** Dr. Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.

** WWI: is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55 ; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.

** WWI: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies.

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.

** WWI ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5: 12 AM and 5: 20 AM in Marshal Foch ’ s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France.

** WWI: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.

** WWI: A conscription crisis in Canada leads to passage of the Military Service Act.

** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

** WWI: Third Battle of Gaza: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).

** WWI: Battle of Cambrai: British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.

** WWI: The battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by a German U-Boat.

** WWI: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy force SMS Dresden to scuttle.

** Harry Patch, British WWI soldier, last Tommy Atkins ( d. 2009 )

** WWI Document Archive > St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles

** Namur 1695 ; Gibraltar 1704-5 ; Blenheim ; Ramillies ; Oudenarde ; Malplaquet ; Dettingen ; Louisburg ; Guadeloupe 1759 ; Quebec 1759 ; Maida ; Monte Video ; Vimiera ; Corunna ; Arroyo dos Molinos ; Tarifa ; Badajoz ; Salamanca ; Vittoria ; St Sebastian ; Pyrenees ; Nivelle ; Nive ; Guadeloupe 1810 ; Java ; Bladensburg ; Niagara ; Waterloo ; Bhurtpore ; Candahar 1842 ; Cabool 1842 ; Maharajpore ; New Zealand 1845-47 ; Alma ; Inkerman ; Sevastopol ; Canton ; Delhi 1857 ; Lucknow ; New Zealand 1860-68 ; Abyssinia ; Ahmad Khel ; Afghanistan 1878-80 ; Defence of Kimberley ; Defence of Ladysmith ; Relief of Ladysmith ; Afghanistan 1919 ; Korea 1952-53 ; The Hook 1953

** 10 November-Battle of Nivelle

** Romance sans paroles, C ' est le chien de Jean de Nivelle ( 1921 ) ( Paul Verlaine )

** Vietnam War – Nguyen Hue Offensive: Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.

** Court employs 4 " Fairness Factors " from Parklane Hosiery Co., Inc. v. Shore, 439 U. S. 322 ( 1979 ), to determine validity of the Offensive Non-Mutual Collateral Estoppel:

** China Offensive Campaign May 5, 1945 – September 2, 1945

** Tet Offensive, a military campaign that began in 1968

** Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, subsequent versions of Counter-Strike.

** Somme Offensive, September 25, 1918

** Offensive pass interference cannot be called behind the line of scrimmage in American football.

** Volume I: The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1935

** Volume IV: 8 August-26 September: The Franco-British Offensive, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1947

** Volume III, Part 1: The Offensive, Captain Stephen W. Roskill, 1960

** Volume III, Part 2: The Offensive, Captain Stephen W. Roskill, 1961

** Call of Duty: United Offensive ( 2004 ) – Gray Matter Interactive

** Offensive Rebs: 8 – @ Houston Rockets ( March 8, 2001 )

** IIa ( East ) – Offensive intelligence for Bolshevik Russia, Lithuania, the Belarusian People's Republic, Ukraine and Galicia ;

** IIb ( West ) – Offensive intelligence for Austria, Germany, France and the United Kingdom ;

** Elizabeth II commences her 1977 Silver Jubilee tour in Glasgow, Scotland.

** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

** A United States Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole ( arriving by air ) and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.

** The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia commences operations.

** Drilling for the new Montreal subway commences.

** War of 1812 – Battle of Lundy's Lane: Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls, Ontario for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 1800 hours ; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.

** The London and North Eastern Railway commences the Silver Jubilee, Britain's first streamline train service.

** April 19 – Siege of Massilia: Caesar commences a siege at Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.

** Various lobby interfaces that allows players to find and prepare a game before it actually commences.

** The Luas " Red Line " commences operation from Tallaght to Connolly Station.

** Helles: Battle of Krithia Vineyard diversion commences with an attack by the 88th Brigade of the British 29th Division.

** Anzac: Battle of Lone Pine diversion commences at 6. 30 a. m. with the Australian 1st Division capturing Turkish trenches.

** 6 June-D-Day commences.