July 1918
{{short description|List of events during July, 1918}}
{{Events by month|1918}}
{{calendar|year=1918|month=July}}
The following events occurred in July 1918:
File:Sultan Muhammed Chan V., Kaiser der Osmanen 1915 C. Pietzner.jpg, dies on the Ottoman throne]]
File:Russian Imperial Family 1913.jpg Nicholas and his entire family are murdered by the Bolsheviks.]]
File:Sultan Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire.jpg, last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]]
[[July 1]], 1918 (Monday)
- Eight tons of TNT exploded at a shell factory in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, killing 134 people. The explosion was so great only 32 bodies were positively identified.{{cite news| first=Jonathan| last=Brown| title=A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: When corpses fell from the Nottinghamshire sky| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments/a-history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments-when-corpses-fell-from-the-nottinghamshire-sky-9582884.html| newspaper=The Independent| location=London| date=2014-07-03| access-date=2014-07-07}}
- French president Raymond Poincaré granted the Czechoslovak National Council a special diplomatic charter in anticipation of it becoming a governing body for an independent Czechoslovakia.Benes, Edvard, My War Memoirs, Translated by Paul Selver, Houghton Mifflin, 1928, pp. 385-389
- U.S. Navy troopship {{USS|Covington|ID-1409|6}} was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France by German submarine {{SMU|U-86||6}} with the loss of six of her crew.{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1476.html |title=USS Covington |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=22 October 2012}}
- The Royal Air Force established the No. 80 Wing at Serny, Pas-de-Calais, France.[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C4090107 Air Ministry, 1938, "80 Wing R.A.F.", Air Historical Branch: Papers (Series I)], AIR 1/1938/204/245/8.[http://www.rafweb.org/Organsation/Wings2.htm Wings 51–110 at Air of Authority.]
- The New York City Subway added new stations to the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, including Whitehall Street, Rector Street, Cortlandt Street, Chambers Street, Franklin Street, Canal Street, Houston Street, Christopher Street, 14th Street, 18th Street, 23rd Street, and 28th Street. As well, the Anderson–Jerome Avenues and Sedgwick Avenue stations for the IRT Ninth Avenue Line also opened.{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/02/106215771.pdf|title=Open New Subway to Regular Traffic — First Train on Seventh Avenue Line Carries Mayor and Other Officials — To Serve Lower West Side — Whitney Predicts an Awakening of the District — New Extensions of Elevated Railroad Service|date=July 2, 1918|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=November 6, 2016|page=11|issn=0362-4331}}
- Japanese novelist Miekichi Suzuki published the first edition of the children's magazine Red Bird.{{cite book|author=Scott J. Miller|title=Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJ-gLR_dwfQC&pg=PA4|access-date=30 January 2017|date=July 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6319-4|page=4}}
- Born: Ahmed Deedat, Indian-South African missionary and theologian, known for Islam missionary work in South Africa, author of The Choice: Islam and Christianity; in Tadkeshwar, British India (present-day India) (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died:
- Charles I. D. Looff, 66, American inventor, designer of popular carnival rides such as carousels for the Santa Monica Pier (b. 1852){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Theodore Lukens, 69, American conservationist, noted advocate for forming forest reserves in the United States including the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve and the San Bernardino Forest Reserve (b. 1848){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 2]], 1918 (Tuesday)
- A U.S. munitions factory in Split Rock, New York, caught on fire and exploded, killing at least 50 workers.{{cite book |last=Foley |first=Jasena |title=The Night the Rock Blew Up: Disaster at the Split Rock Munitions Works, July 2, 1918 |editor1-first=Mark W. |editor1-last=DeLawyer |location=Interlaken, N.Y. |publisher=Heart of the Lakes Publishing |date=1988 |isbn=9781557870315 |oclc=2197409}}{{cite book |title=Town of Onondaga |first=Mary J. |last=Nowyj |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |date=2014 |isbn=9781439646748 |chapter=The Split Rock Explosion |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iadqBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA109}}
- Daily newspaper St. Thomas Times-Journal published its first edition in St. Thomas, Ontario.Copied from [http://specials.bowesonline.com/5/history-0/default2.html History of St. Thomas Times-Journal], which took it from the book {{cite book | title = St. Thomas and Its Men of Affairs | year = 1951 | publisher = The Municipal World Limited Publishers | location = St. Thomas, Ontario }}, the copyright for which expired at the end of 2001, given that it was one of the recognized "Anonymous and pseudonymous works of joint authorship" or "Anonymous and pseudonymous works" produced in Canada per [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/C-42/bo-ga:l_I-gb:s_6//en#anchorbo-ga:l_I-gb:s_6 the Canadian Copyright Act ( R.S., 1985, c. C-42 ), Section 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605050331/http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/C-42/bo-ga:l_I-gb:s_6//en#anchorbo-ga:l_I-gb:s_6 |date=2011-06-05 }} ([http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ShowFullDoc/cs/C-42///en full version for printing]) ([http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42 HTML]) ([http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/PDF/C-42.pdf PDF])
- Died:
- Washington Gladden, 82, American religious leader, noted leader in the Social Gospel and Progressive Movements in the United States (b. 1836){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Helen Stuart Campbell, 78, American educator and industrialist, considered the pioneer of home economics (b. 1839){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
July 3, 1918 (Wednesday)
- The Siberian intervention was launched by the Allies to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian Civil War.{{cite book| first1=Joel R.| last1=Moore| first2=Harry H.| last2=Mead| first3=Lewis E.| last3=Jahns| title=The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki| location=Nashville, Tenn.| publisher=The Battery Press| year=2003| pages=47–50| isbn=089839323X}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Ireland John French issued a proclamation banning Sinn Féin, the Irish Volunteers, the Gaelic League and The Irishwomen's Council.{{Cite book |last=Holmes |first=Richard |title=The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year=2004 |orig-year=1981 |isbn=0-297-84614-0|pages=345–346}}
- The Royal Air Force established air squadron No. 139.{{cite web|title=History of 139 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/139squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}}
- The New York City Subway added new stations to the BMT Jamaica Line, including 121st Street.{{cite news|title='L' Trains Now Run Through to Jamaica |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Forest%20Parkway%20NY%20Leader%20Observer/Forest%20Parkway%20NY%20Leader%20Observer%201918-1920/Forest%20Parkway%20NY%20Leader%20Observer%201918-1920%20-%200213.pdf |access-date=April 23, 2015 |publisher=Leader Observer |location=Queens/Brooklyn, NY |date=July 4, 1918 }}
- The National Assembly of Azerbaijan established the state-run newspaper Azerbaijan.{{cite web|url=http://www.azerbaijan-news.az/|title=Azərbaycan qəzeti. Milli Məclisin orqanı|trans-title=Azerbaijan Newspaper. Component of Milli Majlis|access-date=15 December 2010|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101231234341/http://azerbaijan-news.az/|archive-date=31 December 2010|url-status=live|language=az}}
- Born:
- Benjamin Thompson, American architect, founder of Design Research; in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States (d. 2002){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Ernest Vandiver, American politician, 73rd Governor of Georgia; as Samuel Ernest Vandiver Jr., in Canon, Georgia, United States (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died:
- Benjamin Tillman, 70, American politician, 84th Governor of South Carolina, U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1895 to 1918 (b. 1847){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- D. A. Thomas, 62, Welsh industrialist and politician, leading developer of the coal industry in Wales, cabinet minister for the David Lloyd George administration (b. 1856){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 4]], 1918 (Thursday)
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- Mehmed VI succeeded as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire upon the death of his half-brother Mehmed V.Freely, John, Inside the Seraglio, 1999, Chapter 16: The Year of Three Sultans.
