1916: Difference between revisions

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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.
May 15 - 17-year old farmhand Jesse Washington is brutally 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.
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.

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 * 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.
+* 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]].