WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened June to September 1918

Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne. (4. July 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). (8. August 1918)

World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. (1. June 1918)

U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. (21. July 1918)

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. (17. August 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends. (11. August 1918)

World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. (15. July 1918)

World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry. (6. June 1918)

The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver. (2. August 1918)

First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. (24. June 1918)

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. (17. July 1918)

Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan. (10. September 1918)

World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins. (21. August 1918)

World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. (26. June 1918)

Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia. (5. September 1918)

The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621. (12. July 1918)

World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. (26. September 1918)

The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel. (10. June 1918)

Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive. (29. August 1918)

Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. (30. August 1918)

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