- Battle of Hamel – The Australian Corps under command of Lieutenant General John Monash captured Hamel, France in what became regarded as one of the most prepared battles of the entire war. Australian casualties were 1,400 while German casualties were 2,000 along with 1,600 captured.{{cite book |last=Bean |first=C.E.W |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069923/|series=Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 |volume=VI |title=The Australian Imperial Force in France during the Allied Offensive, 1918 |publisher=Angus and Robertson |year=1942 |location=Sydney, New South Wales |oclc=41008291 |pages=280–287, 326–327}}{{cite journal |last=Richardson |first=Andrew |title=Hamel, 1918 |journal=Despatches Magazine: The Newsletter of the Australian Army History Unit |issue=1 |year=2011 |pages=32–37 |oclc=771957938}}
- Austro-Hungarian submarine {{SMU|U-20|Austria-Hungary|6}} was torpedoed and sunk in the Adriatic Sea by an Italian submarine with the loss of all 18 crew.{{cite book | last = Grant | first = Robert M. | title = U-boats Destroyed: The Effect of Anti-submarine Warfare, 1914–1918 | location = Penzance | publisher = Periscope | orig-year = 1964 | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-1-904381-00-6 | oclc = 50215640 |page=163}}
- The Bristol fighter aircraft was first flown.Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 196.
- In a remarkable coincidence, two sets of famous twins were born on either side of the Atlantic Ocean on the same day. The first set were the Lederer sisters in Sioux City, Iowa, who later became known as the famous advice columnists Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren.[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/us/ann-landers-advice-giver-to-the-millions-is-dead-at-83.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm "Ann Landers, Advice Giver To the Millions, Is Dead at 83"], New York Times, June 23, 2002.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/showbiz/dear-abby-pauline-phillips-obit/index.html |title=Pauline Phillips, longtime Dear Abby advice columnist, dies at 94|work=CNN News|date= January 17, 2013}} The second were the Bedser twins Alec and Eric in Reading, Berkshire, England, who both became champion professional cricket players for the Surrey County Cricket Club.[http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/154636.html Alec Bedser – Cricketer of the Year 1947] (Accessed 21 May 2005) (Excerpt from Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1947)Rob Steen, ‘Bedser, Sir Alec Victor (1918–2010)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2014 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102513 accessed 14 February 2014]
- Born:
- Tāufaʻāhau, Tongan noble, King of Tonga from 1965 to 2006, son of Sālote; in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga (d. 2006){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Ron Ritchie, Canadian economist, founder of the Institute for Research on Public Policy; as Ronald Stuart Ritchie, in Charing Cross, Ontario, Canada (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 5]], 1918 (Friday)
- American paddle steamer Columbia capsized and sank in the Illinois River with the loss of 175 lives.{{cite news |url =https://www.pekintimes.com/article/20130517/LIFESTYLE/130519672 |title = Two generations of tragedy and loss |work =Pekin Daily Times |publisher = Gannett |date = 17 May 2013 |accessdate = 6 December 2020}}
- The United States Army established the 30th and 42nd field artillery regiments at Fort Monroe, Virginia.McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery". Field Artillery Part 2. Army Lineage Series. pp. 706–707. CMH Pub 60-11 (Part 2) [http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt2/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt2.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628003534/https://history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt2/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt2.pdf |date=2020-06-28 }}
- The Curtiss Wasp airplane was first flown.Angelucci 1987, p. 114
- South Australian Railways opened the Spalding railway line between Clare Valley and Spalding, Australia.{{cite book| last1=Quinlan| first1=Howard| last2=Newland| first2=John| title=Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000| date=2000| publisher=Australian Railway Historical Society| location=Redfern| isbn=0-909650-49-7| page=55}}
- Born:
- Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian state leader, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt; in Qalyubiyya Governorate, Sultanate of Egypt (present-day Egypt) (d. 2012){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- George Rochberg, American composer, known for compositions including String Quartet No. 3 and Nach Bach; in Paterson, New Jersey, United States (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 6]], 1918 (Saturday)
- In the Russian Civil War an uprising starts in Yaroslavl.
- The United States Army Air Service established the 1st Bombardment Wing at the Toul-Croix de Metz Airfield in France.Clay, Steven E. US Army Order of Battle, Volume 3, The Services: Air Service, Engineers, and Special Troops, 1919–41, Combat Studies Institute Press US Army Combined Arms Center Fort Leavenworth, KS
- The Royal Air Force established air squadron No. 255.{{cite web|title=History of 255 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/255squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}}
- The Gulfoss Tunnel opened for rail service in Melhus Municipality, Norway.{{cite book |last1=Bjerke |first1=Thor |last2=Stenersen |first2=Roar |title=Rørosbaneboka |year=2004 |publisher=Norsk Jernbanemuseum / Norsk Jernbaneklubb |location=Hamar |language=no |isbn=82-90286-24-4|page=121}}
- Born:
- Sebastian Cabot, English actor, best known for his supporting role in the CBS 1960s sitcom Family Affair and voice work in Disney films, including Bagheera in The Jungle Book and the narrator in the Winnie the Pooh series; as Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot, in London, England (d. 1977){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Eugene List, American classical musician, pianist for the New York Philharmonic and noted instructor with the Eastman School of Music; in Philadelphia, United States (d. 1985){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Francisco Moncion, Dominican-born American principal dancer, choreographer and charter member of the New York City Ballet; in La Vega, Dominican Republic (d. 1995){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: John Purroy Mitchel, 38, American politician, 95th Mayor of New York City; killed in a military plane crash (b. 1879){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 7]], 1918 (Sunday)
- The United States Army established the Fifth Corps in France.{{cite web|title=Lineage and Honors Information - V Corps| url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/army/bnVcorps.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817021951/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/army/bnVcorps.htm| url-status=dead| archive-date=August 17, 2011|website=U.S. Army History|publisher=U.S. Army|access-date=8 December 2017}}
- Died:
- Archbishop Andronik, 47, Russian clergy, Bishop of Perm and Solokamsk, Russia from 1914 to 1918; executed (b. 1870){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Arno Bieberstein, 34, German swimmer, gold medalist at the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1884){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 8]], 1918 (Monday)
- The Committee Pro Catalonia was established to support the actions of the Catalan National Committee formed in Paris earlier in the year to promote the idea of Catalonia being a sovereign nation from the rest of Spain.Joan Crexell i Playà, The origin of the independentist flag (in Catalan: L'origen de la bandera independentista), p. 77-80, 1984, Ed. El Llamp
- The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre opened in Gothenburg, Sweden.Bergendahl, Erik. "En Modern Institution Med Gammal Tradition". Wezäta, 1947, pp. 8-10
- Born: Craig Stevens, American actor, best known for the playing the title role in the Peter Gunn TV series; as Gail Shikles Jr., in Liberty, Missouri, United States (d. 2000){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 9]], 1918 (Tuesday)
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- An inbound local train in Nashville, Tennessee collided with an outbound express, killing 101 people and injuring 171 others in what was the deadliest train accident in American history.{{cite news|title=Nashville now and then: Off the rails| work=NashvillePost.com| first=E. Thomas| last=Wood| date=July 6, 2007}}
