What was so significant in 1914?

Question

What was so significant in 1914?

Answer 1

1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday



January - March

January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador.

January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.

January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

January 10 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of Chihuahua

February 13 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

March 1 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.

March 10 - Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velasquez painting Rokeby Venus in London’s national gallery with a meat chopper.

March 16 - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage. (She is later acquitted.)

March 27 - Belgian surgeon A. Hustin makes the first successful blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.

March 29 - Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island to make the first true study of it (departs August 1915)



April - June

April 11 - Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, Illinois.

April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas is incorporated.

April 20 - Colorado coalfield Massacre or Ludlow Massacre. Colorado National guard attacks 1200 tent colony of striking coal miners in Ludlow - 24 people dead.

April 21 - 3000 US marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico.

The American Radio Relay League is founded.

May 9 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.

May 14 - Woodrow Wilson signs Mother's Day proclamation.

May 14 - The Hellenic Holocaust begins in the Ottoman Empire.

May 25 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.

May 29 - The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.



With the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg in Sarajevo, World War I had become inevitableJune 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.

June 18 - Constitutionals take San Luis Potosí - Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender

June 23 - Kiel Canal reopened (having been deepened) by the Kaiser; Visit of the British Fleet under Sir G. Warrender: Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King George V.

June 28 - The assassination in Sarajevo: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg are killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

June 29 - Austria-Hungary: Secretary of the Legation at Belgrade sends despatch to Vienna suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of Sarajevo. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and throughout Bosnia generally.

June 29 - Chionya Gusyeva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

June 30 - Great Britain.-Addresses in Parliament on the murdered Archduke: Lords Crewe 7 Lansdowne in House of Lords;Messrs. Asquith & Law in Commons.



July

July 2 - Announcement that the German Kaiser will not attend the Archduke's funeral.

July 4 - Austria-Hungary: Funeral of the Archduke at Artstetten (50 miles west of Vienna).

July 5 - Council at Potsdam.

July 6 - The German Kaiser leaves Kiel for a cruise in Northern waters.

July 7 - Austria-Hungary: Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, Chief of General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief; Council lasts from 11.30 a.m. to 6.15 p.m.

July 8 - Count Tisza makes a grave statement in the Hungarian Chamber concerning the murder of the Archduke.

July 9 - The House of Lords completed the recasting of the Amendment Bill.

Austria-Hungary.-Emperor receives report of Austro-Hungarian investigation into the Sarajevo crime. The Times publishes account of Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").

July 10 - Mr.Hartwig, Russian Minister to Serbia, dies suddenly at Austrian Legation in Belgrade.

July 11 - Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox

July 12 - Demonstrations in Ulster suggesting civil war.

July 13 - Reports of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade. Grave article in Times on "Failure of Recruiting." France.-Revelations in Senate (continued on Tuesday, 14th) of deficinces in French military equipment. Heavy selling of Canadian Pacific Railway shares in Berlin (continued on Thursday, 16th).

July 14 - Government of Ireland Amending Bill passed by House of Lords.

July 15 - Victoriano Huerta resigns and leaves for Colón. Count Tisza makes statement in Hungarian chamber relations with Serbia: " they must be cleared up"

July 17 - Victoriano Huerta leaves for exile in Spain. Austria-Hungary.-Report that Serbia has called up 70,000 reservists and is preparing for war. President Poincaré leaves Paris on a visit to Tsar Nicolas II of Russia.

July 18 - The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time. British Fleet at Spithead: reviewed by the King.

July 19 - Austria-Hungary.- Press scare concerning alleged "Greater Serbia" conspiracy. The King summons a Conference to discuss the Home Rule Problem.

July 28 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it fails to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.

July 31 - French pacifist Jean Jaures is assassinated.



August

August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia.

August 2 - German troops occupy Luxembourg.

August 2 - Secret treaty between Turkey and Germany to secure Turkish neutrality

August 3 - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France.

August 4 - German troops invade neutral Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany after the latter fails to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States declares neutrality.

