President Taft ordered the reassignment of the all-African-American U.S. 9th Cavalry out of San Antonio, Texas as the unit's northern-born soldiers had defied the city's segregation laws. Indeed, two white streetcar conductors had been beaten up after insisting that the soldiers move to the "colored" section of the cars.
They'd only recently been deployed there due to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.
Draft registration became mandatory in New Zealand for all males aged 14 to 20.
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