Archbishop Vasileios Georgiadis was elected by his peers as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
A figurine of a pregnant woman was unearthed in Czechoslovakia that is believed to be 31,000 years old, one of the oldest examples of the same.
Walt Disney married Lillian Bounds in Idaho.
Last edition:
France and Spain, each occupying different portions of Morocco, agreed to cooperate in the Rif War against their common enemy, the Riffians.
It was, of course, a Saturday.
The Secretary of State to the Confidential Agent of the Constitutionalist Government of Mexico.
Department of State,
Washington, July 10, 1915.
Sir: The Department has received your letter of July 1, in which, by direction of the so-called Constitutionalist Government of Mexico, you request the extradition of General Victoriano Huerta and the detention of Messrs. Felix Diaz, Manuel Mondragon and Aurelio Blanquet with a view to their extradition.
In reply you are informed that, owing to the absence of a recognized Federal Government in Mexico and the well-known conditions existing throughout the Republic, the Department must decline to comply with the request for the extradition of General Huerta.
I am [etc.]
For the Secretary of State:
Cone Johnson.
And;
The Secretary of State to the Attorney for the Conventionist Government of Mexico.
Department of State,
Washington, July 10, 1915.
Sir: The Department has received your telegram of July 2, in regard to the requisition for the extradition of General Victoriano Huerta addressed by General Fidel Avila, Governor of Chihuahua, to the Honorable James E. Ferguson, Governor of Texas.
I am [etc.]
For the Secretary of State:
Cone Johnson.
And:
The Secretary of State to the Confidential Agent of the Provisional Government of Mexico.
Department of State,
Washington, July 10, 1915.
Sir: The Department has received your letter of July 3, in relation to the desired extradition of General Victoriano Huerta.
I am [etc.]
Robert Lansing.
The Russians attacked the hills west of the town of Malazgirt, Turkey, assuming defenses to be weak which they were not, leading to a Russian defeat.
Last edition:
Anarchist Eric Muenter fled Washington D.C. to New York City where he planted a bomb on the munitions ship SS Minnehaha. He then traveled to the home of J. P. Morgan Jr. with more dynamite and two revolvers, invaded the house intending to take the family hostage and force the Morgan company to stop financing munitions shipments to Europe for the Allied war effort.
He was clearly deluded.
Morgan was at home with his wife and butler and they subdued Muenter despite the anarchist shooting Morgan twice in the groin and leg.
Morgan recovered within the month. Muenter was arrested.
Muenter was decidedly odd, but very intelligent. Born in Uelzen, Province of Hanover, he immigrated with his parents and three sisters to Chicago at the age of 18. While still a student, Muenter worked as a German and French instructor at Racine College and Kenwood Preparatory School between 1895 and 1896,[5] then graduated with his A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1899. He was a German instructor during this period, but went back to Europe for fourteen months. He taught German at the University of Kanas in 1902, and then began instructing German at Harvard while he was a student there.
In 1906, while still a student at Harvard, he murdered his first wife by poison. He went on the run after that, but in those pre Internet, pre drivers license, per Social Security days, he managed to actually resume teaching and studying. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1909 and taught at the University of Oklahoma,Vanderbilt University Emory and Henry College and Cornell University, where he earned a PhD. He remarried during this period.
It was a Saturday.
Last edition:
.webp)
Last edition:
Benito Mussolini launched "The Battle for Grain" ("La battaglia del grano"), aimed at increasing Italy's wheat production to the point of becoming completely self-sufficient.
FWIW, today Italy uses a lot of Ukrainian wheat.
Audie Murphy was born into a sharecropping family in Hunt County, Texas. He'd grow up under difficult conditions, learning to hunt in order to help feed his large family, and leaving school to pick cotton in fifth grade.
Last edition:
Walter P. Chrysler incorporated the company that bears his name.
The Great Syrian Revolt against the French started when representatives of the Jabal Druze State were treated poorly by the French administrator. Syrian rejection of French rule, however, had been smouldering since the end of World War One.
Indeed, this ties right into the events we've been otherwise cataloging regarding France at the end of World War One. Syria and Lebanon had been granted near independence during the war, which France tried to renege on as soon as the Germans were defeated. Only British intervention, which nearly resulted in fighting between the French and British, stopped that from occurring and assured rapid Syrian and Lebanese independence. French insistence on occupying the same territory at the end of the Great War nearly resulted in fighting between the same two European powers then and France had never been welcome by most of the regions inhabitants.
French attachment to the region is hard to really explain, but it is in part cultural and goes all the way back to the Kingdom of Jerusalem,1099–1187, 1192-1291, the long running "Crusader Kingdom" in the same region. Lasting almost two hundred years, the kingdom, which was mostly governed by French Crusaders, formed a strong cultural attachment to the region with the French.
The Saturday magazines hit the stands.
Last edition:
.webp)
