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== Events == | == Events == | ||
* January 18 - [[Theodore Bilbo]] is elected Governor of Mississippi. | |||
* March 8 to 9 - [[Pancho Villa]] leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away. | * March 8 to 9 - [[Pancho Villa]] leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away. | ||
* May 15 - 17-year old farmhand Jesse Washington is brutally [[Lynching|lynched]] in Waco, Texas after being accused of raping and murdering his white employer's wife. | * May 15 - 17-year old farmhand Jesse Washington is brutally [[Lynching|lynched]] in Waco, Texas after being accused of raping and murdering his white employer's wife. | ||
* July 1 - Beginning of the Battle of the Somme. | * July 1 - Beginning of the Battle of the Somme. | ||
* November 18 - End of the Battle of the Somme. | * November 7 - U.S. President [[Woodrow Wilson]] wins reelection during the 1916 presidential election. | ||
* November 18 - End of the Battle of the Somme. | |||
* December 30 - [[Grigori Rasputin]] is assassinated in St. Petersburg by a group of conservative noblemen who oppose his influence over Tsar [[Nicholas II]]. | |||
== Births == | == Births == | ||
=== Villain births === | === Villain births === | ||
* January 7 - [[Elena Ceaușescu]] | * January 7 - [[Elena Ceaușescu]] | ||
* January 12 - [[P.W Botha]] | * January 12 - [[P.W Botha]] | ||
* December 16 - [[James Camb]] | |||
=== Victim births === | === Victim births === | ||
* January 23 - Airey Neave | |||
== Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||