Pablo Gonzáles Garza reentered Mexico City and Venustiano Carranza took up residence in the National Palace.
Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. reported to the U.S. government that during a meeting with Interior Minister Talaat Pasha, it was confirmed that the Ottoman government was pursuing a policy of deliberate and planned deportations of ethnic Armenians.
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Max Immelmann shot down his first aircraft.
Like most of the famous aces, he didn't survive the war.
Irish nationalist Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Patrick Pearse delivered a graveside speech including the phrase "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace".
The Endurance broke up.
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The Russians, heavily reinforced by Cossacks, defeated the Ottomans in the Battle of Kara Kilisse.
The Russians also clashed with the Polish Legions in the Battle of Jastków.
Lex Anteinternet: What's with all those dire warnings. . . .: and why are they on a blog that supposedly looks at history around the turn of the prior century? St. Francis Mission, Midwest Wyomin...Well, the loss was higher than anticipated.
It was Australia Day for the first time.
The flamethrower was used in combat for the firs ttime by the Germans (of course), against the British, at Hooge, Belgium.
Hampartsoum Boyadjian, Armenian partisan, was hanged with 12 others at a prison in Kayseri, Turkey.
The British cargo ship Iberian was sunk by the U-28.
Headline in the Winnipeg Tribune:
It probably isn't, but you aren't going to live forever anyway.
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Mexican national Adolfo Munoz, a resident of Cameron County, Texas, was arrested in San Benito Texas for plotting to rob a bank and for having connections with Mexican rebels.
The next day he was killed by some sort of masked mob. The identify of his killers has never been determined and they may have been local racists, or Mexican rebels.
Irish Republicans, led by Patrick Pearse, took over the Gaelic League at its Dundalk.
Honus Wagner became the oldest player in the 20th Century to hit a grand slam.
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Woodrow Wilson authorized 330 Marines to land at Port-au-Prince to safeguard the interests of American businesses operating in the country, following the lynching and murder of Haitian president Vilbrun Guillaume Sam.
The occupation would last until 1934.
The Bayonne refinery strike ended in receipt of better pay and an eight hour day.
The Norwegian ocean liner Trondhjemsfjord was sunk by the SM U-41
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Mexican raiders burned a railway bridge belonging to St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. In response, Governor James E. Ferguson to ordered a unit of Texas Rangers to assist local law in keeping order in the area.
The Bandit War was a result of the instability of Mexico, then fighting the Mexican Revolution.
Italian forces occupied the Cappuccio Wood.
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The mid teens were freakishly wet, leading to high crop yields throughout the United States. This in turn contributed to a boom in wartime homesteading, due to the increase in crop prices caused by the war.
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The Eastland capsized in Chicago River drowning 844 people.
The U-36 was sunk in the North Atlantic by the HMS Prince Charles, a Q-ship.
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The Imperial Russian Army began The Great Retreat on the Eastern Front. The Central Powers crossed the Vistula.
The British government introduced the Elections and Registration Act which required all British citizens aged 15 to 65 to be registered by August 15.
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