- British flying ace James McCudden was killed when his aircraft crashed on take-off at Auxi-le-Château, France. He had 57 victories at the time of his death, making him the seventh-highest-scoring ace of World War I.Cole, Christopher (1967). McCudden, VC. William Kimber, London. Standard Book Number 7183 0460 8, pp. 189-196
- The Swiss electrical engineering company Anonymous Society of Sécheron Workshops was established in Geneva.{{cite web |url=http://www.secheron.com/uk/our-group/history.html |title=Sécheron - History |date=1995–1998 |work=www.secheron.com |publisher=Secheron SA |access-date=23 December 2011 |archive-date=9 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209091508/http://www.secheron.com/uk/our-group/history.html |url-status=dead }}
- The U.S. Army Warrant Officer Corps was established, derived from the Coastal Artillery Mine Planters service.{{cite web |title=115 U.S. Congress House Resolution 947 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/947/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22warrant+officer%5C%22%22%5D%7D&r=1 |website=United States Congress |access-date=3 July 2018}}{{cite web |title=Rank structure of the military branches to include Warrant Officers |url=https://dacipad.whs.mil/images/Public/10-Reading_Room/03_Acronyms_Terms/Military_Ranks.pdf}}
- The Citation Star was established by the United States Congress for Americans serving in World War I, only to be replaced in 1932 by the Silver Star.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=15241&CategoryId=3&grp=4&menu=Decorations%20and%20Medals&ps=24&p=0 |title=Institute of Heraldry, Silver Star |access-date=2018-05-20 |archive-date=2015-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928054841/http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=15241&CategoryId=3&grp=4&menu=Decorations%20and%20Medals&ps=24&p=0 |url-status=dead }}
- The football club Independiente de Tandil was established in Tandil, Argentina.{{Cite web |url=http://clubindependiente.org/blog/historia/ |title="Independiente: Un Club con Historia" |access-date=2018-05-20 |archive-date=2010-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129062250/http://clubindependiente.org/blog/historia/ |url-status=dead }}
- Born:
- Jarl Wahlström, Finnish activist, 12th General of The Salvation Army; in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, noted critic of the concept of enlightenment; as Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, in Machilipatnam, British India (present-day India) (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Nile Kinnick, American football player, halfback for the Adel and Omaha Benson High School Magnet football teams, recipient of the Heisman Trophy; in Adel, Iowa, United States (d. 1943, killed in a plane crash){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 10]], 1918 (Wednesday)
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- Russia adopted a new constitution that officially declared it a Soviet republic.{{cite web |title=The first Constitution of RSFSR adopted 10 July 1918 |publisher=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library |url=http://www.prlib.ru/en-us/History/Pages/Item.aspx?itemid=588 |access-date=April 20, 2015}} The iconic Soviet emblem was released, which included the hammer and sickle wreathed in wheat (to symbolize its agricultural roots) with the red star on top. It contained the motto "Workers of the world, unite!" in the coat of arms.The law of the Russian Federation from April 21, 1992 № 2708-I «[http://constitution.garant.ru/history/ussr-rsfsr/1978/zakony/183094/ About changes and additions of the Constitution (Basic law) of the Russian SFSR]»
- British colonial forces defeated Egba rebels in Nigeria. The fighting cost 600 lives and lead to heavy taxation and forced labor policies in the African region until 1925.{{cite book|title=Cross and Scalpel: Jean-Marie Coquard Among the Egba of Yorubaland |first=Edmund M. |last=Hogan |year=2013 |publisher=Heinemann Educational Books |location=Portsmouth, NH |isbn=978-978-081-287-4|pages=299–313}}
- The Denver and Interurban Railroad in Colorado ceased all operations as passenger service was replaced with buses.{{cite web|publisher=Fort Collins Municipal Railway Society|year=2008|url=http://www.fortnet.org/trolley/hist-early.php|title=FCMR History: The Early Years|access-date=July 28, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080820132915/http://fortnet.org/trolley/hist-early.php| archive-date= 20 August 2008 | url-status= live}}
- Born:
- Chuck Stevens, American baseball player, first baseman for the Cleveland Browns from 1941 to 1948; as Charles Augustus Stevens, Jr., in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States (d. 2018){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- James Aldridge, Australian journalist and writer, author of The Sea Eagle and The Diplomat; as Harold Edward James Aldridge, in White Hills, Victoria, Australia (d. 2015){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: Fay Kellogg, 47, American architect, advocated female membership into the École des Beaux-Arts, designer of the Woman's Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn, New York and the YWCA National War Council houses at military bases during World War I (b. 1871){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 11]], 1918 (Thursday)
- Born:
- Roy Krenkel, American illustrator, best known for his fantastical artwork for Weird Science and Weird Fantasy (d. 1983){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Venetia Burney, English educator, credited by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh for coming up with the name for the dwarf planet Pluto discovered in 1930 when she was 11 (d. 2009){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 12]], 1918 (Friday)
- Haiti declared war on Germany as part of its alliance with the United States.{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/digitized-books/world-war-i-declarations/foreign.php#U |title=World War: Declarations of War from Around the World|publisher=Library of Congress}}{{cite web |url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/declarationsofwar.htm |title=Who Declared War and When|publisher = Firstworldwar.com}}
- Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi exploded off Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621 sailors.{{cite journal |last1= Lengerer |first1= Hans |editor1-last = Ahlberg |editor1-first= Lars |title= Battleships Kawachi and Settsu |date= September 2006 |page= 83 |journal= Contributions to the History of Imperial Japanese Warships |issue= Paper I}}
- Pablo Picasso married Ukrainian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova in Paris with poets and friends Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob as witnesses.{{cite news| last1=Richardson| first1=John| title=Portraits of a Marriage| url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/12/picassos-wife-200712| access-date=22 April 2018| work=Vanity Fair| issue=December 2007}}
- The United States Army established the 12th Division at Camp Devens, Massachusetts{{cite web|title=12th Infantry Division|url=http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/107-12th-infantry-division/|website=US Militia Forum|access-date=8 December 2017}} and the 100th Infantry Division at Camp Bowie, Texas.{{cite web|title=Lineage and Honors Information: 100th Infantry Division |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/100d.htm |publisher=US Army Center of Military History |access-date=22 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620214551/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/100d.htm |archive-date=20 June 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}
- Born:
- Doris Grumbach, American literary editor and writer, author of The Spoil of Flowers and Coming into the End Zone; as Doris M. Isaac, in New York City, United States (d. 2022){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Mary Glen-Haig, British fencer, gold medalist at the 1950 and 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games; as Mary Alison James, in Islington, London, England (d. 2014){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Daniel Aldrich, American academic, first chancellor of the University of California, Irvine; in Northwood, New Hampshire, United States (d. 1990){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: George Whitefield Davis, 78, American army officer, 4th Military Governor of Puerto Rico, first Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1839){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 13]], 1918 (Saturday)
- Born:
- Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver, two-time Formula One Champion; in Milan, Kingdom of Italy (present-day Italy) (d. 1955){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Heinrich Bartels, Austrian air force officer, commander of various air squadrons for the Luftwaffe during World War II including Jagdgeschwader 5, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross; in Linz, Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria) (d. 1944, killed in action){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: Lord Edward Cecil, 51, British army officer, best known for his collaborative efforts with Herbert Kitchener and Robert Baden-Powell during the Second Boer War (b. 1867){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 14]], 1918 (Sunday)
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- Battle of Abu Tellul – British and Indian forces combined to repel Ottoman forces at Abu Tellul, Palestine, in what turned out to the last major offense by the Central Powers in the Middle East. Between 425 and 540 Ottoman soldiers were captured, with another 105 killed. The British forces sustained 183 casualties.{{cite book |title=Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from June 1917 to the End of the War |last=Falls |first=Cyril |series=Official History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence |others=A. F. Becke (maps) |year=1930 |volume=2 Part II |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |location=London|oclc=256950972|page=657}}
- French passenger ship {{SS|Djemnah||2}} was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea of the coast off Libya by German submarine {{SMU|UB-105||6}} with the loss of 436 of the 754 passengers and crew on board.{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1666.html |title=Djemnah |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=15 November 2012}}
- The Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionary Party established the Transcaspian Government in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan).The British Intervention in Transcaspia, 1918-1919 by C. H. Ellis, University of California Press, 1963 p. 27
- German submarine {{SMU|UC-77||6}} struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off the coast of West Flanders, Belgium.{{cite Uboat.net|name=UC 77|id=UC+77 |type=1sub|access-date=23 February 2009}}
- American pilot Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, was shot down and killed by a German fighter over Chamery, France while on a mission with the 95th Aero Squadron.{{Citation | last = Dalton | first = Kathleen | year = 2002 | title = Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life | isbn = 0-679-76733-9 |page = 507}}
- The Royal Air Force established air squadron No. 157.{{cite web|title=History of 157 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/157squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}}
- The association football league Federação Norte-rio-grandense de Futebol was established to manage all football tournaments in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.{{cite book|title=Escudos dos Times do Mundo Inteiro|publisher=Panda Books|author=Rodolfo Rodrigues|year=2009|page=36}}
- Mammy Lou, the oldest person ever to star in a film at the claimed age of 114, appeared in the film drama The Glorious Adventure.[http://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/movie1.htm/ Earliest born person to be filmed] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929155010/http://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/movie1.htm |date=September 29, 2012 }}
- Born:
- Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director, best known for his acclaimed international films including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny and Alexander, three-time recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; as Ernst Ingmar Bergman, in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer, developer of system dynamics; in Anselmo, Nebraska, United States (d. 2016){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld, Austrian air force officer, commander of several Nachtjagdgeschwader (Night Raider) squadrons for the Luftwaffe during World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross; in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria) (d. 1944, killed in action){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died:
- Samuel Farr, 90-91, English-New Zealand architect, designed many landmarks in Christchurch including Cranmer Court and Christchurch Central City (b. 1827){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Paul Cinquevalli, 59, German performer, noted juggler for the English music hall scene (b. 1859){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 15]], 1918 (Monday)
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- Second Battle of the Marne – Germany launched a major offensive against the Allies on the Western Front, with 52 German divisions attacking 44 French divisions east and west of Reims, France. The French were supported by eight American divisions, four British divisions, and two Italian divisions in the battle. On the first day, German forces managed to secure a strategic crossing over the Marne river at Dormans.{{cite book| last1=Kitchen| first1=Martin| title=The German Offensives of 1918| date=2001| publisher=Tempus| location=Stroud| pages=182–188}}{{cite book| last1=Zabecki| first1=David T.| title=The German 1918 Offensives : A case study in the operational level of war| url=https://archive.org/details/germanoffensives00zabe| url-access=limited| date=2006| publisher=Routledge| location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/germanoffensives00zabe/page/n281 257], 261}}
- Rationing was introduced for butter, margarine, lard, meat, and sugar in the United Kingdom.{{cite book|first=Samuel J. | last=Hurwitz |title=State Intervention in Great Britain: Study of Economic Control and Social Response, 1914-1919| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQtYAQAAQBAJ| year=1949| pages=12–29| isbn=9781136931864 }}
- RAF Driffield was established west of Driffield, England.{{cite book|last1=Philpott|first1=Ian|title=The Royal Air Force The Trenchard Years 1918 to 1929|date=2005|publisher=Pen and Sword|location=Barnsley|isbn=1-84415-154-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/royalairforceenc0000phil/page/331 331]|url=https://archive.org/details/royalairforceenc0000phil/page/331}}
- The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opened a new train station in San Bernardino, California, to replace the former California Southern Railroad station that was destroyed by fire in 1916.{{cite web| url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/about/santa-fe_history.html |author=San Bernardino Associated Governments |title=A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot |year=2004 |access-date=July 17, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923200554/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/about/santa-fe_history.html |archive-date=September 23, 2006 |url-status=dead }}
- The Vancouver Police Union was established as the second unionized police force in Canada.{{cite book|first=Barbara Ann Sozan|last=Fleury|title=The Historical Development of Police Unionism: Three Case Studies from British Columbia|date=1988|publisher=MA thesis, Simon Fraser University}}
- Paramount Pictures released the film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin with young actor Marguerite Clark playing two of the child characters from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel. The film is now considered lost.{{cite book| last=Gevinson| first=Alan |title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960| year=1997| publisher=University of California Press| isbn=0-520-20964-8| page=1079}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/U/UncleTomsCabin1918.html Progressive Silent Film List: Uncle Tom's Cabin] at silentera.com
- Born:
- Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the neutron spectroscopy used to study matter; in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (d. 2003){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Brenda Milner, British-Canadian medical psychologist, credited as the founder of neuropsychology; as Brenda Langford, in Manchester, England{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 16]], 1918 (Tuesday)
- General Wilfrid Malleson led a British-Indian force of 950 men to Turkestan to counter the Soviet presence in the region and any threat against British India and Persia.Moberly, F J, Operations in Persia 1914–1919, London: HMSO, 1987. p. 335
- The Mensheviks-supported daily newspaper New Life ceased publication in Petrograd.[http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSnovaya.htm Novaya Zhizn. Newspapers and Journals]. Spartacus. Accessed March 31, 2017.
