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  • Zborov, Ukraine
    Monday Jul 2, 1917
    World War 1

    Czechoslovak Legon defeated Austro-Hungarian Army in Zborov

    Zborov, Ukraine
    Monday Jul 2, 1917

    Czechoslovak Legion saw action for the first time on July 2, 1917. That’s when a detachment of 3,500 from the unit stormed the Austrian trenches at Zborov in present-day Ukraine. Czechoslovak Legion troops defeated the Austro-Hungarian army at the Ukrainian village of Zborov.




  • England, United Kingdom
    Jul, 1917
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill was appointed Minister of Munitions

    England, United Kingdom
    Jul, 1917

    In July, Churchill was appointed Minister of Munitions. He quickly negotiated an end to a strike in munitions factories along the Clyde and increased munitions production.




  • Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    Tuesday Jul 3, 1917
    Josip Broz Tito

    The July Days

    Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    Tuesday Jul 3, 1917

    Less than a month after Broz arrived in Petrograd, the July Days demonstrations broke out, and Broz joined in, coming under fire from government troops.




  • East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.
    Jul, 1917
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    East St. Louis riots

    East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.
    Jul, 1917

    After the East St. Louis riots occurred in the summer of 1917, Du Bois traveled to St. Louis to report on the riots. Between 40 and 250 African Americans were massacred by whites, primarily due to resentment caused by St. Louis industry hiring blacks to replace striking white workers.




  • Spain
    Saturday Jul 28, 1917
    Spanish Civil War

    Spain was neutral in World War I

    Spain
    Saturday Jul 28, 1917

    Spain was neutral in World War I. Following the war, wide swathes of Spanish society, including the armed forces, united in hopes of removing the corrupt central government, but were unsuccessful. Popular perception of communism as a major threat significantly increased during this period.




  • 57th Street, New York City, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Jul 29, 1917
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Silent Parade

    57th Street, New York City, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Jul 29, 1917

    To publicly demonstrate the black community's outrage over the riots, Du Bois organized the Silent Parade, a march of around 9,000 African Americans down New York City's Fifth Avenue, the first parade of its kind in New York, and the second instance of blacks publicly demonstrating for civil rights.




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