Seeing as we've been featuring 1914:
Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Saturday, May 16, 1914. Álvaro Obregón's takes Tepic.
Álvaro Obregón's forces captured Tepic and thus the only railroad between the ports of Guadalajara and Colima.
Robert Bartlett arrived in Emma Harbour.
A day late, but the day prior, May 15, Colorado National Guardsman Sergeant Patrick N. Cullom testified that soldiers in his company shot and killed labor activist Louis Tikas and two other fellow strikers while they tried to escape during the Ludlow Massacre. Moreover, it was revealed that large numbers of strikebreakers were recent enlistees in the subject unit.
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Thursday, May 14, 1914. The Life of General Villa
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Wednesday, May 14, 1924. Pondering pacifism, charges of communism and executions.
The Methodist general conference committee meeting in Springfield, Massachusetts voted 76 to 37 to recommend to the conference that the church never again participate in the support of warfare of any kind.
The meeting was contentious in general, with charges of communism being levied against church leaders.
Former Constitutionalist general and supporter of the recent rebellion, Gen. Fortunato Maycottee was executed by firing squad at age 32.
A multiracial Legislative Council of Kenya met for the first time.
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Tuesday, May 13, 1924. Conventions wrap up.
Thursday, May 14, 1914. The Life of General Villa
The Life of General Villa was released as a film by D. W. Griffith. Villa was played by Villa.
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Tuesday, May 12, 1914. A Marian Apparition.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Wednesday, May 7, 1924. Liberty.
The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance was founded in Mexico City by Peruvian politician Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre as a Latin American left wing political party/alliance of left wing political parties. It still exists.
The first issue of Liberty, dated May 10, appeared. It lasted until July 1950.
German miners went on strike in he Ruhar over wages.
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Tuesday, May 6, 1924. After shocks of World War One and the beginnings of the 30s.
Friday, May 7, 1824. Coahuila y Tejas
Monday, April 8, 2024
Thursday, April 8, 1824. Empresario Grant to Don Martin de Leon.
Don Martin de Leon to the provincial delegation of San Fernando de Bexar for an Empresario Grant in Texas to settle forty-one Mexican families "of good moral character" and to found the town of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Jesús Victoria. The Mexican settlement was unusual, as most of the period grants were to colonizing Americans.
De Leon was supportive of the Texas revolution against Mexico, but disdainful of the American colonists in Texas. As a major person of Spanish heritage, his life became difficult after Texas independence, and he ended up taking his family and livestock to Louisiana.
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Wednesday, April 7, 1824. Premier of Missa Solemnis
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Wednesday, April 2, 1924. Selecting Harlan Stone.
Calvin Coolidge, just one day after saying he had decided a new Attorney General, nominated Harlan Fiske Stone to that position.
Stone, who had been the dean of Columbia Law School, would go on from that position to the United States Supreme Court and ultimately Chief Justice.
The Bulgarian Communist Party was outlawed due to its role in attempting to overthrow the government.
A large demonstration broke out at the funeral of German monarchist Wilhelm Dreyer who had died in a French prison following his dynamiting a train in the French occupied Ruhr.
The Cla McIver rescued passengers of the SS Frangestan which had caught on fire. The 1,200 mostly Muslim passengers were on their way to Mecca.
Bobby Ávila, 1954 American League batting champion and Player of the Year, was born in Veracruz. He'd later be mayor of the city.
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Tuesday, April 1, 1924. Sentencing coup plotters.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Saturday, March 29, 1924. Yesterday's news, or not. Morning mail.
Well, it was the "Night Mail" edition. You'd get it Saturday morning.
Monday, March 25, 2024
Tuesday, March 25, 1924. Casper goes blue.
Casper adopted a blue law:
I wish we had one now.
I really do.
Also, while De la Huerta was now in exile, some fighting was apparently still going on, tragically.
The Greek parliament voted to boot out the monarchy and declare a republic, subject to an April 13, 1924 referendum.
British aviators joined in a de facto race with the US Army in attempting to be the first to complete an airborne circumnavigation of the world, when British teams departed from Calshot, near South Hampton.
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Monday, March 24, 1924. Aid for the German poor.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Thursday, March 12, 1924 Exile in Florida.
Adolfo de la Huerta went into exile to Florida, following his initial flight to Los Angeles after the collapse of his revolution in Mexico. He's soon return to Los Angeles.
The World Court of the League of Nations issued its decision in the border dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia within the Orava Territory. Czechoslovakia was allowed to retain Javorina and Ždiar in return for ceding Nižná Lipnica to Poland. Poland ceded territory around Sucha Góra and Glodōvka became Suchá Hora and Hladovka in what is now Slovakia. The dispute had led to conflict in 1919.