- Born:
- Paul Farnes, British fighter pilot, one of "The Few" surviving pilots of the Battle of Britain, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Medal; in Boscombe, England (d. 2020){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- John Frost, South African air force officer, commander of the 3rd and 5th South African Air Force Squadrons during World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross; in Queenstown, Union of South Africa (present-day South Africa) (d. 1942, missing in action){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Leonard T. Schroeder, American army officer, first American soldier to land at Utah Beach on D-Day, recipient of the Silver Star and Bronze Star Medal; in Linthicum, Maryland, United States (d. 2009){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- John Robert Baldwin, British air force officer, commander of air squadrons No. 146 and No. 198 during World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross from both the United Kingdom and the United States, Air Force Cross, the Croix de guerre from Belgium, and the Order of Orange-Nassau from the Netherlands; in Bath, Somerset, England (d. 1952, killed in action during the Korean War){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- George Mueller, American space engineer, associate manager of the Apollo program and Project Gemini from 1963 to 1969; in St. Louis, United States (d. 2015){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor, credited as the "Fred Astaire of the Philippines"; in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippine Islands (present-day Philippines) (d. 1989){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Samuel Victor Perry, British chemist and rugby player, noted for his research into muscle biochemistry, member of the England national rugby union team from 1947 to 1948, in Isle of Wight, England (d. 2009){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish singer, promoter of classical Ottoman music; as Zeliha Eren, in Gököz, Keles, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) (d. 2015){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died:
- José de Diego, 52, Puerto Rican revolutionary leader and poet, leading figure of the independence movement in Puerto Rico (b. 1866){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Lionel Ashfield, 19, British air force officer, member of the No. 202 Squadron, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross; killed in action (b. 1898){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 17]], 1918 (Wednesday)
- By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, former tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna were shot dead at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Also murdered were their children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. The royal family's physician Eugene Botkin, maid Anna Demidova, footman Alexei Trupp, and cook Ivan Kharitonov were also killed.{{cite book| last1=Rappaport| first1=Helen| title=The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg| date=2010| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin| isbn=978-0312603472| pages=178–186}}
- Second Battle of the Marne – Counteroffensives near Reims, France stalled the German offensive.Kitchen 2001 pp. 182-188Zabecki 2006, pp. 257, 261
- British ocean liner {{RMS|Carpathia}}, famed for rescuing survivors of the Titanic, was torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55, with 218 of the 223 passengers and crew on board rescued.{{cite news| title=Carpathia Sunk; 5 of Crew Killed| newspaper=New York Times| page=4| date=20 July 1918| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/20/98269248.pdf}}
- The United States Army established the 13th Division at Camp Lewis, Washington.{{cite book |last=13th Division Staff |date=1919 |title=13th Division: Official History, 1918-1919 |url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/SL_officialhistory/SL_officialhistory.pdf |location=Fort Lewis, WA |publisher=13th Division, U.S. Army |page=7}}
- The Communist Party of Ukraine was established.[http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Partisan+Movement+of+1918%E2%80%9322 ] accessed 24 January 2011
- The New York City Subway opened the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, with stations including 42nd Street, 51st Street, 59th Street, 68th Street, 77th Street, 86th Street, 96th Street, 103rd Street, 110th Street, 116th Street, and 125th Street.New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/1918/07/17/archives/lexington-av-line-to-be-opened-today-subway-service-to-east-side-of.html Lexington Av. Line to be Opened Today], July 17, 1918, p. 13 As well, the 138th station for the IRT Jerome Avenue Line opened.{{Cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DEFDD1F38E533A25750C1A9629C946996D6CF|title=Jerome Av. Line Ordered Opened.| website=query.nytimes.com| access-date=June 5, 2016}}
- Japanese chemical manufacturer Teijin was established in Osaka.{{cite web| title=Teijin - History| url=https://www.teijin.com/about/history/index01.html| website=Teijin.com| access-date=26 November 2017}}
- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Luz was established in Luz, Brazil.{{cite web|title=Diocese of Luz| url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/luzz0.htm| website=GCatholic.org| access-date=2 December 2017}}
- Born:
- Geoffrey Lane, British judge, 12th Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales; in Derby, England (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan state leader, 24th President of Guatemala; in Barberena, Guatemala (d. 2003){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Chandler Robbins, American biologist, organizer of the North American Breeding Bird Survey, author of Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification; in Belmont, Massachusetts, United States (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Abdullah Tal, Arab military leader, noted Arab Legion commander during the Battle for Jerusalem in 1948; in Irbid, Ottoman Empire (present-day Jordan) (d. 1973){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 18]], 1918 (Thursday)
- Battle of Soissons – French commander Ferdinand Foch ordered 24 French divisions, supported by British and American divisions and 478 tanks, to counterattack German forces around Soissons, France.Brig-Gen Sir James E. Edmonds, History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium 1918, Vol III, May–July: The German Diversion Offensives and the First Allied Counter-Offensive, London: Macmillan, 1939/Imperial War Museum and Battery Press, 1994, {{ISBN|0-89839-211-X}}, pp. 249–54, 264–7.
