July 1918 calendar

Events

• 03 Jul 1918 The Siberian Expedition is launched to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian Civil War.
• 04 Jul 1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Washington.
• 09 Jul 1918 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
• 10 Jul 1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established.
• 12 Jul 1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
• 13 Jul 1918 The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.
• 14 Jul 1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas
• 15 Jul 1918 Shooting of the Romanov family: By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and retainers are executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
• 17 Jul 1918 Longest errorless game, Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings.
• 18 Jul 1918 US and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I.
• 19 Jul 1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
• 20 Jul 1918 World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
• 21 Jul 1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
• 25 Jul 1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California
• 26 Jul 1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (three whites and one black killed).
• 27 Jul 1918 Socony 200, first concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, New York.

Famous Birthday

• Nelson Mandela

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• Ingmar Bergman

  Swedish film director, a prestigiously productive and creative artist whose lens focused darkly on landscapes of tormented guilt and...

• Abigail van Buren
• Alberto Ascari

  Italian motor racer, world motor champion 1952-53.

• Jean-Roger Caussimon

  French singer-songwriter and film actor.

• Roger Couderc

  Souillac Journalist.

• Pierre Sabbagh

  A major personality in French television, as a journalist, producer and director.

• Ann Landers
• Kannoth Karunakaran
• Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
• Archie Harris (track and field)
• Hank Jones

  American pianist composer and bandleader (d. 2010).

• Renaud Mary
• Joseph Rovan
• Cora Vaucaire

  French singer and performer, nicknamed 'La Dame Blanche de Saint-Germain-des-Prés' (The White Lady of Saint-Germain-des-Pres).

• Bertram Brockhouse

  Canadian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003).

• Alec Bedser
• Robert K Morgan
• James Hall

  American novelist.

• Jay Wright

  Forrester invented random-access magnetic core memory.

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Famous Deaths

• Count von Mirbach

  German ambassador to Moscow.

• Aleksei N Romanov

  Son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13.

• Alexandra Fjodorova

  Wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46.

• Anastasia N Romanova

  Daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17.

• Botkin

  Personal Physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.

• Charitonov

  Cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.

• Demidova

  Lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.

• Maria Romanova

  Daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.

• Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch

  Last tsar of Russia, executed at 50.

• Olga Romanova

  Daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.

• Tatyana Romanova

  Daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.

• Trupp

  Lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.

• Eduard "Mick" Mannock

  British WWI flyer (Victoria Cross).

• Chaim Soloveitchik

  Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar.

• Franiska zu Reventlow

  Writer, dies at 47.

• Joost van Vollenhoven

  Netherlands -- Governor-General (French West-Africa).

• Mohammed V Resjad

  Sultan of Turkey (1909-18).

• Sultan Mehmed

  V of the Ottoman Empire (Born 1844).

• Family of

  Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich (Born 1868).

• Grand Duchess

  Elizabeth Fyodorovna (Born 1864).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Victor Military Band - Liberty Forever!
2. Reinald Werrenrath - Lafayette (We Hear You Calling)
3. Henry Burr - Three Wonderful Letters from Home
4. Original Dixieland Jazz Band - At the Jazz Band Ball
5. Al Jolson - Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land