Austro Hungaria invaded Russia.
The Germans retook Mulhouse.
The Ottoman Empire opened the Dardanelles to allow German cruisers SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau passage to Constantinople.
The United Kingdom released all suffragette prisoners.
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Austro Hungaria invaded Russia.
The Germans retook Mulhouse.
The Ottoman Empire opened the Dardanelles to allow German cruisers SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau passage to Constantinople.
The United Kingdom released all suffragette prisoners.
The leaders of the Constitutionalist met with interim Mexican president Francisco S. Carvajal and the unconditional surrender of the Federals in exchange for safe passage of all federal troops and senior government leaders out of Mexico City. The defeated Federals left the following day.
The French dirigible overflew portions of Germany.
British ships received definitive actual wartime orders to pursue the German warships SMS Goeben and Breslau.
The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig dedicated the opening of St Brigid's Church in Brisbane.
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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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Lex Anteinternet: Weather reports: Today is the anniversary of the horrible blizzard of 1888 , which holds status as the worst storm to have ever hit the northern plains. Th...The reason I recalled it is that the Sonic has a television in the lobby, or whatever it is, and was running the Weather Channel, which was full of reports about the two hurricanes that will soon hit Hawaii. For whatever reason, it hit me what events like that must have been like prior to any weather reporting. What was it like for ships at sea, for example? Any long serving sailor must have experienced the arrival of storms, announced only by what the crews could read on the horizon. It must have truly been horrifying.
The British Expeditionary Force arrived in France.
The French launched an offensive to regain Alsace.
German soldiers began burning private buildings in Kalisz.
Spain declared its neutrality.
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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German troops attacked Liège, Belgium.
Montenegro declared war on Austro Hungaria.
The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia fired across the bow of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz as it was leaving the Port of Melbourne. The liner was not aware that war had broken out.
The Royal Navy sank the German minelayer SS Königin Luise, causing Germany's first naval loss of the war.
The Czechoslovak Legion was established.
Kaiser Wilhelm reauthorized the Iron Cross, last issued during the Franco Prussian War.
Captain Robert Bartlett rendezvoused at Port Hope, Alaska to provide new clothing and wages owed to his Inuit guide who had traveled with him from Wrangel Island to Siberia in an attempt to get back to civilization and arrange a rescue boat as part of his effort to complete that mission.
The first electric light traffic light system was installed at the intersection of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland.
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Germans, unaware that their nation would be bled white, and unalterably changed, celebrated the arrival of war.
All Germany's political parties supported the entry into the bloodbath.
And they were fighting for . . .what?
Germany replaced gold marks with paper marks for the duration of the war.
German Communists Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin co-founded with others the Spartacus League.
Germany invaded Belgium, once again bringing up its war guilt. Belgium had done nothing to offend Germany. It was invaded for tactical reasons as the Von Schlieffen Plan required it as part of a wide swinging German right flank invasion of France.
The German army shelled Kaisz, Poland to suppress a civil uprising there.
Imperial German Navy cruisers Goeben and Breslau shelled Algerian ports of Bône and Philippeville, defying orders to proceed straight to Constantinople.
The United Kingdom declared war on Germany, taking Canada, Australia and New Zealand into war with it, as legally, the UK declared war for its dominions at the time. The Canadian government passed the War Measures Act, suspending some civil liberties.
The British government took control of British railways.
Retired British Admiral Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald formed the Order of the White Feather to persuade women to offer white feathers to men not in uniform to shame them into enlisting.
The United States declared neutrality.
Andrew Carnegie continued with an international peace conference he had organized of religious leaders in Belgium.
The organization it created became the Church Peace Union and is now the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Zayanes in Morocco launched a siege on Khenifra, Morocco, taking advantage of with French troops being withdrawn for service on the continent.
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Germany declared war on Belgium and France following King Albert of Belgium refusing to allow Germany to violate Belgian neutrality.
Again, the more you look at it, war guilt? Germany had it.
British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey made his famous statement; "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
He'd be proven correct.
Earlier that day, he had urged the House of Commons to declare war on Germany if Belgian neutrality was violated.
German troops arrived in Kalisz, Poland, part of the Russian Empire. Gun battles would break out later that day involving civilians.
Winston Churchill ordered the seizure of two Ottoman battleship under construction in the UK.
The German Navy captured the Russian steamer Ryazan in the Pacific and sent it to Tsingtao, their colony, for conversion into an auxiliary cruiser.
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