Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. Date: July 1, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. Date: July 1, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This…
World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded. Date: July 1, 1916 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1916 📅 On This Day…
Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and restores the monarchy, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republican troops regain control of the capital. Date: July 1, 1917 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July…
World War I: Russia launches an offensive against Austria-Hungary to capture Galicia, its final offensive of the war. Date: July 1, 1917 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1917 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International. Date: July 1, 1921 Read more on Wikipedia…
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. Date: July 1, 1922 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1922 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration. Date: July 1, 1923 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1923 📅 On This Day (Today)
The National War Memorial for the Dominion of Newfoundland was inaugurated by Field Marshall Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig in St. John's, Newfoundland. The date commemorates the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where at Beaumont-Hamel, 86 percent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out. Date: July 1, 1924 Read more on…
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft. Date: July 1, 1931 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1931 📅 On This Day (Today)