A peace commission in Chihuahua, Mexico attempted to broker a truce between the Diaz government and the "Maderistas" who supported Francisco I. Madero.
Cynthia Ann Parker, captured by the Comanche as a child and then recaptured by the Texas Rangers unwillingly as an adult, was reinterred in Oklahoma. She had passed away in 1870.
She was the mother of Quanah Parker.
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The Casper paper termed the situation on the border "serious".
The British reinforced Matruh, Egypt, to guard against the Senussis.
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Pancho Villa ordered a mass execution of the male residents of San Pedro de la Cueva, blaming the town for the deaths of five of his troops, He originally was going to have everyone in the small town executed, but an officer in his forces convinced him to spare the women and children. Villa personally shot the village priest who urged Villa to spare the town.
The village was principally an Indian one, although a few foreigners and a few Chinese residents were amongst the victims. Seven men survived having been left for dead.
The press reported that Villa lost support of his Yaquis, and that Carranza had ended military control of the railroads.
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Porfirio Diaz was inaugurated for his eighth term as President of Mexico. His status in that role was already disputed. His refusal to know when to go had already started a revolution, although at this moment, it was small.
Diaz might actually be remembered as a great leader of Mexico, in spite of his anti democratic tendencies, had he stepped down in 1910.
19 year old Helen Taft, the daughter of President Taft and his wife Nellie, had her debutante ball at the White House.
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Venustiano Carranza met Col. Augustus P. Blocksom on the International Bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville. People were smiling, but all was not well.
Blocksom had been in the Army since 1877. He was a cavalryman and would rise to the rank of Maj. General during World War One, although he would serve in the Great War as a training officer, completing his service as the commander of the Army in the Pacific. His career had been very distinguished. He retired in 1918, and died in 1931 at age 76.
Woodrow Wilson created the Walnut Canyon National Monument near Flagstaff, Arizona.
And for the last day of November:
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The Constitutionalist government in Mexico City announced a plan to bring about victory over Zapata.
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It was a Saturday.
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Country Gentleman had an illustration of a white turkey, but I can't find a good image of it to post.
The British government introduced legislation to restrict housing rents to their pre Great War levels following Glasgow rent strikes.
A second KKK chapter was established in Stone Mountain, Georgia, showing the rapid growth of the racist organization. Of note, a newspaper in Colorado that was black owned and operated campaigned on this day for keeping Birth of a Nation out of Colorado.
In Casper, a tragedy struck the local Catholic community with the death of Fr. McGee, who was just 27 years old.
The local paper also reported that troops were headed to the border in light of the Second Battle of Nogales having just occured.
A rather grim photograph was taken of French soldiers gathering up battlefield dead, French and German.
Weather at Gallipoli continued to be bad.
The Great Blizzard at Gallipoli
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Villista's commenced firing on U.S. troops across the border in Nogales, Arizona, from Nogales, Sonora. The 12th Infantry responded with counter fire in an engagement that lasted over two hours until Constitutionalistas troops arrived and attacked the Villistas.
Villa's troops had been attempting to withdraw from Nogales but had their efforts frustrated with Obregon's troops captured a troop train they were using. The Villista firing into Nogales started after that. Some U.S. forces crossed into Mexico during the fight, prior ro the arrival of Obregon's troops. Later in the day, the 10th Cavalry engaged in a 30 minute firefight with the Constitutionalistas.
Bad weather set in at Gallipoli, adding to the misery and to Allied casualties.
Other news of the day:
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It was Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.
It apparently was a tense one on the the border.
Serbian Field Marshal Radomir Putnik ordered a retreat of Serbian forces military through Albania and Montenegro. 155,000 Serbian soldiers and civilians to escape to the Adriatic Sea, but an estimated 200,000 more died of exposure, starvation and attacks by enemy soldiers and local Albanian militia.
Parliament passed an act to restrict rent and mortgage rate increases during the ongoing war.
Albert Einstein submitted his paper 'The Field Equations of Gravitation' for publication in 1915, which gave the correct field equations for the theory of general relativity. German mathematician David Hilbert had submitted an article containing the correct field equations for general relativity five days before.
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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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Putting up a post that was made, and then lost;
Villa was in retreat again:
Supreme Leader of the Senussi in North Africa Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi ordered his forces to cross the Egyptian frontier to execute a military coastal campaign against the Allies.
An outpost southeast of Sollum, Egypt was attacked
The Endurance broke up and sank. The Aurora drifted across the Antartic Circle as ice trapping her began to melt.
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Francisco I. Madero crossed into Mexico from Texas somewhere between Laredo and Eagle Pass at 6:00 p.m. with ten men and 100 rifles in order to start an armed insurrection against the sitting Mexican government.
Upon crossing, he found only ten additional men, and then returned to Texas to regroup.
It was, nonetheless, the beginning of the Mexican Revolution and it is celebrated today as Revolution Day in Mexico.
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Leo Tolstoy, age 82, died.
