Austro Hungaria declared war on Belgium.
The French lost 10,000 colonial troops dead at the Battle of Rossignol.
The British Expeditionary Corps reached Mons. Cavalryman Captain Charles Beck Hornby was the first British soldier to kill a German soldier using his sword. Drummer Edward Thomas of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was the British solider to fire a shot, becoming the first British soldier to do so on the European mainland for 99 years.
That even 99 years prior was at Waterloo, also in Belgium.
The Germans finished destroying Kalisz, Poland.
Combined British and French forces defeated the Germans at Chra, Togoland. The Germans suffered largescale desertions.
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