A hurricane made landfall in Louisiana, killing 279 people. The destruction of the storm would not be surpassed for fifty years.
The Germans recaptured lost ground in the Second Battle of Champagne resulting in a French suspension of their campaign.
6,000 or more Ottoman troops were dispatched to break Armenian resistance at Urfa, Turkey.
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The French concluded their offensive actions at Champagne after having sustained 145,000 casualties. The Germans had sustained about 97,000.
The British captured the German fort at Banjo.
The USS North Carolina became the first U.S. ship to launch an aircraft using a catapult.
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The French captured Souchez. The Germans held in the face of British assaults and inflicted 8,000 casualties on 10,000 meen at Loos. The French advanced and took 2,000 German pows in the Second Battle of Champagne.
The news of the big offensive hit the U.S. press.
Nobody was accepting responsibility for fighting on the U.S. border.
Wab was taken by a hunter.
The French Tenth Army and the BEF launched offensive attacks on the Western Front. The main focus was a British effort at Loos and Champagne. The British used gas for the first time in their efforts, and the British New Army, newly recruited volunteers, were committed to action for the first time.
The British also assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
Lord Kitchener demanded the redeployment of two British divisions and one French one from Gallipoli to Greece.
Former Princeton football standout Johnny Poe was killed in action at age 41 while serving in the British Army.
Poe was a restless soul who had served in the National Guard prior to the Spanish American War and hoped to see action in it. He did not, so after briefly working as a cowboy, he joined the Army and served in the Philippine Insurrection. He subsequently joined the Marine Corps in hopes of seeing action in Panama, but did not. He was briefly a soldier of fortune in Central America thereafter.
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