250,000 Italian troops engaged 78,000 Austro-Hungarian troops in the Alps in the Second Battle of the Isonzo
The Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi was sunk in the Adriatic Sea 5 by the Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-4.
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Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
250,000 Italian troops engaged 78,000 Austro-Hungarian troops in the Alps in the Second Battle of the Isonzo
The Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi was sunk in the Adriatic Sea 5 by the Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-4.
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Italy declared war on Austro Hungaria. The Austrians opened the actual hostilities post declaration by bombarding the port of Ancona
Faisal bin Hussein received the Arab Secret Societies Damascus Protocol proposting an Arab state to come about by way of a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire which read:
The recognition by Great Britain of the independence of the Arab countries lying within the following frontiers:
North: The Line Mersin-Adana to parallel 37N and thence along the line Birejek-Urga-Mardin-Midiat-Jazirat (Ibn 'Unear)-Amadia to the Persian frontier;
East: The Persian frontier down to the Persian Gulf;
South: The Indian Ocean (with the exclusion of Aden, whose status was to be maintained).
West: The Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea back to Mersin.
The abolition of all exceptional privileges granted to foreigners under the capitulations.
The conclusion of a defensive alliance between Great Britain and the future independent Arab State.
The grant of economic preference to Great Britain.
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Allied forces advanced two miles at Gallipoli.
The French cruiser Léon Gambetta was sunk in the Mediterranean off Santa Maria di Leuca, Apulia, Italy by Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-4 with the loss of 684 of her 821 crew.,
The captain of the submarine was Georg von Trapp of what would become the Von Trapp Family Singers.
The Mormon (LDS) Church established the practice of Family Home Evening. Apparently the night is now on any convenient day, but most Mormons continue to use Monday as the day.
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The Siege of Siege of Przemyśl began in Eastern Galicia where the Imperial Russian Army put an Austro Hungarian force under siege.
Today the city is on the Polish, Belorussian, border.
Allen Funt of Candid Camera fame was born in New York.
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The Germans took the last of Belgium's military forts after an eleven day effort which was supposed to have taken two.
Serbian forces pushed the Austro Hungarians off of Cer Mountain.
The Austro Hungarian battle cruiser SMS Zenta was sunk by the Allies in the Adriatic.
The SMS Goeben and Breslau were transferred to the Ottoman Navy.
British 2nd Lt. Evelyn Perry of the Royal Flying Corps was killed in a plane crash over France, making him the first British office to die in the war.
John Redmond, in a public address in Maryborough, Ireland, stated to assembled Irish Volunteers:
[F]or the first time in the history ... it was safe to-day for England to withdraw her armed troops from our country and that the sons of Ireland themselves ... [would] defend her shores against any foreign foe.
He was really pushing his point.
The Polish Temporary Commission of Confederated Indepence Parties in Austro Hungaria formed the Polish Supreme National Committee.
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Álvaro Obregón signed one of the documents related to dissolving the Mexican regime and allowing leaders of the Constitutionalist to create a new government.
The Austro Hungarian troopship SMS Baron Gautsch struck an Austrian mine in the Adriatic and sank, killing 147 men.
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The first shots of the Great War were fired at 10:00 local time when the SMS Bodrog, a river monitor, bombarded Belgrade following Serbia blowing up the only major bridge across the Sava, severing the land link between the countries.
The Cape Cod Canal opened in Massachusetts.
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