August 5 - USA and Panama sign the Panama Canal Treaty

August 8 - German colonial forces execute Martin-Paul Samba for high treason.

August 15 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic.

August 15 - Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Alvaro Obregon enter Mexico City

August 17-September 2 - World War I: Battle of Tannenberg

August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.

August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany.

August 26-27 - The Battle of Le Cateau.

August 28 - The Battle of Helgoland - British cruisers under admiral Beatty sink three German cruisers.



Pope Benedict XV, the new PopeAugust 29-30 - The Battle of St. Quentin.



September-October

September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.

September 1 - The last known passenger pigeon dies in the Cincinnati Zoo.

September 2 - Moronvilliers occupied by the Germans.

September 3 - Giacomo della Chiesa is elected as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He becomes Pope Benedict XV.

September 5 - London Agreement - no member of Triple Entente (Britain, France, or Russia) may seek a separate peace with Central Powers.

September 5 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury attack German forces who are advancing on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 500,000 will be killed or wounded in this significant Allied victory.

September 6 - French and British counterattack at Marne ends German advance on Paris.

September 13-28 - The First Battle of the Aisne.

September 17 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

September 26 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

September 30 - Flying Squadron established to promote temperance movement.

October 9 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.

October 13 - Boston Braves beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-1, to win baseball's World Series.

October 29 - World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports: Russia, France, and Britain declare war on November 1-5.



November-December

November 1 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met and defeated by the superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. This is the first British naval defeat of the war.

November 4 - Britain and France declare war on Turkey.

November 5 - The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

November 7 - The Japanese seize Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the German East Asia Squadron.

November 16 - A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.

November 23 - US troops withdraw from Veracruz. Venustiano Carranza's troops take over and Carranza makes the town his headquarters

November 28 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

December 7 - Federation of Oriental Jews founds the Oriental Jewish Community of New York

December 24 - World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce.



Unknown dates

Marcus Garvey in Jamaica founds Universal ***** Improvement Association (UNIA).

First everyday items made of stainless steel come into public circulation.

French Buddhist Alexandra David-Neel is the first European woman to visit Tibet (in disguise).

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement.

W. H. Carrier patents design of an air conditioner.

The capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China is moved from Guilin to Nanning.

Port of Orange, Texas dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy.

In the Tales of Asgaria universe, Frì'n Átt'ís was reincarnated as Frieden Atticus in London, England.

United States Power Squadrons formed



Ongoing events

World War I (1914-1918)

Assyrian Genocide (1914-1922)

Mexican Revolution



Births



January-February

January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan, World War II heroine (d. 1944)

January 4 - Jane Wyman, American actress

January 5 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)

January 6 - Danny Thomas, American singer, actor, and comedian (d. 1991)

January 14 - Harold Russell, Canadian actor (d. 2002)

January 15 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (d. 2003)

January 17 - William Stafford, Aerican poet and pacifist (d. 1993)

January 18 - Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)

January 26 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)

January 30 - John Ireland, Canadian-born actor (d. 1992)

January 30 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)

January 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)

January 31 - Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)

February 4 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)

February 4 - Ida Lupino, English actress, director, and writer (d. 1995)

February 5 - William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)

February 5 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)

February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)

February 9 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)

February 11 - Matt Dennis, American singer (d. 2002)

February 12 - Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000)

February 19 - Jacques Dufilho, French comedian and actor (d. 2005)

February 22 - Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

February 23 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)

February 24 - Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965)



March-April

March 1 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994)

March 2 - Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990)

March 6 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)

March 8 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)

March 13 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)

March 14 - Bill Owen, English actor (d. 1999)

March 17 - Sammy Baugh, American football player

March 19 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)

March 25 - Norman Borlaug, American agricultural scientist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

March 26 - William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)

March 28 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)

March 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson, American musician (d. 1948)

March 31 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

April 2 - Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)

April 4 - Marguerite Duras, French author and director (d. 1996)

April 4 - Frances Langford, American singer and actress (d. 2005)

April 8 - Maria Felix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)

April 11 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)

April 22 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)

April 25 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)

April 26 - Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)

