Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Monday, June 15, 1925. Flying out.

The Amundsen Polar Expedition team of six explorers, stranded since May 22 near the North Pole, was able to depart on Amundsen's Dornier Wal N-25 seaplane.  A second seaplane was left behind.

The Philadelphia Athletics tied the record for greatest comeback in a major league baseball game.  Trailing 14 to 2, after six innings, the Athletics scored 13 runs in the eighth inning to win, 17 to 15, tying the record set on June 18, 1911 by the Detroit Tigers against the Chicago White Sox.

Last edition:

Saturday, June 13, 1925.

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.

Friday, June 13, 2025

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

The Central Powers attacked Lemberg, which became Polish after the war as Lviv, and which is now part of Ukraine as Lvov.

A Polish squadron of 70 uhlans fighting for the Austro Hungarians charged Imperial Russian Army positions at Rokitna on this day, taking the positions, but sustaining heavy casualties.

Foreign powers were replying to notes and the British were buying horses.



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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin.

 


Capuchin Friar Blessed Leonard Melki was murdered along with other Christians, including Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, by Ottoman troops at Mardin.


Included in the murdered was Blessed Ignace Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.

The French advanced 550 yards at Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

British and French forces took control of all garrisons around Garua, German Cameroon.

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Wednesday, June 10, 1925. Creation of the United Church of Canada.

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Thursday, June 10, 1915. Cházaro becomes the disputed President of Mexico.

Francisco Lagos Cházaro became acting contested president of Mexico under convention of the Convention of Aguascalientes.  Carranza, who had declared himself president, did not recognize the Cházaro government.

Today In Wyoming's History: June 101915 Girl Scouts founded.  This was an expansion of the scouting movement started by English Lord Baden Powell, which was a significant movement at the time.

A portion of their guidebook follows on the link.

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Wednesday, June 9, 1915. Bryan resigns, Wilson sends a letter.

Monday, June 9, 2025

Wednesday, June 9, 1915. Bryan resigns, Wilson sends a letter.


William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State due to his much more neutral position on World War One, and more specifically disagreements with the Wilson Administration's handling of the Lusitania incident.

Wilson sent another letter to Germany over the Lusitania, rejecting assertions she was carrying munitions.

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Tuesday, June 8, 1915. Germans hold back the French, news hits on Villa defeats.

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Teusday, June 8, 1915. Germans hold back the French, news hits on Villa defeats.

Just the day prior, a rosy report was given regarding Villa's position.  Now the truth was coming out.


The advertisements on the last page were interesting:


Interesting to see Harley Davidsons advertised with bicy cles and sporting goods.

The Germans regrouped to slow the French advance and recaptured their second line by the end of the day at Hébuterne.

Today In Wyoming's History: June 81915  Hoyt Hall at the University of Wyoming named for John Hoyt, UW's first president and a former territorial governor.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

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Monday, June 7, 1915. Reinforcing Gallipoli. Leaving Mexico.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Monday, June 7, 1915. Reinforcing Gallipoli. Leaving Mexico.

The French 2nd Army attacked German positions around Hébuterne, France to support the 10th Army efforts further north at Artois.

The Dardanelles Committee met in London and decided to reinforce the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force of General Ian Hamilton with three divisions from Kitchener's Army.

British pilot Reginald Warneford of No. 1 Squadron shot down a Zeppelin over Ghent, Belgium in hte first instance of an airship being taken on in that fashion.

Foreigners were leaving Mexico.



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Tuesday, June 7, 1910. Suppressing a rebellion, incorporating a town, birth of a famous photographer.

Mexican troops were dispatched to suppress an uprising by the Maya Indians in Yucatán.

Byron Wyoming was incorporated.


Farm Security Administration Marion Post Wolcott was born in New Jersey.

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Sunday, June 5, 1910. Death of O. Henry.

Friday, June 6, 2025

Sunday, June 6, 1915. Switzerland approves a war tax. The Great War comes to Wyoming.

The Allies reorganized at Gallipoli and beat back an Ottoman offensive.

The French Army captured the main road leading to Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

The Swiss population overwhelmingly approved a war tax, the first time which a Swiss referendum passed in every canton.

Today In Wyoming's History: June 61915  British commissioners began to purchase remounts in Wyoming.  The purchase of horses for British service in World War One created a boom in horse ranching which would continue, fueled both by British and American service purchases, throughout the war, but which would be followed by a horse ranching crash after the war.


 U.S. Army Remounts, Camp Kearney California, 1917.

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Saturday, June 5, 1915. German forces retook Przemyśl.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Saturday, June 5, 1915. German forces retook Przemyśl.

German forces retook the lost Austro Hungarian fortress of Przemyśl.

British forces repulsed a major Ottoman counter attack at Gallipoli.

Women obtained the franchise in Denmark and Iceland.

The U-14 was sunk in the North Sea by the HMT Oceanic II.  

The HMS E-11 slipped back through the Dardanelles.


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Friday, June 4, 1915. Bring Your Horses.

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Friday, June 4, 1915. Bring Your Horses.

British, French, and Indian forces made a third and final attempt to capture Achi Baba on the Gallipoli peninsula but were repulsed.  Both side, sustained heavy casualties.

World War One was impacting Wyoming's economy:



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Thursday, June 3, 1915. Battle of León.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Thursday, June 3, 1915. Battle of León.

Troops under the command of Constitutionalist Álvaro Obregón fought those under Pancho Villa at León, Guanajuato in Mexico. 

Obregón lost his right arm in a grenade attack but Villa was decisively defeated in the battle.


The British Indian Army defeated Ottoman troops on the Tigris between the towns of Amara and Qurna, Mesopotamia (now Iraq).

Austro Hungarian troops drove the Russians back to the Dniester.

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Wednesday, June 2, 1915. Wilson: 'Form a Government'.

Monday, June 2, 2025

Wednesday, June 2, 1915. Wilson: 'Form a Government'.

President Wilson was growing irritated at the inability of Mexico to form a government.


The French commenced a pre attack three day barrage on German defenses around Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

Armenians began a month long resistance against the Ottoman Empire due to the genocide  using a fort in the Giresun Province of Turkey.  The uprising was sparked by news that the genocide was coming their way.

Ceylon's Governor Robert Chalmers declared martial law in the colony to arrest violence between Muslims and Buddhists.

Last edition:

Tuesday, June 1, 1915. Przemyśl.