July 1915 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of the Military Forces.
• 03 Jul 1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
• 07 Jul 1915 World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
• 09 Jul 1915 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa.
• 10 Jul 1915 British / South African troops march into German SW-Africa
• 16 Jul 1915 Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
• 17 Jul 1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo
• 18 Jul 1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men
• 19 Jul 1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
• 24 Jul 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die.
• 25 Jul 1915 RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
• 26 Jul 1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
• 28 Jul 1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings.
• 29 Jul 1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR

Famous Birthday

• Saul Bellow
• Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr
• Norman Blunsdon

  British astrologer and spiritualist who invented the 3-D chart.

• Mario Del Monaco

  Italian tenor opera singer and recording artist.

• Gérald Antoine
• Henri Decaë
• Guy Schoeller

  French editor, who created in 1979 the collection "Bouquins" (English: "Mouthpieces") published by Robert Laffont.

• Hilde Sessak
• Robert Hunter

  Scottish educator, a Professor of Materia Medica; Pharmacology and Therapeutics at St. Andrew's University and later at Dundee University.

• Jerome Lawrence

  American writer, a playwright in collaboration with Robert E. Lee from 1942.

• John Woodruff

  American Olympian in track and field; he won the gold at the 1936 games.

• Jean Stafford

  American writer and Pulitzer Prize winning short-story writer in 1970, she also wrote novels, the first of which was published in 1944,...

• Comoros (Union of the Comoros)
• Willy Guhl
• Charles Townes

  American physicist, Nobel Prize winner and educator.

• Henri Bonnard
• Jacques Silberfeld
• Richard M Scammon
• Vernon Richards
• Pattabhi Jois
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Famous Deaths

• Francesco Fanciulli

  Composer, dies on 62nd birthday.

• Vilbrun G Sam

  Rebellion leader / President of Haiti, lynched.

• Hendrik W Mesdag

  Painter (Panorama Mesdag).

• Ludwik Grossman

  Composer, dies at 80.

• George William Louis Marshall-Hall

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Porfirio Diaz

  Mexican general and politician, 19th, 21st and 23rd President of Mexico (Born 1830).

• Sir Sandford Fleming

  Canadian engineer and inventor (Born 1827).

• James Murray

  Scottish professional boxer.

• Ellen White

  American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (Born 1827).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Fields - He Comes Up Smiling
2. Brown Brothers - That Moaning Saxophone Rag
3. Helen Clark & Joseph Phillips - Don't Take My Darling Boy Away
4. Charles Kellogg - Songs of Our Native Birds
5. Ada Jones & Will Robbins - My Little Girl