April 26 - Lilian Rolfe, French-born World War II heroine (d. 1945)



May-June

May - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (d. 2003)

May 8 - Romain Gary, Russian-born writer and diplomat (d. 1980)

May 9 - Hank Snow, Canadian country musician (d. 1999)

May 12 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)

May 12 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002)

May 13 - Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)

May 18 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)

May 19 - Go Seigen, Japanese go player

May 19 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)

May 22 - Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)

May 22 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)

May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)

June - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero, philanthropist (d. 2006)

June 3 - Roy Glenn, American actor (d. 1971)

June 15 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (d. 1984)

June 15 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (d. 1999)

June 19 - Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator (d. 2000)

June 19 - Harry Lauter, American actor (d. 1990)

June 21 - William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

June 29 - Rafael Kubelik, Czech-born conductor (d. 1996)



July-September

July 2 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)

July 8 - Sarah P. Harkness, American architect.

July 15 - Hammond Innes, English author (d. 1998)

July 19 - John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian World War II hero (d. 1944)

July 19 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)

July 10 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born comic book creator, Co-creator of Superman (d. 1992)

July 20 - Masa Niemi, Finnish actor, famous as Pätkä in the Pekka ja Pätkä films (d. 1960)

July 30 - Lord Killanin, Irish president of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999)

August 2 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)

August 9 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001)

August 10 - Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)

August 15 - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996)

August 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988)

August 17 - Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian World War II heroine (d. 1945)

August 26 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)

September 5 - Sor Isolina Ferré, Puerto Rican Catholic nun (d. 2000)

September 10 - Robert Wise, American film producer (d. 2005)

September 11 - Sidney Hart, British trade unionist and religious administrator (d. 2005)

September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)

September 12 - Janusz Zurakowski, Polish-born pilot (d. 2004)

September 14 - Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)

September 15 - Creighton Williams Abrams, U.S. general (d. 1974)

September 15 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian writer (d. 1999)

September 16 - Allen Funt, American television show host (d. 1999)

September 21 - Bob Lido, American singer and musician, The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2000)

September 23 - Bethsabée de Rothschild, English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)



October-December

October 1 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)

October 4 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)

October 6 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)

October 10 - Tommy Fine, baseball player (d. 2005)

October 14 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

October 14 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)

October 16 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan

October 17 - Jerry Siegel, American comic book creator, Co-creator of Superman (d. 1996)

October 21 - Martin Gardner, American writer on mathematics and games

October 27 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (d. 1953)

October 28 - Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995)

October 28 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)

October 28 - Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)

November 1 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)

November 11 - Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer (d. 2003)

November 13 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)

November 20 - Charles Berlitz, American author (d. 2003)

November 25 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)

December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)

December 12 - Patrick O'Brian, British writer (d. 2000)

December 14 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)

December 24 - Herbert Reinecker, German writer

December 26 - Richard Widmark, American actor

December 29 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)

December 30 - Bert Parks, American singer and actor (d. 1992)



Deaths

January 18 - Georges Picquart, French general and Minister of war (b. 1854)

February 24 - Joshua Chamberlain, American Civil War general (b. 1828)

March 1 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)

March 6 - George Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman (b. 1862)

March 12 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur (b. 1846)

March 16 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)

March 19 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)

March 25 - Frédéric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)

April 1 - Rube Waddell, baseball player (b. 1876)

April 2 - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)

April 7 - Ayub Khan, Afghan military leader (b. 1857)

April 19 - Empress Shoken, Empress-consort of the Meiji Emperor (b. 1849)

May 2 - John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise of the United Kingdom (b. 1845)

June 14 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)

June 21 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)

June 28 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1873)

June 28 - Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)

July 2 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)

July 31 - Jean Jaurès, French pacifist (assassinated) (b. 1859)

August 4 - Hubertine Auclert, French feminist (b. 1848)

August 6 - Ellen Louise Wilson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1860)

August 8 - Martin-Paul Samba, Cameroonian rebel leader

August 12 - John Philip Holland, Irish developer of the submarine (b. 1840)

August 20 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835)

August 30 - Aleksander Samsonov, Russian general (b. 1859)

September 3 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)

September 26 - August Macke, German painter (b. 1887)

October 10 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)

November 3 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (b. 1887)

November 11 - A. E. J. Collins, British cricketer and soldier (b. 1885)

November 12 - Augusto dos Anjos, Brazilian Poet (b. 1884)

November 14 - Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, British field marshal (b. 1832)

December 24 - John Muir, American naturalist (b. 1838)

Answer 2

WWI started in 1914

Answer 3

It was the designated time that Jehovah God enthroned J.C. as a King in heaven to begin his rule from heaven over the earth.





