Western Front
Laon: French recover nearly all ground lost near Vauxaillon and make small advance near Mont Cornillet.
Champagne: German attack on the Teton (Champagne) repulsed.
A German barbed wire entanglement near Arras, France: © IWM (Q 2548):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...449803101335552
British troops watching artillery shell bursts near Bullecourt: © IWM (Q 2553):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...481417042776065
First operational Fokker Dr I triplane fighters delivered to Richthofen’s Jasta 11 at Courtrai. [Note: I am suspicious of this claim, as most other sources I have consulted say the first test operational pair weren’t delivered until the end of July or early August]
Richthofen lands with his Fokker Dr I:
https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...r-dri.jpg?ssl=1
Flanders: British Fourth Army (Rawlinson) begins operations on Flanders coast (until November 18); they involve 8 divisions.
Eastern Front
Russia: Kerensky reviews on June 19 newly formed Women’s ‘Death Battalion’ at Petrograd. Denikin arrives at Minsk to take over Western Front.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia, Persia: Turks by now reoccupy Kizil Ribat and Kasr-i-Shirin.
Political, etc
Russia: Mutiny breaks out in the Russian Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol (see March 16th, 1917 and May 1st, 1918).
United Kingdom: Warrant instituting "Order of the British Empire" published.
British Government place embargo on disposal of U.K. securities in neutral countries by residents in enemy countries.
Due to cuts in beer production, some London pubs limit customers to half a pint at lunch or dinner.
United States: Italian war commission, led by Prince Ferdinando of Udine, arrives in New York City:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...526812259176448
Boris Bakhmeteff, Russian Provisional Government’s ambassador to the US, receives a state dinner with Wilson at the White House.