- Battle of Château-Thierry – American forces successfully drove the Germans out of Château-Thierry, France at a cost of 1,908 casualties, while inflicting 5,328 German casualties.{{Cite web| url=http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Thierry.html| title=A Description of the Battle of Chateau-Thierry| access-date=2009-06-22| work=New York Times Current History| author=Edwin L. James| author-link=Edwin Leland James| year=1918| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090606025355/http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Thierry.html| archive-date= 6 June 2009 | url-status= live}}
- Agents with Cheka executed several Russian nobles related to the Romanov family in Alapayevsk, Russia including princes and brothers Constantine, Igor and John, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Vladimir Paley and Sister Barbara Yakovleva.Perry, John and Pleshakov, Constantine, The Flight of the Romanovs, Basic Books, 1999, {{ISBN|0-465-02462-9}}, p. 195
- Born: Nelson Mandela, South African state leader, 1st President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for opposing and eventually dissolving apartheid in South Africa, author of Long Walk to Freedom; as Rolihlahla Mandela, in Mvezo, Union of South Africa (present-day South Africa) (d. 2013){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: George Dilboy, 22, American soldier, member of the 103rd Infantry Regiment, recipient of the Medal of Honor; killed in action (b. 1896){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 19]], 1918 (Friday)
- Honduras declared war on Germany as part of its alliance with the United States.{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/digitized-books/world-war-i-declarations/foreign.php#U |title=World War: Declarations of War from Around the World|publisher=Library of Congress}}{{cite web |url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/declarationsofwar.htm |title=Who Declared War and When|publisher = Firstworldwar.com}}
- Second Battle of the Marne – German inflicted heavy casualties on the Italian Corps at Tardenois, France, with the Italians losing 9,334 out of a force of 24,000 men. However, British reinforcements from the 51st and 62nd Divisions arrived to plug a gap in defenses at Ardre Valley and saved the Allied line from collapsing.Everard Wyrall, The History of the 62nd (West Riding) Division 1914-1919 (undated but about 1920-25. See 62 Div external link below)
- Seven Royal Air Force Sopwith Camel airplanes from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier {{HMS|Furious|47|6}} attacked the Imperial German Navy airship base at Tondern, Germany, destroying two Zeppelin airships.{{cite magazine |last=Layman |first=R. L. |year=1973 |title=Furious and the Tondern Raid |magazine=Warship International |volume=X |issue=4 |pages=374–385}} It was the first time an air attack using convention land planes occurred using an aircraft carrier and the most successful attack by shipboard aircraft of World War I.Layman, R.D., Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1849-1922, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989, {{ISBN|0-87021-210-9}}, p. 61.Thetford, Owen, British Naval Aircraft Since 1912, Sixth Edition, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1991, {{ISBN|1-55750-076-2}}, p. 12
- French passenger ship {{SS|Australien|1889|6}} was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by German submarine {{SMU|UC-54||6}}, killing 20 of her 968 passengers and crew.{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/566.html |title=Australien |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=20 December 2012}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=French liners sunk |date=14 August 1918 |page=6 |issue=41868 |column=B }}
- U.S. Navy cruiser USS San Diego struck a mine and sank in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of six crew.{{cite web|last=Bleyer |first=Bill |title=The Sinking of the San Diego |publisher=Newsday |url=http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs710a,0,6633406.story |access-date=2013-04-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813235302/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs710a,0,6633406.story |archive-date=13 August 2007 }}
- German submarine {{SMU|UB-110||6}} was depth charged, rammed and sunk in the North Sea by Royal Navy ship {{HMS|Garry}} with the loss of 13 crew.{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB+110 |title=UB 110 |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=15 November 2012}}
- The animated news short The Sinking of the Lusitania by cartoonist Winsor McCay that depicted the attack and sinking of the {{RMS|Lusitania}} went into wide release.{{cite book|last=Bottomore|first=Stephen|title=The Titanic and Silent Cinema|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=2KGJJsUggtAC|year= 2000|publisher=The Projection Box|isbn=978-1-903000-00-7|page=195}}
[[July 20]], 1918 (Saturday)
- Battle of Soissons – The French and American counteroffensive broke the German advance and forced them back, recovering most of the ground lost in the Spring Offensive.Hart, Peter (2008). 1918: A Very British Victory, Phoenix Books, London. {{ISBN|978-0-7538-2689-8}}, pp. 298-300
- Royal Navy submarine {{HMS|E34}} struck a mine and sank off the coast of the Netherlands with the loss of all 30 crew.{{cite book|author1=Innes McCartney|author2=Tony Bryan|title=British Submarines of World War I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWFapIxWZSUC&pg=PA11|date=20 February 2013|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-1-4728-0035-0|pages=11–12}}
- Royal Navy troopship {{SS|Justicia||2}}, already damaged by torpedo from German submarine {{ship|SM|UB-64||6}} the previous day, was torpedoed while at anchor in Lough Swilly, Ireland by German submarine {{ship|SM|UB-124||6}}, killing 16 of her crew.{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/3222.html |title=Justicia |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=11 November 2012}}
- Born: Sergei Scherbakov, Russian boxer, silver medalist at the 1952 Summer Olympics; in Moscow, Russian SFSR (present-day Russia) (d. 1994){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 21]], 1918 (Sunday)
- Attack on Orleans – German submarine {{SMS|U-156|sub=y}} surfaced and fired on the seacoast town of Orleans, Massachusetts, but was driven off by two U.S. Navy seaplanes from the Naval Air Station Chatham in Chatham, Massachusetts.{{Cite book| title=Attack on Orleans: The World War I submarine raid on Cape Cod| last=Klim| first=Jake| publisher=The History Press| year=2014| isbn=9781625850348| oclc=883673275}}
- German submarine {{SMU|UB-124||6}} was scuttled after being damaged by depth charges in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland.{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB+124 |title=UB 124 |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=16 November 2012}}
- Died: Francis Lupo, 23, American soldier, longest U.S. enlisted man to be missing in action (remains were discovered in 2003 and repatriated in 2006) (b. 1895){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 22]], 1918 (Monday)
- Battle of Soissons – German commander Erich Ludendorff ordered the German line to be reorganized from Ourcq to Marfaux, France to prevent the Allies from breaking through, ending most of the fighting around Soissons.Hart 2008, pp. 298-300
- Spain established Picos de Europa National Park, the first national park in the country, around the Lakes of Covadonga in the Picos de Europa mountain range.[http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?code=SPA+24&mode=all Biosphere Reserve Information], accessed 2010, when the super-reserve was described as being built up "step by step". It was followed soon after with Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park in the Pyrenees mountain range.{{cite web | url = http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/mtperdu.html | title = Pyrenees-Mont Perdu | publisher = United Nations Environment Program - World Conservation Monitoring Centre |date=January 2000 | access-date = 2008-08-12 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080718175546/http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/mtperdu.html |archive-date = 2008-07-18}}
- The 1st and 2nd Mounted Divisions of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force were renumbered the 4th and 5th Cavalry Divisions. As well, the 10th, 11th and 12th Cavalry Brigades for renumbered for the 4th Division and the 13th, 14th and 15th Cavalry Brigades for the 5th Division.{{cite book | last = Perry | first = F.W. | year = 1993 | title = Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5B. Indian Army Divisions | publisher = Ray Westlake Military Books | location = Newport | isbn = 1-871167-23-X | pages=22, 26}}
- The Fowler Airplane Corporation relocated its offices and manufacturing plant in San Francisco, following a massive fire that destroyed its original factory in May.San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, "Among the Members", San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Activities, San Francisco, California, Thursday 20 June 1918, Volume 5, Number 25, page 195.{{cite web| title=San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Activities| first=San Francisco Chamber of| last=Commerce| date=1 January 1918| access-date=13 October 2016| via=Google Books | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_c4AQAAMAAJ&q=Fowler+Airplane+fire+San+Francisco&pg=PA195}}