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Answer 4

It was the year in which World War 1 Started.This war destroyed many life and property.People were never the same again after this

Answer 5

The Titanic sank. The International Ice Patrol was established. Is there any particualr subject that you are looking to cover?

Answer 6

That's when WWI started. We didn't join in until 1917, but it broke out then. And don't believe the ones who say it ended in 1919 because "we" joined it--it ended because the 1919 flu epidemic hit, and everyone was too sick to fight anymore.

Answer 7

WWI began when Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated.

Answer 8

Everybody knew war was coming and they knew or suspected that nobody had the power to stop it. They were right.

Answer 9

that's when the first world war started.

Answer 10

my grandma born that year

Answer 11

Born :07/29/1914"Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash)

Born :05/04/1914Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)

Born :06/19/1914Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969- )

Born :02/05/1914Alan Hodgkin, British physicist

Born :12/13/1914Alan L Bullock, British historian

Born :07/23/1914Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)

Born :05/23/1914Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)

Born :04/02/1914Alec Guinness, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai)

Born :06/27/1914Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], actor/writer (Farce Majeur)

Born :08/25/1914Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)

Born :02/04/1914Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)

Born :10/07/1914Alfred Drake, singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate)

Born :09/16/1914Allen Funt, Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera)

Born :04/23/1914Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)

Born :04/19/1914Andrew Wilkinson, pediatrician

Born :09/24/1914Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)

Born :08/05/1914Anita Colby, Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse)

Born :11/17/1914Archie Campbell, Bullsgap Tenn, comedian (Hee Haw)

Born :05/26/1914Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)

Born :02/21/1914Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)

Born :02/17/1914Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place)

Born :05/23/1914Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)

Born :06/05/1914Beatrice de Cardi, archeaeoligist

Born :04/26/1914Bernard Malamud, US, novelist (Fixer, Natural)

Born :12/28/1914Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street)

Born :12/30/1914Bert Parks, [Jacobson], Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America)

Born :05/12/1914Bertus Aafjes, Limburgs poet

Born :02/09/1914Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner

Born :07/08/1914Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love)

Born :05/30/1914Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)

Born :05/18/1914Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Boris Godoenov)

Born :03/27/1914Budd Schulberg, author (On the Waterfront)

Born :01/31/1914Carey Lofton, Blountsville Fla, actor (Skinner-Troubleshooters)

Born :05/09/1914Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor

Born :02/09/1914Carmen Miranda, Brazil, singer/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)

Born :06/15/1914Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, cartoonist/illustrator

Born :03/10/1914Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ)

Born :10/02/1914Charles Drake, Bayside NYC, actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story)

Born :04/22/1914Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm)

Born :05/10/1914Charles McGraw, NYC, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family)

Born :04/26/1914Charlie Chester, comedian

Born :01/10/1914Claude Gallimard, France, publisher

Born :05/24/1914Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt)

Born :07/07/1914Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)

Born :09/15/1914Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)

Born :07/01/1914Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)

Born :12/01/1914Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32)

Born :12/14/1914Dan Dailey, NYC, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ)

Born :05/12/1914Dan Daniel, (Rep-D-VA, 1969- )

Born :10/01/1914Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author (Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize)

Born :01/06/1914Danny Thomas, Deerfield Mich, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)

Born :08/05/1914David Brian, NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco)

Born :01/06/1914David Bruce, Kankakee Ill, actor (Harry-Beulah)

Born :01/30/1914David Wayne, Traverse City Mich, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib)

Born :01/09/1914Derek Allhusen, England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968)

