British forces numbering 10,000 attacked an Ottoman line with three times that number of troops at Hanna and were badly defeated, leaving Kut exposed.
The AFL was seeking to limit immigration in what used to be a Democratic position:
Hides and furs were being sought:
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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.
The British took Sheikh Sa'ad.
The Russian Navy took control of the Black Sea.
A steelworkers strike lead to a riot at Youngstown, Ohio.
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The Indian Expeditionary Force D, mostly made up of Indian units and under the command of Gen. Sir John Nixon, attacked a more powerful force of Ottoman troops under the command of Nureddin Pasha near the site of the ancient city of Ctesiphon, located on the Tigris southeast of Baghdad.
Both sides took high casualty rates, but the battle arrested British progress in Mesopotamia and forced a British withdrawal.
The French evacuated the Vardar region of Macedonia in light of the defeat of the Serbian Army.
While the fighting in Europe had much of the front news attention in the US, in Texas it was Villa's plight south of the border, and how that might spill into the US.
The circus/carnival train owned by Con T. Kennedy was hit head on by the engine of a Central of Georgia passenger train east of Columbus, Georgia. The resulting crash resulted in at least 15 deaths of circus workers and perhaps up to 25, who were buried in a common grave.
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