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Monday, March 10, 1924. Denby resigns.
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Sunday, March 9, 1924. Disaster in Utah, Oil and War.
The French Cabinet held an emergency session over the collapsing franc.
Dangerous "boy gangs" were cruising Denver, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
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Saturday, March 8, 1924. The Castle Gate Disaster.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Friday, March 7, 1924. End of a Revolution and a Mutiny.
The Delahueristas surrendered with President Álvaro Obregón offering them an amnesty which they largely accepted and de la Huerta entered into the US, going to Los Angeles. Mexican army officers who had been part of the revolution who held a rank higher than major were ordered to be executed.
De la Huerta's revolution came after Obregón endorsed Plutarco Calles as his successor and was favored by Catholics, conservatives and a considerable portion of the army officers. Obregón was supported by the U.S. government, agrarians, workers and it resulted in the establishment of the Mexican Air Force.
An Irish Army demobilization, resulting in reduced numbers, met the opposition of the Irish Republican Army Organization (IRAO) which delivered an ultimatum to President Cosgrave from Major-General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton, demanding it cease. Defense Minister Richard Mulcahy ordered the arrest of both officers on charges of mutiny.
President Coolidge held a press conference:
Press Conference, March 7, 1924
Mr. President, are you approaching a decision on that matter?
Will they probably be reappointed, Mr. President?
Did the newspaper men make any suggestions, Mr. President, or give you any aid?
I noticed the statement given out yesterday, but it isn’t quite clear.
That had reference to the expiration of the terms of the two District Commissioners, didn’t it?
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Thursday, March 6, 1924. The US Olympic Equestrian Team.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Sunday, February 24, 1924. Machines.
Mexican Federals defeated rebels in Tamaulipas.
The Berliner gyrocopter No. 5 gave its first successful demonstration. U.S. Army Lt. Harold R. Harris flew it for one minutes and 20 seconds at the College Park Airport, near the University of Maryland, in front of the press and members of the U.S. Navy.
Harris has been mentioned here before due to his career as a test pilot. He lived until 1988, dying at age 92.
The Beverly Hills Speedway hosted its final race, which was attended by 85,000 automobile racing fans. Harlan Fengler broke the world's record for a 250 mile race, averaging 116.6 mph.
Fengler would go on to be the Chief Steward of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1958 until 1974. He passed away in 1981 at age 78.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
OROZCO by SK GUNS and Pascual Orozco himself.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Thursday, February 14, 1924. IBM
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company renamed itself the International Business Machines Corporation.
IBM.
Mexican Federal troops defeated rebels near Paloverde.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Sunday, February 10, 1924. Federals take Ocotlán.
Mexican Federal troops won a significant contest at Ocotlán.
Yugoslavian troops carried out the massacre of 25 Albanian-minority civilians in the Kosovan town of Dubnica, then set fire to the town as part of the effort of suppressing the Drenica-Dukagin Uprisings.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Friday, February 8, 1924. Nullifying the Teapot leases.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Thursday, Feburary 7, 1924. De la Huerta retreats and the M1911A1 is born.
Adolfo de la Huerta and his staff withdrew by boat to Mérida, Yucatán, after federal troops recaptured Veracruz.
Italy recognized the Soviet Union.
Around this time, Colt began to ship what is called the "Colt Transition Model 1911", which were actually the first of the M1911A1s.
The Colt M1911 is a John Browning designed semi-automatic pistol that can legitimately be regarded s the greatest handgun ever made, although there are, or perhaps more accurately were, a few other contenders. Other than the mostly John Browning Designed Hi Power, none of the other contenders remain in service somewhere however and the M1911 has by far the longest period of service.
Adopted by the U.S. on March 29, 1911, in 1923 the handgun received some minor modifications, the most significant of which is a curved spring housing which changed the profile of the grip. The trigger was also shortened. In 1924 the modified design started to ship, this month, from Colt. The M1911A1 designation came in 1926.
Large quantities of M1911s were made in World War One, and even larger quantities of M1911A1s were made during World War Two. So many were in fact made that no new orders were placed for M1911s through the rest of its primary service life, up to when the M9 Beretta 9mm handgun was ordered to replace it.
The M9 actually failed to completely replace the M1911A1, although it nearly did so. Some small quantities of M1911A1s that had been issued to officers remained in ongoing use. In addition, the pistol never ceased being used by special troops, who favored it over the 9mm M9 due to its larger .45ACP cartridge. The Marines nearly immediately resisted the change and adopted a reworked and custom-built M1911, with flat spring housing, as the MEU(SOC) pistol for close combat, taking in quantities of M9s at the same time.