A hundred years ago - 24/07/1918

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every day I will try to provide the most important events of the day a hundred years ago.
If I forgot something that should be mentioned, let me know.
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24/07/1918

• Simbirsk and Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) fall into the hands of the anti-Bolshevik Czech Legion and the White Guards, who fight together against the Bolsheviks in the civil war.
  
  
• Since the beginning of the war, more than 80,000 members of the fighting troops have been awarded the Iron Cross I Class in the German Reich.
  
  
• The publishing house Gustav Langenscheidt, Berlin, advertises in German newspapers for the acquisition of foreign languages ​​after a new, justified by the publishing house owner method.