London Opinion, September 5, 1914.
The First Battle of the Marne began when troops of the French Sixth Army encountered German cavalry east of Paris at the River Ourcq.
On that day, the enigmatic and deeply Catholic but imperfectly practicing French poet Charles Péguy was killed in action, serving as a lieutenant in the French Army.
The Japanese Imperial Navy launched three Farman seaplanes from the Wakamiya to bomb German fortifications at Tsingtao in its first combat use of aircraft.
The HMS Pathfinder was sunk by the U-21 in the Firth of Forth, the first sinking of a ship by a locomotive torpedo in history.
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