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1914: British declaration of war on Germany.On this day, in response to the German invasion of Belgium, Great Britain entered World War I, declaring war on Germany. The Germans initially hoped that Austria-Hungary's war against Serbia could be “localized” to the Balkans but soon faced pressures from France in the west and Russia in the east. Fearing a two-front war, Germany instituted a plan of attack outlined years earlier by officer Alfred Schlieffen.More events on this day1921:The eight Chicago White Sox baseball players involved in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal were banned from the game for life by the baseball commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. |
1892:Lizzie Borden's parents were murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts. |
1879:Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Aeterni Patris, making Thomism the dominant philosophical viewpoint in Roman Catholicism. |
1790:U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton established the Revenue Marine Service, which became the U.S. Coast Guard. |
1578:The Portuguese armies of King Sebastian invaded Morocco but were defeated by the country's Sa?d¨© sultan, ?Abd al-Malik, in the Battle of the Three Kings. |
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