Saturday, November 6, 1914. Eulalio Gutiérrez declared President of Mexico

Eulalio Gutiérrez was declared President of Mexico during the Convention of Aguascalientes.

His presidency was best with problems from the onset as the warring parties that had prevailed in removing Huerta did not agree on much else.  Ultimately, he declared Carranza and Villa to be traitors to the revolution and removed himself to the United States.  He returned in 1920, but later participated in a  subsequent rebellion and again went to the US as an exile.  He returned to Mexico again in 1935 and died in 1939 at age 58.

Japanese troops stormed German defenses at Tsingtao.

Ottoman troops confronted Imperial Russian forces that had entered the country.

British troop conducted an amphibious landing at Fao, Iraq, in order to take the fortress there which threatened British shipping.

Irish member of Parliament Arthur O'Neill was killed in action at Zillebeke, Belgium.  He was an Ulster Unionist.

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Thursday, November 5, 1914. Bears.

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Saturday, October 31, 1914. Convention troubles

Being a Saturday in the Fall, college football was on.

There was brewing trouble in Mexico.

Things weren't going well at the Convention of Aguacalientes.

The Imperial Russian Army prevailed over the Germans and Austro Hungarians in the Battle of Vistula River.

The French and British took back Nieuwpoort, Belgium, brining to an end the Battle of Yser.  The Belgians had lost between 20,000 and 40,000 troops in the campaign, the Germans over 76,000.

The Germans broke through Allied lines near Gheluvelt Belgium but a British counterattack restored the line.

The Japanese Navy began shelling Tsingtao.

The HMS Hermes was sunk by the U-27 in the Starit of Dover.

German troops raided the Portuguese fort at Cuangar, Angola.

The Ecuadorian army defeated rebels at Esmeraldas,Ecuador.

Duluth, Minnesota.

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Thursday, October 29, 1914. Turkey bombards Odessa.

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Saturday, October 10, 1914. Convention of Aguascalientes

The Convention of Aguascalientes, called by Venustiano Carranza convened.  Carranza, in spite of calling the meeting, did not attend and did not send representatives.  Pancho Villa's representatives were in attendance.  Álvaro Obregón came in person. Zapata's representatives would arrive fifteen days after the start of the convention.  Villista's dominated.

The first thing the convention did was to declare itself sovereign, the de facto government of Mexico.

British and French forces attempted to take the French city of La Bassée.

King Carol I of Romania, who opposed entering the Great War, died.

The SMS Emden left British held Diego Garcia, with its residents unaware that a war had started.

Boston took game two of the World Series, 1 to 0.

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Friday, October 9, 1914. Antwerp surrendered.

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