Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and their three children (from left), Prince Ernst von Hohenberg, Princess Sophie, and Maximilian, Duke of Hohenburg, 1910. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum.
- First anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, the event widely acknowledged as instigating WWI
- Turkish forces at Helles in the Dardanelles begin to attack British positions at Gully Ravine. Fighting lasts for eight days, culminating in a British victory. The Turks suffer over 16,000 casualties, more than 10,000 of whom are killed.
- The Leader reports that Saturday’s snow fall was the heaviest of the past two years; “Old Man Canoblas and the Pinnacle are a splendid sight…being clothed in a mantle of white.”
