal would erupt again on September 28, 1965 and kill almost 600 islanders. The International Pentecostal Holiness Church was founded by the merger of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church and the Pentecostal Holiness Church, at a meeting in Falcon, North Carolina. James White, a disabled black youth, was executed in a public hanging in Middlesboro, Kentucky, after he had slept, at age 16, with a white girl and was then accused of rape. James Breathitt, the state Attorney General, concluded that White was incapable of understanding the charge against him, and asked Governor Augustus E. Willson to commute the sentence. Governor Willson agreed that White was "mentally imperfect", but added that "he is none the less dangerous to society, and if his case is not punished by death, is dangerous to the whole state". As an historian noted, "White, most likely unaware of the reason why, died on the gallows in Middlesboro before a crowd that numbered in the thousands." The Carlton Cannes Hotel opened on the Promenade de