Monday, August 16, 1915. Entering Texas.

The 1915 Galveston Hurricane approached the coast of Texas.

The storm was on the cover of the local Casper paper, as well as news of ongoing border problems.

The Allies promised Serbia the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian.

The Battle of the Gulf of Riga took place in which the German battleships SMS Nassau and Posen led over 30 torpedo boats to breach Russian naval defenses in the Baltic Sea gulf but lost a destroyer and a minesweeper during the attack.  An attempt to land German troops during the attack failed.

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Sunday, August 15, 1915. Byng and Carranza.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenian Genocide, British Army, Gallipoli, Landing at Suvla Bay, Mexican Border War, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, World War One

Friday, August 13, 1915. Confused situation in Mexico.

No invasion was really coming, but the situation was pretty confused.

Fighting ebbed at the Gallipoli battle of Krithia Vineyard with neither side being able to advance.

The HMT Royal Edward was sunk by the UB-14.

The Bisson sak the Austro Hungarian submarine U-3.

The British liner Campania was grounded by the 1915 Galveston Hurricane, at Galveston.

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Thursday, August 12, 1915. Trouble in Texas.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Aircraft, boats and ships, British Army, Gallipoli, Haiti, Mexican Border War, Royal Navy, Texas, World War One

Wednesday, August 11, 1915. Yeoman's Tenth Law of History at work. The Ottomans kill the Armenian Intellectuals.

The Ottoman Empire began the murder of 2,345 Armenian intellectuals held at Çankırı and Ayaş.  Victims included; 

Dikran Chökürian, writer and editor

Armen Dorian, poet

Parunak Ferukhan, musician

Melkon Giurdjian, writer and academic

Ardashes Harutiunian, poet and literary critic

Diran Kelekian, academic

Karekin Khajag, journalist

Garabed Pashayan Khan, physician

Shavarsh Krissian, athlete and sports journalist

Levon Larents, novelist

Kegham Parseghian, journalist

Smpad Piurad, writer and activist

Jacques Sayabalian, writer

Vartkes Serengülian, politician

Ruben Sevak, poet

Parsegh Shahbaz, lawyer and politician

Harutiun Shahrigian, politician

Siamanto, Armenian poet

Hagop Terzian, chemist and historian

Haig Tiriakian, politician

Krikor Torosian, writer

Daniel Varoujan, poet

It's worth noting that repressive regimes always go after the intellectuals.

There's utterly no excusing the Ottoman genocide, and yet Turkey continues to basically deny it.

Cpt. Alfred John Shout, an Australian Army officer of New Zealand birth, performed the actions that caused him to be awarded a posthumous Victoria's Cross:

His Majesty The KING has been pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men: —

Captain Alfred John Shout, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.

For most conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula.

On the morning of the 9th August, 1915, with a very small party Captain Shout charged down trenches strongly occupied by the enemy, and personally threw four bombs among them, killing eight and routing the remainder.

In the afternoon of the same day, from the position gained in the morning, he captured a further length of trench under similar conditions, and continued personally to bomb the enemy at close range under very heavy fire until he was severely wounded, losing his right hand and left eye.

This most gallant officer has since succumbed to his injuries.

A weather station in San Juan, Puerto Rico recorded a 29.60 inHg (1,002 mb) pressure reading and winds speeds up to 60 mph (97 km/h) as the eye of the 1915 Galveston Hurricane passed south of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. 

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Tuesday, August 10, 1915. Storms

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Tuesday, August 10, 1915. Storms

As if border raids weren't enough of a problem for Texas, the 1915 Galveston hurricane became just that on this day, being observed north of Barbados.

The Battle of Lone Pine concluded at Gallipoli with the Australians taking 2,277 men killed or wounded, with Ottoman estimates were estimated between 5,000 and 6,000. The Ottoman's prevailed, but at a heavy price.

The Ottomans overwhelmed British defenses at Chunuk Bair.

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Monday, August 9, 1915. Hard fighting at Gallipoli.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenian Genocide, Battle of Chunuk Bair, Battle of Lone Pine, British Army, Gallipoli, German Kriegsmarine, Landing at Suvla Bay, Mexican Border War, Newspapers, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, press, Royal Navy

Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the "Great Galveston Hurricane" made landfall.  It killed no less than 8,000 people and maybe up to 12,000 and destroyed Galveston.

It remains the fourth deadliest storm in U.S. history.

The water rose 8'.

Notable in this, this was a slow moving hurricane.  It'd be hard to imagine this occurring today.  In Galveston, it wouldn't, as a seawall was built after the storm which was tested, and passed the test in the 1915 Galveston Hurricane.

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Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.

Tuesday, August 17, 1915. The hurricane hits Galveston.

Waves hitting the seawall.

The 1915 Galveston Hurricane made landfall.  Atmospheric pressure was recorded at 27.76 inHg (940 mb) with wind speeds of 135 mph (217 km/h) leading to $921 million in damage, but the construction of the seawall in the city following the 1900 Hurricane prevented large scale loss of life. 

The German battleships SMS Nassau and Posen dueled with the Russian battleship Slava at Riga.

Jewish American Leo Frank was abducted from his prison cell in Milledgeville, Georgia and lynched for the alleged murder of former employee of the plant he supervised, the impoverished 13-year-old Mary Phagan in Atlanta.  The mob included a former Governor.

While Frank was convicted of the crime of rape and murder, there are significant doubts about his guilt, which is why the original sentence of death was commented to life in prison.

Charles Kettering patented the electric starter for automobiles.

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Monday, August 16, 1915. Entering Texas.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Battle of the Gulf of Riga, German Kriegsmarine, Imperial Russian Navy, Mexican Border War, Texas, Weather, World War One