Born :09/08/1914Dimitrios I, patriarch (primus interparis orthodox Christians)

Born :12/10/1914Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress (Road to Bali)

Born :10/27/1914Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales)

Born :12/02/1914Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)

Born :03/28/1914Edmund S Muskie, (Sen-D-Me)/US Sec of State (1980)

Born :10/09/1914Edward Andrews, Griffin Ga, actor (Broadside, Harry-Supertrain)

Born :10/11/1914Edward J Day, US Postmaster General (1961)

Born :11/12/1914Edward Schillebeeckx, theologist

Born :07/24/1914Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)

Born :11/24/1914Elise Hoomans, director/actress (Jane Eyre)

Born :11/20/1914Emilio Pucci, Naples, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954)

Born :02/09/1914Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)

Born :04/29/1914Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)

Born :10/20/1914Fayard Nicholas, US, actor(?)

Born :08/09/1914Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor

Born :03/14/1914Fiorenzo Marini, Italy, ‚p‚e (Olympic-gold-1960)

Born :11/14/1914Florentine Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, the black widow

Born :11/24/1914Forrest J Ackerman, author

Born :09/19/1914Frances Farmer, US actress (Son of Fury, Among the Living)

Born :10/23/1914Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)

Born :05/09/1914Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader

Born :03/28/1914Frank Lovejoy, Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw)

Born :07/24/1914Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)

Born :08/17/1914Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)

Born :03/09/1914Fred Clark, Lincoln Calif, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame)

Born :07/02/1914Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds)

Born :09/05/1914Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Okla, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing)

Born :08/02/1914Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)

Born :02/13/1914George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino, CA, composed "Tubby the Tuba"

Born :04/06/1914George Reeves, Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)

Born :06/11/1914Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)

Born :06/27/1914Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament (1948-87))

Born :12/27/1914Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red)

Born :08/28/1914Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orch leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)

Born :02/12/1914Gordon Tex Beneke, saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orch)

Born :02/09/1914Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, stripper (or 0109 or 0208)

Born :01/09/1914Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)

Born :05/09/1914Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding)

Born :02/01/1914Hans Zlig, Swiss dancer

Born :01/14/1914Harold Russell, actor

Born :09/28/1914Harold Taylor, Canada, educator (Art & the Future)

Born :06/19/1914Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)

Born :06/11/1914Hendrik Berkhof, theologist (Church & Emperor)

Born :11/05/1914Henri J de Koster, Dutch Min of Defense (1971-73)

Born :06/11/1914Henry G Cisheros, (Mayor-D-San Antonio)

Born :09/24/1914Herb Jeffries, Detroit Mich, actor (Where's Huddles)

Born :09/08/1914Hillary Brooke, Abbott & Costello's neighbor (Hillary)

Born :11/11/1914Howard Fast, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)

Born :05/12/1914Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)

Born :02/04/1914Ida Lupino, London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

Born :12/03/1914Irving Fine, Boston Mass, composer (Toccata)

Born :09/26/1914Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice Tiger)

Born :10/26/1914Jackie Coogan, LA Calif, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family)

Born :09/07/1914James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts

Born :04/22/1914Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)

Born :01/04/1914Jane Wyman, St Joseph Mo, 1st Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession)

Born :08/10/1914Jeff Corey, NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men)

Born :09/15/1914Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark (1962-68, 71-72)

Born :01/31/1914Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)

Born :02/28/1914Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)

Born :02/16/1914Jimmy Wakely, Mineola Ark, country singer (5 Star Jubilee)

Born :11/25/1914Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak)

Born :05/13/1914Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)

Born :04/04/1914John Beith, British diplomat

Born :10/25/1914John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates)

Born :02/20/1914John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)

Born :07/18/1914John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat)

Born :06/17/1914John Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)

Born :04/23/1914John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)

Born :01/30/1914John Ireland, Vancouver BC, actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral)

Born :09/21/1914John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO (Metromedia)/billionaire

Born :10/25/1914John Reed King, Atlantic City NJ, TV host (Why?, Let's See)

Born :12/01/1914Johnny Johnston, St Louis Mo, singer (Make that Spare)

