17th October 1919
Tokyo: The Japanese government says it will spend around £30 million on aviation development.
HMS Dragon (D46) hit by shore battery while participating in action against Germans in Riga.
Former Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiser Franz Joseph I sinks in the Bay of Kotor due to strong gales. The ship was in French control as reparations.
Ship Losses:
SMS Kaiser Franz Joseph I (Austro-Hungarian Navy) Awarded to France as a war reparation in the aftermath of World War I and overloaded with dismantled machinery, the protected cruiser foundered in a gale in Cattaro Bay off Kumbor on the coast of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes during her delivery voyage.