The United Kingdom warned Germany and Austro Hungaria that in the event of war between those states and France and Russia, it would be forced to side with the latter.
Kaiser Wilhelm cut short his vacation and returned to Berlin to meet with his war council.
It was the last day of peace for four years in Europe, and the beginning of the end of the Old Order.
Austro Hungaria mobilized. Serbia already had, in anticipation of being invaded. Russia had ordered a partial mobilization.
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The Ottoman Empire proposed alliances with Germany and Austro Hungaria. They'd be turned down.
The Austro Hungarian Navy positioned battleships near Montenegro for the purpose of using their aircraft for border reconnaissance of the Montenegrin border, the first time something like that had been attempted.
The finishing touches were put on the demand note to be issued to Serbia.
While the July Crisis was largely off the front page in the US, the Mexican Revolution was not.
Railroad works in Saint John, New Brunswick, went on strike.
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Germany mobilized the Imperial German Navy and ordered shipping companies to withdraw from foreign ports and return to German ports.
The trial of Henriette Caillaux began in Paris, with the accused reportedly being kept in the same cell that had held the murdered Marie Antoinette.
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Congress created the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, effectively creating what would become the Air Force.
Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić stated that he would not accept any measures that compromised Serbian sovereignty in reaction to rumors about an Austro Hungarian ultimatum.
King George inspected the fleet at Spithead.
Joe Hill, labor activist memorialized in a famous folk song, was sentenced o death under questionable circumstances in Utah.
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The Government of Ireland Bill passed the House of Lord, allowing Ulster counties to vote on whether they wished to participate in Home Rule from Dublin.
Hungarian Prime Minister István Tisza, who had opposed going to war with Serbia, changed his view out of fear that if Austro Hungaria did not do so it would result in a breach of the alliance with Germany.
It was Bastille Day.
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Captain Robert Bartlett departed from Alaska on the Bear for Wrangle Island to rescue the Canadian Arctic Expedition. Only fourteen survivors then existed.
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Muhamed Mehmedbašić, whom is generally forgotten, was apprehended for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was one of the principal planner of the killing plot. A Muslim, he lived a complicated life supporting Serbian independence.
He escaped from prison two days later in circumstances that remain suspicious, remained involved, perhaps, in various movements, and was killed by the Ustaše in 1943, showing perhaps that he remained a significant figure in some ways.
Albanian rebels captured Berat.
Shots were fired at the homes of striking miners in Hartford, Arkansas, causing them to riot thereafter.
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Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
The German foreign office sent a letter to King Peter of Serbia congratulating him on his birthday.
The USS Nevada was launched.
It was classified as a "super dreadnaught", which would really place it in the brief category of "battleship", in a period of rapid naval evolution. The launch was attended by Governor Oddie, Governor David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.
She'd serve in World War One.
She was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, sunk and refloated in 1942. She served thereafter in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, as well as the landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She was sunk as a target in 1948.
On the same day, 5,000 people attended an Anti Militarist League rally to commemorate the anarchist killed in the July 4, Lexington Avenue Explosion.
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The Provisional Government of Ulster met for the first time in the Ulster Hall. It pledged to keep Ulster in trust for the King and British constitution.
Georgian born Nicholas Hartwig, the unlikely named Russian Minister to Serbia, died of a massive heart attack while visiting Austro Hungarian minister Baron Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen in Belgrade. He was an ardent pan Slav, who was said to be more Serbian than the Serbs.
Mountain Lake, Virginia. July 10, 1914.
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Obregón took Guadalajara.
It was the effective end of Victoriano Huerta's regime.
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph was advised his council was working on an ultimatum containing demands that were designed to be rejected by Serbia.
As the recent posts have demonstrated, the "war guilt" clauses imposed on the Central Powers after World War One were not without merit.
Miss Norma Phillips.
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Exiled Chinese revolutionary figure Sun Yat-sen reorganized the Kuomintang party under the new name Chinese Revolutionary Party after Yuan Shikai, self-proclaimed emperor of China, outlawed the political party.
The Austro Hungarian Council of Ministers gave its recommendations to the Emperor, with the first bieng a surprise attack on Serbia being the preferred option, and the second place one being to place demands on Serbia before mobilization to provide a proper "juridical basis for a declaration of war".
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Austro Hungaria convened a Council of Ministers that ran six hours in length. Most of the council supported going to war with Serbia despite possible Russian intervention. Count István Imre Lajos Pál Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged, the Prime Minister of Hungary, however opposed discussions that could lead to war.
Tisza felt that the Austro Hungarian Empire had too many Slavs already.
He was assassinated by soldiers in October, 1918.
German Chancellor Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg commented in Germany that “An action against Serbia can lead to world war.”
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German Ambassador to the United Kingdom Karl Max provided warning to British Foreign Minister Sir Edward Gray that war with Serbia was likely. Gray remained optimistic that it could be avoided.
Kaiser Wilhelm II, against his judgment, went on his annual cruise of the North Sea.
The British Columbian Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that it had no authority to intervene in immigration officials' decision to tow a Japanese vessel with Indian immigrants on board out to sea.
Christian Lautenschlager of Germany won the French Grand Prix.
Referred to as the "blank check", Kaiser Wilhelm II pledged Germany's unconditional support of whatever action Austro Hungaria may take in regard to the crisis with Serbia.
A war council between the countries was held at Potsdam to discuss possibilities of war with Serbia, Russia, and France. It concluded that eliminating Serbia was a necessity, with Emperor Franz Joseph claiming war was necessary to preserve the dual monarchy.
So, a war was deemed necessary over the murder of a man he didn't like, and the Austro Hungarians didn't either.
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