Victoriano Huerta, age 65, died in El Paso. Huera had occupied the position of President of Mexico, illegitimately from February, 19, 1913 to July, 1914.
As a total aside, those dates would place setting for Sam Peckinpah's classic The Wild Bunch prior to July, 1914, which makes for one of the film's inaccuracies, albeit a minor one, in that aircraft are referenced as something that's "going to be" used in the war in Europe. World War One had not yet quite broken out, but then perhaps this can be rationalized in some fashion. Gen. Mapache is referenced as being "a butcher for Huerta".
A huge race riot occurred in El Paso on the same day in reaction to news of the Santa Ysabel Massacre, not all of which was completely accurate, even though the accurate news was bad enough.
British troops attacked Ottoman troops under the command of Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz along the Wadi River.
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