Zapatistas are thrown back. Gen. Garza resumed his march on Mexico City.
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Career Army officer and ally of Zapata, General Rafael Eguía Lis, a Conventionist supporting the sitting government defeated Carrancistas attempting to reach Los Reyes and San Cristóbal. The Zapatistas, on the other hand, were entrenched in Cerro Gordo, using the Grand Drainage Canal as a defensive line.
German and Austro-Hungarian forces captured Lemberg, restoring Galacia to their control.
A large earthquake occured in the Imperial Valley, California.
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The town of South Omaha, Nebraska and its 40,000 people were annexed into Omaha.
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The USS Arizona was launched.
The press was reporting that Carranza was in retreat, which was correct.
The Danish monarchy decreed that Iceland could have its own flag.
The prices were good too.
The Allies ceased offensive operations in the Battle of Artois.
Emiliano Zapata orders all of his senior officers to report for duty.
There were now effectively three armies in the field. One under Villa, which was contesting Obregon, who was allied to Carranza. A second Carranza army under Pablo Gonzáles Garza that had just been formed by Carranza. And, finally, the Zapatistas. None of the leaders of these armies was the de jure head of the Mexican state.
The Motion Picture Directors Association was formed in Los Angeles.
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The victims included Armenian leaders Paramaz, Aram Achekbashian, and Kegham Vanigian.
The party still exists.
British and Canadian forces captured the front line northwest of La Bassée, France but were then pushed back by German grenades and a shortage of ammunition.
French aircraft raided Baden and Karlsruhe, Germany.
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia died at age 56 of ill health, his condition having worsened due to World War One due to the stress of having close family members in the army. After his death his diaries revealed that he had been a tormented homosexual.
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The Central Powers attacked Lemberg, which became Polish after the war as Lviv, and which is now part of Ukraine as Lvov.
Capuchin Friar Blessed Leonard Melki was murdered along with other Christians, including Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, by Ottoman troops at Mardin.
Included in the murdered was Blessed Ignace Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.
The French advanced 550 yards at Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.
British and French forces took control of all garrisons around Garua, German Cameroon.
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Francisco Lagos Cházaro became acting contested president of Mexico under convention of the Convention of Aguascalientes. Carranza, who had declared himself president, did not recognize the Cházaro government.
Today In Wyoming's History: June 10: 1915 Girl Scouts founded. This was an expansion of the scouting movement started by English Lord Baden Powell, which was a significant movement at the time.
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William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State due to his much more neutral position on World War One, and more specifically disagreements with the Wilson Administration's handling of the Lusitania incident.
Wilson sent another letter to Germany over the Lusitania, rejecting assertions she was carrying munitions.
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Just the day prior, a rosy report was given regarding Villa's position. Now the truth was coming out.
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The Germans regrouped to slow the French advance and recaptured their second line by the end of the day at Hébuterne.
Today In Wyoming's History: June 8: 1915 Hoyt Hall at the University of Wyoming named for John Hoyt, UW's first president and a former territorial governor. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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The Allies reorganized at Gallipoli and beat back an Ottoman offensive.
The French Army captured the main road leading to Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.
The Swiss population overwhelmingly approved a war tax, the first time which a Swiss referendum passed in every canton.
Today In Wyoming's History: June 6: 1915 British commissioners began to purchase remounts in Wyoming. The purchase of horses for British service in World War One created a boom in horse ranching which would continue, fueled both by British and American service purchases, throughout the war, but which would be followed by a horse ranching crash after the war.
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