Mexican rebels took Tampico. The city is an important oil port.
The Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH) was founded in Paris by representatives of field hockey organizations of Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland.
A Catholic organization protested the current immigration policy.
The 4th Marine Regiment was activated at Puget Sound with Col. Joseph Henry Pendleton as its CO in anticipation of military action in Mexico.
Ōkuma Shigenobu became Prime Minister of Japan for the second time, this time at the request of Emperor Taishō after the administration under Yamamoto Gonnohyōe was dissolved due to the Siemens scandal.
The scandal had involved kickbacks from European shipbuilders for contracts with the Japanese Navy. When World War One broke out the men were pardoned and one of the ships involved, the battlecruiser Kongō, was reordered. Rebuilt as a battleship after World War One, she was sunk in November, 1945.
Chinese troops defeated the forces of Bai Yung-chang, the "White Wolf," near Sian-Foo in northwest China.
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Mexican Federal Troops were trapped by separate bands of Mexican Revolutionaries at San Pedro, Coahila, Mexico. The rebels had cut the rail lines.
It wasn't the only problem the Huerta regime was facing.
The region had been part of China until it broke away during the 1911 Revolution.
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Things really begin to go down the tubes between Gen. Huerta's Mexico and the United States when Federal authorities arrested 8 U.S. sailors from the USS Dolphin, assuming for some reason that they were Constitutionalist.
The sailors were released, but U.S. Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo demanded a 21-gun salute and formal apology from the Mexican government. Huerta gave a written apology instead but refused to have his forces raise the U.S. flag on Mexican soil to provide a 21-gun salute, for which he really can't be blamed.
US cries for intervention in Mexico, immediately followed.
On the same day, Captain Gustavo Salinas Camiña, flying for the Constitutionalists, piloted a Glenn L. Martin biplane loaded with explosives in an attack on Mexican Federal gunboats Guerrero and Morelos, which were blocking Tampico's harbor. Neither plane nor ships were hit. It was the first aerial attack on ships.
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