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August 25–30: Battle of Tannenberg in which Germany defeats Russia on the Eastern Front; more than 90,000 Russian soldiers surrender to German forces
September: Marie Curie becomes director of the Red Cross Radiology Services and begins leading an effort to set up France's first military radiology centers
September 5–10: First Battle of the Marne (France); at the time, the largest battle ever with one million soldiers on each side
September 14–October 14: 24,000 soldiers from India arrive in France to fight for Allies
October 22: Herbert Hoover takes the helm of the Commission for Relief in Belgium
October 22–November 22: First Battle of Ypres; combat between German, British, and French forces bogs down into attritional trench warfare
October 29: Ottoman Empire attacks Russia
December 24: German planes make first air attack on Britain at Dover |