William S. Benton, a British rancher with Chihuahua holdings, was executed in Juarez by Villistas, after a "court-martial". He was accused of making an attempt on Villa's life, but his associates claimed he had no views on the Mexican Revolution at all.
More on this from a Scottish blog:
Pancho Villa murders Keig man
Rosa Luxemburg was tried in a Frankfurt court on charges of encouraging public disobedience and sentenced to a year in prison. In the Court she stated.
When, as I say, the majority of people come to the conclusion that wars are nothing but a barbaric, unsocial, reactionary phenomenon, entirely against the interests of the people, then wars will have become impossible.
Nice sentiment, but shallow thought.
Luxemburg herself has always struck me as not being too deep. Perhaps I'm wrong as she remains the deluded darling of the far left, and maybe there's more to her than my very limited knowledge is aware of.
James William Humphyrs Scotland made the first cross-country flight in New Zealand. On the same day, Winston Churchill, serving as First Lord of the Admiralty, flew as a passenger in a Sopwith Sociable.
Legal, Alberta, was founded.
