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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. | ||