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Alvaro Obregon, reelected president of Mexico on 1 July, is assassinated in Mexico City by forces convinced that he and former president Plutarco Elias Calles are using their reform movement to undermine the Roman Catholic Church. On 8 November Jose de Leon Toral is sentenced to death for the assassination, and a nun, Sister Maria Concepcion Acevedo y de la Llata, is sentenced to twenty years as "intellectual author" of the crime.
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