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Historical Events in June 1916. Jun 2 Battle of Verdun: German troops, under Lt Rackow, launch attack on Fort Vaux with flamethrowers, forcing French defenders inside. The fort changes hand 16 times during the entire Battle of Verdun.
Jan 1 1st first blood transfusion using stored and cooled blood is performed. Jan 1 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published. Jan 1 2nd Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Washington State beats Brown, 14-0; MVP: Carl Dietz, Washington State. Jan 5 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro.
8 de abr. de 2021 · Battles of the Meuse-Argonne: September 26 to November 11, 1918. More than 1 million American soldiers take part in the Battles of the Meuse-Argonne in France's dense Forest of Argonne and along ...
Historical Events for December, 1916. 6th » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest. 18th » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 Casualty (person) called casualties. 19th » World War I: Battle of Verdun On the Western Front ...
Feb 18 The last German garrison in the German colony of Cameroons surrenders. Feb 21 Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties, and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months) Feb 22 The House-Grey Memorandum, drafted by US and Britain, states: 'Should the Allies accept [the American ...
May 4 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare. May 4 Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan and Joseph Plunkett are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising, at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. May 5 US Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924. May 6 Belgian troops march into Kigali, German East Africa.
At 7:15 am on February 21, 1916, the heaviest German artillery bombardment yet seen in the war began on a front of eight miles around Verdun, and the French trenches and barbed wire fields there were flattened out or upheaved in a chaos of tumbled earth. At 4:45 pm the German infantry advanced—although for the first day only on a front of two ...
