Aug 20 German forces invade Brussels

Aug 20 German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I

Aug 30 Battle of Tannenberg, one of history's great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30,000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.

Aug 04 Australia pledges a force of 20,000 to be placed at Britain's disposal

Aug 23 Japan declares war on Germany during WWI.

Aug 11 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland

Aug 03 Australian government offers to place the vessels of the Royal Australian Navy under control of the British Admiralty and to raise a force of 20,000 troops in event of war

Aug 04 Britain declares war on Germany

Aug 13 Establishment of the Australian Red Cross to raise funds to purchase comfort supplies for Australian service personnel overseas

Aug 15 Panama Canal opens (under cost)

Aug 04 Germany declares war on Belgium

Aug 29 Arizonan is first vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal

Aug 02 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place

Aug 05 US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US

Aug 05 USA declares itself neutral as Germany declares war on the Soviet Union

Aug 03 Germany declares war on France in what would later be called World War I.

Aug 06 Ellen Wilson Pres Wilson's wife, dies at 54

Aug 06 Serbia declares war against Germany

Aug 04 Britain declares war on Germany

Aug 06 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia

Aug 05 First traffic light installed in Cleveland Ohio

Aug 18 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality

Aug 26 Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg

Aug 03 First ship passing through the new Panama Canal

Aug 10 Voluntary recruitment for first Australian Imperial Force (AIF) begins

Aug 05 First German vessel captured in Australian waters in Port Phillip Bay

Aug 01 Germany declares war on Russia in WW I

Aug 01 Germany declares war on the Soviet Union, Italy declares itself neutral.

Aug 23 Emperor of Japan declares war on Germany

Oct 27 The birth of Dylan Thomas, Welsh author and poet

Oct 09 Antwerp, Belgium falls to the Germans.

Oct 28 George Eastman of the 'Kodak'company,announces the invention of colour photographs

Oct 13 The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway is opened throughout between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst, Ont. Construction was started in 1899 and it was opened in stages as follows: Hawk Junction (junction with the Michipicoten Branch) - 1911. Franz, (crossing with CP) - mid 1912. Oba (crossing with CN) - late 1912. . The name was shortened to Algoma Central in 1965.

Oct 28 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates

Oct 10 German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

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