Austro Hungaria declared war on Imperial Russia.
Serbia declared war on Germany.
Italy refused portage to the Goeben and Breslau. The Germans ships, even though they lacked sufficient coal, were ordered to make a run to Constantinople, partially in the hope that it would cause the Ottoman Empire to enter the war..
The Royal Navy, already pursuing the Goeben and Breslau, commenced pursuit of the SMS Karlsruhe in the West Indies.
The HMS Amphion struck a mine resulting in the first British deaths of the war.
The German airship Zeppelin Z VI was damaged in combat over Belgium and made an emergency crash landing.
The US negotiated a ceasefire in the Dominican civil war.
Woodrow Wilson's first wife Ellen Axson Wilson, died of Bright's disease. She relayed a dying message to her husband via the White House physician allowing her husband to remarry.
Orthodox Fr. Maxim Timofeyevich Sandovich was executed by Austro Hungarian for actions they deemed to be pro Russian in nature. He is regarded as a martyr in the Orthodox Church.
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