1st » 'Leutnant' Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Luftstreitkräfte 'Fliegertruppe' air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a Synchronization gear synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker E.I Fokker M.5K/MG 'Eindecker'.
7th » World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
7th » An International Railway (New York – Ontario) e.g International Railway Tram known as trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
7th » Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Sri Lanka named Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
16th » Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
16th » First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded.
24th » The passenger ship SS Eastland or S.S. 'Eastland' capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
25th » Royal Flying Corps RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three Luftstreitkräfte German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front (World War I) Western Front.
Famous Birthdays on July in 1915
1st » Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
1st » Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1st » Jean Stafford, American author and academic (d. 1979)
1st » Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (d. 1998)
2nd » Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Italian-English soldier and politician