A hurricane made landfall in Louisiana, killing 279 people. The destruction of the storm would not be surpassed for fifty years.
The Germans recaptured lost ground in the Second Battle of Champagne resulting in a French suspension of their campaign.
6,000 or more Ottoman troops were dispatched to break Armenian resistance at Urfa, Turkey.
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Facing a lack of ammunition, Aremenial militiamen engaged Ottoman troops hand to hand.
They lost, and the Ottomans entered the fort and killed the women and children inside.
The HMS Lightning struck a mine in the Thames Estuary of England and sank. The German submarine SM UC-2 struck a mine in the North Sea and sank.
French commander Henri Gouraud was wounded at Gallipoli and replaced by his divisional commander, Maurice Bailloud.
A telegram was sent to the Secretary of State from El Paso.
Collector Cobb to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
El Paso, June 30, 1915.
Trial Huerta and others postponed until July 12. When Huerta left Federal building there was repetition of scene of June 27; he was given an ovation by his partisans who are assembled in El Paso.
Cobb.
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Turkish troops massacred Armenian residents of Smyrna Province. It was a systematic murder of that city's ancient Armenian population. Ultimately the Turks would set on fire the Armenian quarter of the city and end its eons old Armenian heritage.
Allied troops landed at Canakkale to set up a neutral zone between Greece and Turkey.
Seeing a split of the Communist Party in Russia coming, Lenin proposed that Trotsky become Lenin's Sovnarkom deputy. Trotsky declined.
Curtiss had a glider out.
The USGS was out again with their cameras in the Glen Canyon area.
Headline in the New York Times.
The French failed in their effort to capture the monastery stronghold at Vardar.
Walter M. Geddes, finding his witness to the Armenian genocide too much to bear, killed himself at Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. He had been working in Aleppo when he witnessed the Ottoman atrocities and had recorded what he saw for the American embassy.
He, too, was a victim of Ottoman barbarity.
Mary Pickford was the story of the film adaptation of Madama Butterfly, which is an odd thought given that the silent movie era was still ongoing.
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The German General Staff restricted German airships to bombing London's docks and harbor works.
The Battle of Musa Dagh concluded as a rare Armenian victory over the Ottomans, after a prolonged defensive battle. The Armenians were evacuated by the French Navy to Port Said.
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The 1915 Galveston hurricane reached the center of the Gulf of Mexico and turned northwards towards the U.S. coast.
There was much ado about Carranza.
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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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Hard fighting at Gallipoli continued on.
British forces were ordered to capture Hill Q at night, but disorientation and friendly fire caused the effort to fail.
British infantry of the 32nd Bde were to exhausted after a night march and were destroyed in a Ottoman bayonet charge.
Fighting died down at Lone Pine.
Swedish diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd released a report stating: "It is obvious that the Turks are taking the opportunity to, now during the war, annihilate the Armenian nation so that when the peace comes no Armenian question longer exists."
The HMS Lynx struck a mine in the North Sea and sank.
The German auxiliary cruiser SMS Meteor was scuttled in the North Sea.
The news of yesterday's fighting in Texas hit the front pages in Casper.
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Carrancistas in support of the Plan of San Diego raided the Norias Ranch near Kingsfield Texas, but were held off by Texas Rangers and local peace officers.
Ian Hamilton, commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, met with Gen. Frederick Stopford and noted that progress a Suvla Bay was too slow. He pushed Stopford to up the hour of an attack on Ottoman defenses by twelve hours.
Reports began to come out of Syria that Armenians were dying in droves.
A New Zealand assault on Chunuk Bair failed. Albert Downing, age 29, a former New Zealand rugby player, for the New Zealand national rugby union team and the Marist Brothers Old Boys RFC was killed in the fight. William George Malone, age 56, commanding the New Zealand troops was as well.
The German High Seas Fleet attempted to clear Russian minefields around the Gulf of Riga
The Ottoman battleship Barbaros Hayreddin, formerly the SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, was torpedoed and sunk in the Sea of Marmara off Bolayır, Turkey by British submarine HMS E11.
The British armed merchant cruiser SS India was torpedoed and sunk in the Norwegian Sea off Bodø, Nordland, Norway by German submarine SM U-22.
The Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-12 struck a mine and sank in the Venetian Lagoon.
The British armed boarding steamer SS The Ramsey was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by German auxiliary cruiser SMS Meteor.
The Catholic Centre Party was established in Portugal. It had already won one seat.
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Pablo Gonzáles Garza reentered Mexico City and Venustiano Carranza took up residence in the National Palace.
Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. reported to the U.S. government that during a meeting with Interior Minister Talaat Pasha, it was confirmed that the Ottoman government was pursuing a policy of deliberate and planned deportations of ethnic Armenians.
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It was Australia Day for the first time.
The flamethrower was used in combat for the firs ttime by the Germans (of course), against the British, at Hooge, Belgium.
Hampartsoum Boyadjian, Armenian partisan, was hanged with 12 others at a prison in Kayseri, Turkey.
The British cargo ship Iberian was sunk by the U-28.
Headline in the Winnipeg Tribune:
It probably isn't, but you aren't going to live forever anyway.
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With the country already in a state of civil war, Mexico's governmental Convention convened its last meeting.
The RM Amalfi was sunk by the German submarine UB-15.
The Italians failed to break through Austro Hungarian lines in the Alps.
A bomb planted by Eric Muenter, who had already killed himself, exploded on the munitions ship SS Minnehaha. Damage was minor.
Swedish diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd, stationed in Constantinople, reported to his government that "persecutions of the Armenians have reached hair-raising proportions". He predicted Armenian extermination.
Tornadic weather hit Kentucky hard. A major windstorm caused significant damage in Cincinnati.
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Venezuelan soldier of fortune Rafael de Nogales Méndez, serving with the Ottoman Empire, met with Mehmed Reshid, Governor of the Diyarbekir province, and learned the governor had received telegraphs directly from Interior Minister Talaat Pasha with orders to "Burn-Destroy-Kill" all Armenians in the area.
Georgia Governor John M. Slaton and his wife Sarah Frances Grant left the state under escort of the National Guard after a mob angered by his decision to commute Leo Frank's sentence to life imprisonment threatened them at their home in Atlanta.
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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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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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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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The French failed to capture, Andres, Pas-de-Calais.
New Zealand troops captured a ridge overlooking ANZAC Cove.
Riots broke out between Sinhalese and Muslims in Kandy, British Ceylon.
Armenian actor Yenovk Shahen, age 34, was murdered in the Armenian Genocide.
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