Battle of Verdun - The German began their assault of Fort Souville southeast of the Fleury-devant-Douaumont commune using gas, French soldiers with new gas masks that prevented numerous gas-related casualties.
The governing sports organization CONMEBOL for all of South American association football was established on the centennial Independence Day for Argentina, under the initiative of Héctor Rivadavia Gómez, director of the Uruguayan Football Association [REF].