WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO JULY 1918
Find out what all happened June to July 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)

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)

The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. (22. June 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)

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

Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). (4. July 1918)

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

The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost. (17. July 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)

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

Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history. (9. July 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)

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

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