June 29, 1915: First Aerial Fire Patrol Took Flight
June 29, 1915: First Aerial Fire Patrol Took Flight
It was a forest overflight.
British colonial forces captured Ngaundere in Cameroon.
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Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
It was a forest overflight.
British colonial forces captured Ngaundere in Cameroon.
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Imperial Russian general Nikolai Yudenich arrived in Van, Turkey and appointed Armenian resistance leader Aram Manukian Governor of the Armenian provisional government.
British and Ottoman troops fought in the marshes of the Tigris between the towns of Amara and Qurna, Mesopotamia (Iraq).
The Germans pushed the French back at Souchez.
British and French colonial troops laid siege to German forts around Garua, German Cameroon.
Zeppelin L38 bombed London.
Italian Ralph DePalma won the 5th Indianapolis 500 driving a Mercedes 18/100.
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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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French troops on Hartmannswillerkopf summit in Alsace surrendered while Allies cut off food and water to German defenders on Mora mountain in German Cameroon.
A train from Guadalajara, Mexico derailed and plunged into a canyon, killing resulting in the deaths of over 600 passengers.
Oddly enough, on the same day this train carrying Carranza's troops was photographed.
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The Belgians launched an offensive at Buggenhout, near Antwerp.
French forces captured the German fort at Kousséri, German Cameroon.
Oregon's Pendleton Roundup was on.
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The UK passed the first Defence of the Realm Act authorizing wartime censorship.
French forces took Muhouse in Alsace, although they'd be pushed back out two days later.
German colonial authorities executed Cameroonian resistance leaders Martin-Paul Samba and Rudolf Duala Manga Bell for treason.
The Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition left the UK for Antarctica, seemingly out of context and now out of their own times.
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