- The Cranbrook School in Sydney was established as a boys only school headed by Frederick Perkins.{{cite web | url=http://www.schoolseek.com.au/school/cranbrook-school |title=Cranbrook School |access-date=18 January 2008 |year=2008 |work=School Directory | publisher=SchoolSeek |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222122759/http://www.schoolseek.com.au/school/cranbrook-school | archive-date=22 February 2008 |df=dmy-all }}
- Victor Records released the Marion Harris single "After You've Gone", which became a staple for many artists including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Frank Sinatra.{{cite web| title=THE ONLINE DISCOGRAPHICAL PROJECT| url=http://www.78discography.com/vic18500.html| website=THE ONLINE DISCOGRAPHICAL PROJECT| access-date=April 29, 2017}}
- The play Friendly Enemies by Aaron Hoffman held its Broadway premier at Hudson Theatre in New York City.{{cite book |title=American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1914–1930 |last=Bordman |first=Gerald |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-19-509078-0 |oclc=30356203 |page=82}}
- Died:
- Indra Lal Roy, 19, Indian air force officer, first Indian member of the Royal Air Force, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross; killed in action (b. 1898){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Manuel González Prada, 74, Peruvian writer and activist, leading social reformer and promoter of modernism in Peru (b. 1844){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 23]], 1918 (Tuesday)
- A protest in Uozu, Toyama, Japan by farmers over inflated rice prices escalated into a riot that spread to other farming communities across Japan. The unrest lasted for two months, with 417 reported disputes involving more than 66,000 workers, that eventually lead to the collapse of the government under Terauchi Masatake. In all, some 25,000 persons were arrested and 8,200 charged and convicted for various crimes.{{cite journal|last=Crump|first=John|year=1996|journal=Anarchist Communist Editions ACE Pamphlet|volume=8|publisher=Pirate Press|url=http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-crump-the-anarchist-movement-in-japan-1906-1996|title=The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906–1996}}{{cite book|last=MacPherson |first=WJ|year=1995|title=The Economic Development of Japan 1868–1941|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-55792-5}}
- The United States Army established the 393rd,{{cite web |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/regt/0393rgt.htm |title=Lineage and Honors: 393d Regiment |author=U.S. Army Center for Military History |publisher=U.S. Army Center for Military History |access-date=9 February 2010 |archive-date=8 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608025918/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/regt/0393rgt.htm |url-status=dead }} 394th,{{cite web |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/regt/0394rgt.htm |title=Lineage and Honors: 394th Regiment |author=U.S. Army Center for Military History |publisher=U.S. Army Center for Military History |access-date=9 February 2010 |archive-date=10 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210203548/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/regt/0394rgt.htm |url-status=dead }} and 395th Infantry Regiments.{{cite web |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/regt/0395rgt.htm |title=Lineage and Honors: 395th Regiment |author=U.S. Army Center for Military History |publisher=U.S. Army Center for Military History |access-date=9 February 2010 |archive-date=21 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621044715/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/regt/0395rgt.htm |url-status=dead }}
- Born: Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player, shortstop for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958; as Harold Peter Henry Reese, in Ekron, Kentucky, United States (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 24]], 1918 (Wednesday)
- The Northern Dvina Governorate was established in Russia.{{cite web| url=http://www.rusarchives.ru/guide/voanpi/126sia.shtml| script-title=ru:Справка об изменениях административно-территориального устройства и сети партийных и комсомольских органов на территории Вологодской области (1917–1991)| publisher=Архивы России| language=ru| access-date=29 May 2011| archive-date=17 September 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917021817/http://www.rusarchives.ru/guide/voanpi/126sia.shtml| url-status=dead}}
- The cornerstone of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was laid with the campus completed and opened in 1925, making it the second oldest post-secondary education institution in Israel.{{cite web|title=A Brief History of The Hebrew University| url=http://new.huji.ac.il/en/node/452|website=Hebrew University of Jerusalem International| publisher=Hebrew University of Jerusalem International| access-date=3 December 2017}}
- Weekly newspaper The Leader published its first edition for Angaston, Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96241313 |title=60 Years' Service on Country Press |newspaper=Recorder (Port Pirie) |issue=13,936 |location=South Australia |date=15 August 1952 |access-date=18 September 2016 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Born:
- Antonio Candido, Brazilian literary critic and writer, co-founder of the literary magazine Clima; as Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Ruggiero Ricci, American classical musician, noted for violin performances and recordings of Niccolò Paganini; in San Bruno, California, United States (d. 2012){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 25]], 1918 (Thursday)
- The Royal Air Force established air squadrons No. 244,{{cite web|title=History of 244 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/244squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}} No. 258,{{cite web|title=History of 258 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/258squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}} No. 260,{{cite web|title=History of 260 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/260squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}} and No. 272.{{cite web|title=History of 272 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/272squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}}
- The Passing Show of 1918, a Broadway musical revue by Harold R. Atteridge with music by Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz, opened at Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.[https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0E10F73B5F1B7A93C4AB178CD85F4C8185F9 "Passing Show, 1918, A Big Extravaganza"]. The New York Times, July 26, 1918, accessed October 18, 2010 The revue featured famous song standards including "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and "Smiles".{{cite book |title= "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" and Other Favorite Song Hits, 1918–1919|editor1-first= David A.|editor1-last= Jasen |year= 1997|publisher= Dover|location= Mineola, N.Y.|isbn= 0-486-29421-8|pages= vi-vii |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lVJhIak171oC&pg=PR7| access-date= October 19, 2010}}
- Born:
- Jane Frank, American artist, leading creator of aerial landscape art; as Jane Babette Schenthal, in Baltimore, United States (d. 1986){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Alexander McKee, British journalist and deep sea explorer, discoverer of the Mary Rose; in Ipswich, England (d. 1992){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Jay Zeamer Jr., American air force officer, commander of the 63rd Bombardment Squadron during World War II, recipient of the Medal of Honor, two-time recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and Silver Star; in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died:
- Richard Travis, 34, New Zealand soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross, Military Medal, Distinguished Conduct Medal, and Croix de guerre for action in Gallipoli campaign and Battle of the Somme; killed in action at Couin, France (b. 1884){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Walter Rauschenbusch, 56, American theologian, leading figure of the Social Gospel and Georgism movements in the United States (b. 1861){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 26]], 1918 (Friday)
- A coup d'état overthrew the Bolshevik government in Baku, Azerbaijan and lead to the formation of the Centrocaspian Dictatorship.{{Cite book | last = Missen | first =Leslie | title = Dunsterforce. Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War I | publisher = Marshall Cavendish Corporation | year =1984 | isbn =0-86307-181-3 | pages=2766–2772}}
- British flying ace Mick Mannock was killed when his plane was hit by enemy ground fire while on a mission over France. His body was never recovered. He was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously with 61 victories to his credit.{{cite web|title=Edward Mannock|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/mannock.php|website=The Aerodrome|access-date=20 May 2018}}
- Born:
