The US occupation of Veracruz ceased.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 23: 1914 The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. The crisis in Mexico would continue, and spill over the border early the following year, an event which would cause the Federalization of the National Guard, including Wyoming's.
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Calvin Coolidge, just one day after saying he had decided a new Attorney General, nominated Harlan Fiske Stone to that position.
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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Shoeless Joe Jackson's suit against the Chicago White Sox for back pay went to trial on this day in 1924. The trial was held in Milwaukee.
A delegation headed by Illinois Sen. William B. McKinley and former servicemen present spooled petition to Otto Wiedfeldt, the German Ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C. to release Hooven Griffis.
Yes, he was part of a party of men that had sought to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, notorious WWI slacker, from a hotel in Germany, take him to Paris and turn him over to authorities so he could be court-martialed for desertion.
The party was caught.
The headlines all speak for themselves.
Mussolini addressed 10,000 Blackshirts in the Palazzo Venezia predicting a complete election victory and stating that they were "ready to kill or die".
Hmmm. . . sort of a lot like what we're hearing now.
Mahecor Joof was crowned as the last King of Sine in Senegal, where he'd be allowed limited power until his death in 1969.
US warships were ordered to Vera Cruz.
On the same day, rebel forces took Villahermosa, capital of the Mexican state of Tabasco.
And Sheridan County's Sheriff had been served with an Order To Show Cause by the Governor. The Sheriff was accused of being drunk on duty, which is bad enough, but this was of course during Prohibition.
This power is little known, but it still exists. The Governor can remove a sheriff, or any county officer, for cause. A sheriff has been removed by a Governor as recently as 2014.
President Wilson ordered American forces out of Veracruz.
The pro German Boer Maritz rebellion started in South Africa when Commandant General of the Union Defence Force Christian Frederic Beyers resigned from his commission in protest of the South African government's decision to provide military support to the British Empire.
Beyers, along with General Koos de la Rey then traveled to the armory at Potchefstroom to meet with commanding officer Major Jan Kemp. De la Rey was killed by police fire on the way.
Allied forces in France commenced digging trenches, the first ones dug in the Great War.
Gertie, the Wonderfully Trained Dinosaur, premiered.
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Victoriano Huerta resigned as president of Mexico and left for Vera Cruz and exile. Francisco S. Carvajal became interim president.
Carvajal was a lawyer and government official whose position was merely transitional. After completing it, which took a month, he left for the United States where he married. He returned to Mexico in 1922, resuming his prior occupation of lawyer, and died in 1932 at age 61.
Rasputin was declared out of danger. He had, as readers will be recalled, been stabbed by a female assailant earlier in 1914.
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The House of Lords rejected the Women's Suffrage Bill. The vote was 104 to 60. A person has to wonder if the recent terror strikes by suffragist had a negative impact.
Cheyenne revealed that Gen. Funson was authorized to "extend his lines in Mexico", by which readers learned the paper was referring to Vera Cruz, not anywhere on the border.
With Federal troops arriving, John R. Lawson of the United Mine Workers ordered miners to lay down their arms, which they did on this day, but not before an additional fifteen Colorado minders were killed.
Fighting in Veracruz ceased and the occupation of the city began.
35,000 obsolescent German, Austrian and Italian rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were smuggled into Ulster from Germany and distributed by automobile in the Larne Gun Running incident to Ulster loyalists in anticipation of fighting over the issue of independence, with the Ulster Volunteers opposed to it.
Captain Robert Bartlett and Kataktovik reached Emma Town having traveled 700 miles in their effort to secure relief for his stranded party. They secured passage there to Emma Harbour, a weeks journey, so that he could travel to Alaska by ship from there.
The Brooklyn Federal League team was photographed.
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The first game was between the Chicago Whales and the Kansas City Packers.
The Casper paper may have been a bit off the mark:
The Titanic Engineers' Memorial was unveiled at Southampton, UK.
Babe Ruth, age 19, pitched his first major league game for the Baltimore Orioles.
A force of 2,300 U.S. Marines and Sailors landed in Vera Cruz over the spat the US was engaging in over the Tampico Affair. Fighting broke out by noon and the Battle of Veracruz was on.
The House of Representatives voted 337 to 37 in favor of the intervention.
The papers were full of speculation about a war between the US and Mexico.
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It was Saturday.
