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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The Australian 2nd Division launched a dawn attack in the Battle of Hill 60. It was unsuccessful.
And. well. . .
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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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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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The 1914 Christmas Truce, which was now over, hit the newspapers.
Ottoman forces retreating from Sarikamish bogged down in the woods outside the city. Their numbers had started out at 12,000 and were now 2,500.
Reduced from 12,000 to 2,500 soldiers and a handful of guns, the remaining units fled and freed major routes into Sarikamish for Russians to resupply.
The French retook ground lost the prior day at Champagne.
T. S. Eliot, in a letter to Conrad Aiken from Merton College, Oxford, wrote: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."
University towns were apparently much different then. FWIW, I like university towns.
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British forces numbering 10,000 attacked an Ottoman line with three times that number of troops at Hanna and were badly defeated, leaving Kut exposed.
The AFL was seeking to limit immigration in what used to be a Democratic position:
Hides and furs were being sought:
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Russian troops broke through the Ottoman defense line at Koprukoy.
Downtown Bergen, Norway, was destroyed by fire.
Three Mexican men were executed for stealing military supplies, photographs of the event were used for postcards.
Victoriano Huerta, age 65, died in El Paso. Huera had occupied the position of President of Mexico, illegitimately from February, 19, 1913 to July, 1914.
As a total aside, those dates would place setting for Sam Peckinpah's classic The Wild Bunch prior to July, 1914, which makes for one of the film's inaccuracies, albeit a minor one, in that aircraft are referenced as something that's "going to be" used in the war in Europe. World War One had not yet quite broken out, but then perhaps this can be rationalized in some fashion. Gen. Mapache is referenced as being "a butcher for Huerta".
A huge race riot occurred in El Paso on the same day in reaction to news of the Santa Ysabel Massacre, not all of which was completely accurate, even though the accurate news was bad enough.
Austro Hungarian troops retreated at Mojkovac, although the battle would go on for another eleven days with Montenegrins ultimately withdrawing.
British cavalry and artillery engaged the Ottomans at Sheikh Sa'ad.
The University of Oregon's fight song, Mighty Oregon, premiered.
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6,000 Montenegrans held back an Austrian force at Mojkovac, Montenegro.
A British relief force of 13,000 men seeking to relieve British forces at Kut ran into the Ottoman Sixth Army at Sheikh Sa'ad.
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Both sides withdrew in the Battle of Ctesiphon.
Pristina fell to the Bulgarians.
William Joseph Simmons, inspired Birth of a Nation, founded the second variant of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia. The event included the burning of a cross, something the original Klan did not do, but which the film had depicted.
Simmons would run the organization until 1922, at which point he'd be removed from power The organization reached its peak membership in 1925, and declined thereafter due to scandal.
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British forces failed to break through Ottoman lines at Ctesiphon.
Sikh troops were deployed by the British to Matruah in response to Senussi attacks.
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The Indian Expeditionary Force D, mostly made up of Indian units and under the command of Gen. Sir John Nixon, attacked a more powerful force of Ottoman troops under the command of Nureddin Pasha near the site of the ancient city of Ctesiphon, located on the Tigris southeast of Baghdad.
Both sides took high casualty rates, but the battle arrested British progress in Mesopotamia and forced a British withdrawal.
The French evacuated the Vardar region of Macedonia in light of the defeat of the Serbian Army.
While the fighting in Europe had much of the front news attention in the US, in Texas it was Villa's plight south of the border, and how that might spill into the US.
The circus/carnival train owned by Con T. Kennedy was hit head on by the engine of a Central of Georgia passenger train east of Columbus, Georgia. The resulting crash resulted in at least 15 deaths of circus workers and perhaps up to 25, who were buried in a common grave.
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Between 15 to 30 ethnic Mexicans were murdered by the Texas Rangers at the Alamo (La Matanza of Ebenezer). An entire series of murders of Hispanics occured in this era based upon guilt by ethnicity.
Field Marshal John French suggested to Gen. Foch that a determined assault at Loos could force a gap in the German line, but Foch demurred.
British and Indian troops defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Es Sinn, taking a strategic point on the Tigris and Euphrates.
J.P. Morgan and the Anglo French Financial Commission worked out the details on what was, at the time, the largest loan in history.
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