- Marjorie Lord, American actress, female lead in The Danny Thomas Show; as Marjorie Wollenberg, in San Francisco, United States (d. 2015){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Richard Blackburn, Australian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory from 1977 to 1984, recipient of the Order of the British Empire; in Mount Lofty, Australia (d. 1987){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: Henry Macintosh, 26, British runner, gold medalist in the 1912 Summer Olympics; killed in action (b. 1892){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 27]], 1918 (Saturday)
- Second Battle of the Marne – German forces reorganized behind Fère-en-Tardenois and built an alternate rail to supply the line, allowing them also to retain Soissons, France despite ongoing Allied assaults.Hart 2008, pp. 298-300
- British-Canadian labor and anti-conscription activist Albert Goodwin was shot dead outside Cumberland, British Columbia, following a police manhunt to capture him and others evading conscription. A former police officer and member of the arrest party claimed to have killed in him in self defense, and charges of manslaughter were subsequently dismissed due to the lack of witnesses. Goodwin's popularity among the labor movement in British Columbia led to calls of protest and general strike the following month in Vancouver.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-myth-and-mystery-of-ginger-goodwin/article982238/|title=The myth and mystery of Ginger Goodwin|last=Hawthorn|first=Tom|date=17 March 2009|website=The Globe and Mail|access-date=14 March 2017}}{{Cite book|title=Reformers, Rebels and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement 1899-1919|last=McCormack|first=A.Ross|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1977|isbn=0-8020-5385-8|location=Canada|pages=139}}
- The Catholic University of Lublin was established in Lublin, Poland, after Vladimir Lenin allowed the Catholic Church in Poland to transfer the library and equipment from the defunct Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. The university was later renamed after Pope John Paul II, who was an alumnus.{{cite book| author=Weigel, George| title=Witness of Hope – The Biography of Pope John Paul II| publisher=HarperCollins| year=2001}}
- Born: Leonard Rose, American classical musician, cellist for the New York Philharmonic and noted instructor for the Juilliard School and Curtis Institute of Music; in Washington, D.C., United States (d. 1984){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: Lemuel Wilmarth, 82, American painter, founder of the Art Students League of New York and noted instructor for the National Academy of Design (b. 1835){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 28]], 1918 (Sunday)
- Elections were held in Luxembourg for the 53 seats in the constitutional assembly.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 1234 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}
- Royal Navy troopship Hyperia was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt by German submarine {{SMU|UB-51||6}} with the loss of 65 lives.{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/2948.html |title=Hyperia |publisher=Uboat.net |access-date=10 November 2012}}
- The Serbian flag is raised alongside the American flag on the White House, at the suggestion of Serbian Inventor Mihajlo Pupin to symbolize American solidarity with Serbia in World War I. This is the only time a foreign flag was flown on the White House besides the French flag on Bastille Day, 1920.{{Cite web|title=When the Serbian Flag Flew Over the White House in WWI - World War I Centennial|url=https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/6836-when-the-serbian-flag-flew-over-the-white-house-in-wwi.html|access-date=2021-05-11|website=www.worldwar1centennial.org}}{{Cite web|date=2020-07-28|title=When the Serbian Flag Flew Over the White House|url=https://rs.usembassy.gov/serbian-flag-flew-over-the-white-house/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=U.S. Embassy in Serbia|language=en-US}}
- Born: Penaia Ganilau, Fijian state leader, first President of Fiji; in Taveuni, Fiji (d. 1993){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 29]], 1918 (Monday)
- Born: Edwin O'Connor, American novelist, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel The Edge of Sadness; in Providence, Rhode Island, United States (d. 1968){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died:
- George Fell, 69, American surgeon and inventor, designer of the first artificial ventilator and the first electric chair (b. 1849){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- R. J. Reynolds, 68, American business leader, founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (b. 1850){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 30]], 1918 (Tuesday)
- The Islamic Army of the Caucasus sent troops to counter the forming Centrocaspian Dictatorship in Baku, Azerbaijan, forcing British forces under command of Lionel Dunsterville to send Allied troops to the city.Missen 1984, pp. 2766–2772
- Boris Donskoy, a member of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, assassinated German Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn in Kiev by throwing at bomb at his vehicle. Donskoy was arrested on-scene and confessed he was ordered by political party leaders to prevent von Eichhorn from undermining revolutionary change in Ukraine and bringing to power the Hetman of Ukraine as the governing body of the country. He was executed on August 10.{{cite news| title=Eichhorn Hit While Driving| url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0F15FF3C5D147A93C3A91783D85F4C8185F9| access-date=19 November 2017| work=The New York Times| issue=July 31, 1918| date=July 30, 1918}}
- Lieutenant Frank Linke-Crawford, the fourth-highest-scoring flying ace for Austria-Hungary, was shot down and killed in aerial combat. He had scored 27 victories.{{cite web| title=Frank Linke-Crawford| url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/austrhun/linke-crawford.php| website=The Aerodrome| access-date=1 December 2017}}
- The 1st Marine Aviation Force arrived at Brest, France, becoming the first United States Marine Corps aviation force to serve in combat.Knapp, Walter, "The Marines Take Wing," Aviation History, May 2012, p. 52
- The United States Army Air Service established the 3rd Pursuit Group at the Vaucouleurs Aerodrome in France.Series "C"; Volume 11, History of the 3d-5th Pursuit Groups, Gorrell's History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917–1919, National Archives, Washington, D.C. via http://www.fold3.com
- The Royal Air Force established air squadron No. 273.{{cite web|title=History of 273 Squadron| url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/273squadron.cfm| website=Royal Air Force| access-date=13 December 2017}}
- Cook County, Georgia, named after Confederate States Army General Philip Cook, was established with the county seat in Adel.{{cite web| title=State & County QuickFacts| url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13075.html| publisher=United States Census Bureau| access-date=June 20, 2014| archive-date=September 5, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905083940/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13075.html| url-status=dead}}
- Born: Henri Chammartin, Swiss equestrian, gold medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics (d. 2011){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died: Joyce Kilmer, 31, American journalist and poet, known for his collection Trees and Other Poems; killed in action (b. 1886){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
[[July 31]], 1918 (Wednesday)
- A Royal Air Force bombing raid over Germany involving a dozen Airco planes ended in disaster, with 10 of the aircraft shot down.Thetford 1991, p. 97
- British pilot Stewart Culley took off in a Sopwith Camel from a lighter towed barge behind a British warship, the first time a feat was undertaken.Thetford 1991, p. 15
- Born:
- Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research in the ATP synthase; in Provo, Utah, United States (d. 2018){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Mustapha Harun, Malaysian politician, first Governor of Sabah; in Kudat, North Borneo (present-day Malaysia) (d. 1995){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Alan Rawlinson, Australian air force officer, commander of the No. 79 Squadron during World War II, recipient of the Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Force Cross; in Fremantle, Australia (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Göthe Hedlund, Swedish speed skater, bronze medalist at the 1948 Winter Olympics; in Orkesta, Sweden (d. 2003){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Robert K. Morgan, American air force officer, commander of bombers Memphis Belle and Dauntless Dotty during World War II; in Asheville, North Carolina, United States (d. 2004){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Hank Jones, American jazz pianist, known for his collaborations with Cannonball Adderley, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, and Salena Jones; as Henry Jones Jr., in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States (d. 2010){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Died:
- George McElroy, 25, British air force officer, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and Military Cross; killed in action (b. 1893){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
- Henry Suter, 77, Swiss-New Zealand biologist, leading researcher of mollusks in New Zealand (b. 1841){{citation needed|date=March 2025}}