Born :10/28/1914Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher, made polio a fear of the past

Born :11/15/1914Jorge Bolet, Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka)

Born :06/08/1914Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)

Born :07/18/1914Jozef Cals, Dutch politician (KVP, Mammoth Law)

Born :08/26/1914Julio Cort zar, Argentina, writer (We Love Glenda So Much)

Born :12/14/1914Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84)

Born :04/03/1914Katherine Stammers Menzies, England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)

Born :09/14/1914Kay Medford, NYC, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love)

Born :11/14/1914Ken Carson, Coalgate Okla, singer (Garry Moore Show)

Born :07/24/1914Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)

Born :09/20/1914Kenneth More, British actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House)

Born :01/09/1914Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)

Born :02/15/1914Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Howling)

Born :03/06/1914Kirill Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)

Born :09/03/1914Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)

Born :02/10/1914Larry Adler, hamonica player (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)

Born :06/26/1914Laurie Lee, male poet/author (I Can't Stay Long)

Born :12/28/1914Lee Bowman, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover)

Born :06/19/1914Lester Flatt, Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme)

Born :05/24/1914Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)

Born :05/27/1914Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister

Born :05/08/1914Lord Murton, of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman of Comm House of Lords

Born :05/10/1914Lord Smith, British surgeon

Born :07/17/1914Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)

Born :07/18/1914Mack Robinson, US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932)

Born :04/25/1914Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela

Born :04/04/1914Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall)

Born :10/30/1914Marion Ladewig, Mich, bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63)

Born :09/22/1914Martha Scott, Jamesport Mo, actress (Dallas, Bionic Woman, Our Town)

Born :10/21/1914Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist

Born :02/11/1914Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, singer (Matt Dennis Show)

Born :06/12/1914Maurice Ohana, British?/French? pianist/composer (La C‚lestine)

Born :01/04/1914Mohammed Sahir, shah (Afghanistan)

Born :12/14/1914Morey Amsterdam, actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show)

Born :06/19/1914Morgan Morgan-Giles, British spy/parliament leader

Born :01/23/1914Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne

Born :03/25/1914Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)

Born :11/08/1914Norman Lloyd, Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)

Born :03/31/1914Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas)

Born :12/31/1914Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show)

Born :03/19/1914Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)

Born :02/18/1914Pee Wee King, Milwaukee Wisc, country singer (Pee Wee King Song)

Born :11/11/1914Perry Bass

Born :05/18/1914Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look")

Born :06/10/1914Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist

Born :01/10/1914Polly Rowles, Phila Pa, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie)

Born :11/07/1914R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)

Born :06/29/1914Rafael Kubelik, Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)

Born :03/11/1914Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)

Born :02/09/1914Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Circus Time)

Born :11/02/1914Ray Walston, New Orleans LA, actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)

Born :12/02/1914Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)

Born :08/31/1914Richard Basehart, Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)

Born :03/27/1914Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)

Born :06/26/1914Richard Maltby, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)

Born :12/26/1914Richard Widmark, Sunrise Mich, actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg)

Born :04/09/1914Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)

Born :08/03/1914Rick Slabbinck, Flemish painter

Born :08/04/1914Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter

Born :02/26/1914Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)

Born :09/10/1914Robert Wise, movie director (Day the Earth Stood Still)

Born :11/12/1914Roberto Cavanagh, Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)

Born :09/19/1914Rogers Morton, Louisville Ky, US Secretary of Interior (1968-75)

Born :12/14/1914Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Bach & Rock)

Born :06/05/1914Rose Hill, singer/actress

Born :05/27/1914Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways)

Born :03/17/1914Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)

Born :10/07/1914Sarah Churchill, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding)

Born :06/10/1914Saul Bellow, author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)

Born :06/15/1914Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator (NYer)

Born :04/23/1914Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)

Born :03/27/1914Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)

Born :03/30/1914Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician (Down & Out Blues)

Born :06/05/1914Stan Jones, Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)

Born :06/16/1914Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)

Born :08/05/1914Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)

Born :01/22/1914Suzanne Danco, Belgian singer

Born :03/20/1914Sviatoslav Richter, Zhitomir Russia, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)

