July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere.
July symbols: The birthstone of July is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment. Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onwards).
Historical Events for July, 1915
Day of Week 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'.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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