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Month July 1918 Calendar

About Month of July Calendar

  • July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere.

    July symbols: The birthstone of July is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment. Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onwards).

Historical Events for July, 1918

  • Day of Week 4th » Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne.
  • 4th » World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel, Somme called Le Hamel on the Western Front (World War I) e.g Western Front.
  • 4th » Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
  • Day of Week 9th » Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest Train wreck e.g rail accident in United States history.
  • Day of Week 12th » The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship 'Japanese battleship Kawachi or Kawachi' blows up at Yamaguchi Prefecture known as Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
  • Day of Week 15th » World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the Marne (river) known as River Marne with a Germany or German attack.
  • Day of Week 17th » Nicholas II of Russia Tsar Nicholas II of Russian Empire Russia and his immediate family and retainers Shooting of the Romanov family are murdered by Bolshevik Cheka Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Repub
  • 17th » The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SMU U-55; five lives are lost.
  • Day of Week 21st » SMU U-156 2 shells Attack on Orleans Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1918

  • 2nd » Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
  • 3rd » S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1974)
  • 4th » Eppie Lederer, American journalist (d. 2002)
  • 4th » Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
  • 4th » Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (d. 2013)
  • 4th » Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
  • 5th » K. Karunakaran, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 2010)
  • 5th » René Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (d. 1999)
  • 5th » Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian general and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
  • 5th » George Rochberg, American composer and educator (d. 2005)
  • 6th » Sebastian Cabot (actor) called Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian actor and singer (d. 1977)
  • 8th » Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
  • 8th » Irwin Hasen, American illustrator
  • 8th » Craig Stevens (actor) named Craig Stevens, American actor and singer (d. 2000)
  • 9th » Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 2012)
  • 9th » Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
  • 10th » James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author
  • 11th » Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (d. 2009)
  • 12th » Mary Glen-Haig, English fencer
  • 13th » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
  • 13th » Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator
  • 14th » Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
  • 14th » Arthur Laurents, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2011)
  • 15th » Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
  • 15th » Doris Lussier, Canadian actor (d. 1993)
  • 15th » Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
  • 15th » Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
  • 15th » Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician (d. 1979)
  • 16th » Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
  • 17th » Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan politician, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
  • 17th » Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
  • 18th » Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
  • 20th » Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and dancer (d. 2006)
  • 23rd » Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
  • 23rd » Ruth Duccini, American actress (d. 2014)
  • 23rd » Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
  • 24th » Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (d. 2012)
  • 25th » Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
  • 26th » Marjorie Lord, American actress and singer
  • 27th » Leonard Rose, American cellist and educator (d. 1984)
  • 29th » Mary Lee Settle, American author and academic (d. 2005)
  • 31st » Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate
  • 31st » Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2010)
  • 31st » Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998)

Famous Deaths for July 1918

  • 3rd » Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1844)
  • 12th » Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
  • 14th » Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
  • 17th » people of the Shooting of the Romanov family
  • 18th » Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918) or Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1864)
  • 22nd » Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1898)
  • 29th » Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
  • 30th » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, journalist, and poet (b. 1886)

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