Showing posts with label German East Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German East Africa. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2025

Sunday, July 11, 1915. Garza enters Mexico City. Revolutionary ambush in Brownsville.

Constitutionalist Gen. Pablo Gonzáles Garza entered Mexico City

Sheriff's Deputy Constable Pablo Falcon and Deputy Sheriff  Encarnacion Cuellar were shot and killed when they were ambushed by six men at a dance hall three miles from Brownsville, Texas. They are asserted to be the first victims of the Plan of San Diego, with it being ironic in that they were both Hispanic.  Other causes for the ambush have been theorized.

The Germans scuttled the cruiser SMS Königsberg in the Rufiji River, German East Africa following the vessel being heavily damaged in action against the Royal Navy.

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Saturday, July 10, 1915. Writing the Mexican governments about Huerta.


Monday, January 19, 2015

Tuesday, January 19, 1915. Air raid. Neon lights.

The first major air raid (there had been a prior raid) on Britain occurred when Zeppelins attacked  Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn. The raid killed twenty people.

1916 British poster.

British forces surrendered at Jassin, German East Africa, following two days of fighting.

Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for advertising lighting.


This is another thing that I've never stopped to think about in terms of how old these are.  I knew that neon advertising lights were common by the 1930s, but I hadn't thought of them before that.  They're frankly something I really like.

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