Editing 1918 (section)

=== July ===
{{main|July 1918}}
* [[July 3]] – [[Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War]]: The [[Siberian Intervention]] is launched by the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]], to extract the [[Czechoslovak Legion]] from the [[Russian Civil War]].
* [[July 4]] – [[Mehmed VI]] succeeds as [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]] on the death of his half-brother [[Mehmed V]] (Reşâd, who has reigned since [[1909]]), himself reigning until the Sultanate is abolished in [[1922]].
* [[July 12]] – The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] battleship ''[[Japanese battleship Kawachi|Kawachi]]'' blows up off [[Tokuyama, Yamaguchi]], western [[Honshu]], Japan, killing at least 621.
* [[July 13]] – The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.
* [[July 14]] – The film ''[[The Glorious Adventure (1918 film)|The Glorious Adventure]]'' is released in the United States, featuring [[Mammy Lou]], who becomes one of the oldest people ever to star in a film, at a claimed age of 114.
* [[July 14]] – WWI: [[Second Battle of the Marne]]: The battle begins near the [[River Marne]], with a German attack. 
* [[July 14]] – [[Quentin Roosevelt]], Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son, is killed in action during the [[Second Battle of the Marne]]. 
[[File:Family in 1913.jpg|thumb|125px|[[July 17]]: [[Execution of the Romanov family]]]]
* [[July 17]]
** WWI: {{RMS|Carpathia}} (famed for rescuing survivors of the {{RMS|Titanic}}) is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland, by [[Imperial German Navy]] submarine ''[[SM U-55|U-55]]''; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.<ref>{{cite news|title=Carpathia Sunk; 5 of Crew Killed|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=4|date=20 July 1918|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/20/98269248.pdf}}</ref>
** [[Execution of the Romanov family]]: By order of the [[Bolshevik Party]], and carried out by the [[Cheka]], former emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], his wife [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra Feodorovna]], their children, [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia|Olga]], [[Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia|Tatiana]], [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918)|Maria]], [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia]], [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Alexei]] and retainers are shot at the [[Ipatiev House]], in [[Yekaterinburg|Ekaterinburg, Russia]].
* [[July 21]] – WWI: [[Attack on Orleans]] &ndash; Imperial German submarine {{SMS|U-156|sub=y}} surfaces and fires on a small convoy of barges and defending flying boats off the [[Cape Cod]] town of Orleans, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite book|title=Attack on Orleans: The World War I submarine raid on Cape Cod|last=Klim|first=Jake|publisher=The History Press|year=2014|isbn=9781625850348|oclc=883673275}}</ref>