French flying ace Jean Navarre. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
- Pioneer French flying ace Jean Navarre is shot down in Argonne. “The Sentinel of Verdun”, as he is known, crash lands behind French lines and is rushed to hospital with a bullet lodged in his chest. Navarre recovers, only to be killed at Villacoublay aerodrome on 10 July 1919 while practising manoeuvres to fly through the Arc de Triomphe to celebrate Bastille Day four days later.
- French troops repulse Germans assaults at Morte Homme, Thiaumont and Hill 320 in the Battle of Verdun
- South African politician, Brigadier-General Sir Charles Preston Crewe, is appointed commander of Lake Force in the Uganda Protectorate on the west coast of Lake Victoria in East Africa
- Russian troops reoccupy Czernowitz in Bukovina
- General Helmuth von Moltke, former Chief of the General Staff of the German Field Armies in France and Belgium dies in Berlin
- Belgian troops from the Congo occupy the German colony of Ruanda-Urundi
