Tuesday, June 15, 1915. Killing the Armenians of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.

The Turks hung  twenty activists with the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party in the Sultan Beyazıt Square of Constantinople.

The victims included Armenian leaders Paramaz, Aram Achekbashian, and Kegham Vanigian.

The party still exists.

British and Canadian forces captured the front line northwest of La Bassée, France but were then pushed back by German grenades and a shortage of ammunition.

French aircraft raided Baden and Karlsruhe, Germany.

Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia died at age 56 of ill health, his condition having worsened due to World War One due to the stress of having close family members in the army.  After his death his diaries revealed that he had been a tormented homosexual.

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Sunday, June 13, 1915. Fighting in what became Poland, and is now part of Ukraine. There's a reason for Grape Nuts.

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