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.
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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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The Central Powers attacked Lemberg, which became Polish after the war as Lviv, and which is now part of Ukraine as Lvov.
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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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 10: 1915 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.
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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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Just the day prior, a rosy report was given regarding Villa's position. Now the truth was coming out.
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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 8: 1915 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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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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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 6: 1915 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.
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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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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.
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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.
Austro Hungarian troops drove the Russians back to the Dniester.
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President Wilson was growing irritated at the inability of Mexico to form a government.
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.
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German infantry occupied three large forts around Przemyśl.
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The British Antarctic Expedition departed from London with a goal of reaching the South Pole in December..
The first European American settlements on the banks of the Iditarod were made when a steamer brought gold prospectors to within eight miles of a gold strike.
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The Union of South Africa was created from a merger of the British Cape Colony and Colony of Natal, and the conquered Boer republics.
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