100 years ago today President Wilson delivers a written message to Congress stating that the US is neutral so far as choosing sides in the Mexican civil war goes. He says that neither side should receive any aid from north of the border and all Americans should leave the country. He says the the US cannot "be the partisans of either party" nor "the virtual umpire between them". British aviator Harry Hawker was about two thirds of the way from becoming the first person to fly around the British Isles and claiming a $25,000 prize offered by the newspaper The Daily Mail when he crashes his seaplane in the Irish Sea near the coast at Loughshinny. Hawker blamed the crash on his rubber soled boots which slipped off rudder bar at a critical moment, plunging the craft into the sea. He escaped with only a broken arm. The Daily Mail presented him with a smaller prize of a thousand pounds "in recognition of his skill and courage". The boots were ruined by the saltwater. A meteorite crashes into the Sakonnet River near Tiverton, Rhode Island. Reports said that it sounded like a twelve inch gun being fired because it could be heard 20 miles away and it broke many nearby windows. New York City police arrest a woman, posing as a man, for vagrancy after receiving complaints that she was seen in various saloons. When arraigned before the magistrate she said, “I am tired of being a girl. I want to work with men and get a man’s pay. I am tired of the worries of a girl who works in factories at a salary that will not keep body and soul together.” Serbia announces it will boycott the Carnegie Commission investigating atrocities during the Balkan Wars.
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:03:29 +0000
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