—Five pilots were drowned in Bristol Channel through a collision of their pilot cutter with a steamer.
—The Derby favourite, Captain McCalmont's Tetrarch, was scratched, having gone lame.
15. While flying in fog in a flight of ten army aeroplanes from Montrose to Salisbury Plain, Lieut. John Empson, Royal Flying Corps, and George Cudmore, air mechanic, were killed in landing near Northallerton.
18. The Times published two previously unprinted sonnets by Keats.
20. At the bye-election in N.E. Derbyshire, due to the death of Mr. W. E. Harvey (Lab. and L.), Major Harland Bowden (U.) was returned by 6,469 votes; Mr. J. P. Houfton (L.) received 6,155; Mr. J. Martin (Lab.) 3,669.
21. Grave disorder in the Commons. (See Eng. Hist., Chap. III.)
—Suffragist riot outside Buckingham Palace. (See Eng. Hist., Chap. III.)
23. At the Parliamentary bye-election at Ipswich, due to the death of Mr. Silvester Horne (L.), Mr. F. J. C. Ganzoni (U.) was returned by 6,406 votes, Mr. C. F. G. Masterman (L.), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, receiving 5,874, and Mr. John Scurr (Soc.) 395.
—At Sheerness H. G. Hatton, a naval signalman, was found guilty on charges arising out of the loss of a signal-book of H.M.S. Queen, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
—Mr. Gustav Hamel, while flying from Paris to Hendon, disappeared, and was drowned in the Channel.