Sunday, August 16, 1914. Not going according to plan.

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.

Japanese writer Takeshi Kanno with his wife, sculptor Gertrude Farquharson Boyle, August 15, 1914. They'd divorce the next year.  Few Japanese/Western marriages do survive, and she held fairly pronounced left wing views.

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Saturday, August 15, 1914. The Panama Canal opens for traffic.

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Tuesday, August 13, 1914. The Teoloyucan Treaties

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.

8th Annual Cyclist Convention.

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Wednesday, August 12, 1914. The United Kingdom and France declare war on Austro Hungaria.

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Wednesday, July 29, 1914 First shots.

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.

Amazingly, the ship still exists and after a long and varied career, is now a Serbian museum ship.

The first transcontinental telephone line was completed between New York and San Francisco.

The Cape Cod Canal opened in Massachusetts.

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July 28, 1914. WAR.

WAR