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Events on Tuesday 17 July 1928 1
1880 – 1928Alvaro Obregon (1880-1928)Died 17 July 1928, aged 48Mexican revolutionary general and President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. He had just been re-elected president when a Catholic militant, Jose de Leon Toral, shot him at a restaurant in Mexico City. His death led Plutarco Elias Calles to found the ruling National Revolutionary Party.