French troops on Hartmannswillerkopf summit in Alsace surrendered while Allies cut off food and water to German defenders on Mora mountain in German Cameroon.
A train from Guadalajara, Mexico derailed and plunged into a canyon, killing resulting in the deaths of over 600 passengers.
Oddly enough, on the same day this train carrying Carranza's troops was photographed.
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The Belgians launched an offensive at Buggenhout, near Antwerp.
French forces captured the German fort at Kousséri, German Cameroon.
Oregon's Pendleton Roundup was on.
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The UK passed the first Defence of the Realm Act authorizing wartime censorship.
French forces took Muhouse in Alsace, although they'd be pushed back out two days later.
German colonial authorities executed Cameroonian resistance leaders Martin-Paul Samba and Rudolf Duala Manga Bell for treason.
The Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition left the UK for Antarctica, seemingly out of context and now out of their own times.
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