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What Happened In July 1915 In History

Historical Events for July, 1915

  • 1st » 'Leutnant' Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Luftstreitkräfte 'Fliegertruppe' air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a Synchronization gear synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker E.I Fokker M.5K/MG 'Eindecker'.
  • 7th » World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
  • 7th » An International Railway (New York – Ontario) e.g International Railway Tram known as trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
  • 7th » Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Sri Lanka named Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
  • 16th » Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
  • 16th » First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded.
  • 24th » The passenger ship SS Eastland or S.S. 'Eastland' capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • 25th » Royal Flying Corps RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three Luftstreitkräfte German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front (World War I) Western Front.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1915

  • 1st » Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
  • 1st » Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
  • 1st » Jean Stafford, American author and academic (d. 1979)
  • 1st » Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (d. 1998)
  • 2nd » Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Italian-English soldier and politician
  • 5th » John Woodruff, American runner (d. 2007)
  • 7th » Margaret Walker, American author and poet (d. 1998)
  • 9th » David Diamond (composer) or David Diamond, American composer (d. 2005)
  • 13th » Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (d. 1989)
  • 15th » Albert Ghiorso, American chemist (d. 2010)
  • 16th » Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
  • 17th » Fred Ball, American actor (d. 2007)
  • 22nd » Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
  • 24th » Enrique Fernando, Filipino jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2004)
  • 24th » Dick Sprang, American illustrator (d. 2000)
  • 25th » S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Sri Lankan businessman and politician
  • 25th » Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
  • 27th » Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (d. 1982)
  • 27th » Josef Priller, German pilot (d. 1961)
  • 28th » Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate
  • 29th » Bruce R. McConkie, American religious leader (d. 1985)
  • 29th » Francis W. Sargent, American politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)

Famous Deaths for July 1915

  • 2nd » Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
  • 16th » Ellen G. White, American theologian and author (b. 1827)
  • 22nd » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
  • 26th » James Murray (lexicographer) or James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)

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