Born :08/14/1914Sydney Wooderson, miler (world record 1937)

Born :11/12/1914Sylvi Saimo, Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)

Born :08/07/1914Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer (James Bond)

Born :05/09/1914Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices)

Born :10/06/1914Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)

Born :01/17/1914Th‚o Lefvre, premier (Belgium)

Born :08/16/1914Tullio Pandolfini Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)

Born :05/22/1914Vance Packard, US sociologist (Hidden Pseuders)

Born :03/20/1914Wendell Corey, Dracut Mass, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)

Born :01/20/1914Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston Churchill-Ike)

Born :04/26/1914Wilfrid Meilers, composer

Born :02/20/1914Willem J H Bart, vicar (Cuentanan di Nanzi)

Born :07/09/1914Willi Stoph, president German DR

Born :03/20/1914William Baddeley, rector (St Jame's Piccadilly)

Born :06/12/1914William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax)

Born :02/05/1914William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)

Born :03/26/1914William Westmoreland, army general (Vietnam era)

Born :06/04/1914Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer/journalist

Born :02/11/1914Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam

Born :06/26/1914Wolfgang Windgassen, Annemasse Germany, tenor (Stuttgart Opera)

Born :02/24/1914Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)

Born :11/23/1914[Arthur] Wilson "Bob" Tucker, US, sci-fi author (Time Masters)

Died :07/31/1914A J Jean Jaurs, French socialist (L'Humanit‚/Les Preuves), murdered=

Died :09/22/1914Alain-Fournier, French writer (Le Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle

Died :07/19/1914Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82

Died :11/06/1914Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian filmologist, dies

Died :06/30/1914Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies

Died :01/13/1914Bernardus H Heldt, Member of Dutch 2nd chamber, dies at 74

Died :04/19/1914Charles Pierce, philospher/scientist, dies

Died :09/05/1914Charles P‚guy, French writer/publisher (Clio), dies in battle

Died :12/06/1914Eduard Jacobs, cabaret artist, dies at 47

Died :11/23/1914Elbrige Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70

Died :08/06/1914Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54

Died :06/28/1914Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated

Died :03/16/1914Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, killed by Mme Caillaux

Died :11/03/1914Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies

Died :04/16/1914George W Hill, US astronomer (phases of moon), dies

Died :03/12/1914George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric Corp.), dies

Died :10/10/1914G˜sbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies

Died :02/06/1914J Albert Neuhuys, painter (Hague school), dies

Died :04/08/1914Jakub Arbes, Czech author (And‚l Miru), dies at 73

Died :07/30/1914Jean Jaur‚s, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris

Died :12/19/1914Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies

Died :03/16/1914John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies

Died :08/12/1914John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies

Died :02/25/1914John Tenniel, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93

Died :08/27/1914John Weiss, German new testament, dies

Died :07/02/1914Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78

Died :05/27/1914Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies

Died :07/11/1914Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies

Died :10/10/1914Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies

Died :11/24/1914Louis the Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies

Died :09/01/1914Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo

Died :04/14/1914Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies

Died :08/20/1914Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies

Died :09/28/1914Porsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (M lleysingjar), dies at 56

Died :06/28/1914Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated

Died :06/06/1914Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies

Died :12/12/1914Watkins Lewis, black man lynched in Shrevport La

Interest:09/03/1914[Old RC] Feast of St Pius X, pope (1903-14) (now 8/21)

Interest:08/21/1914[RC] Memorial of Pius X, pope (1903-14)

Special :04/04/1914"Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA

Special :09/22/19141 German submarine sinks 3 British cruisers

Special :04/28/1914181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV

Special :07/09/19141st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY

Special :07/04/19141st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)

Special :06/06/19141st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)

Special :02/16/19141st airplane flight to LA from SF

Special :10/12/19141st battle at Ypres, begins

Special :04/09/19141st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)

Special :03/20/19141st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven

Special :07/14/19141st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)

Special :01/01/19141st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)

Special :08/03/19141st ship through Panama Canal

Special :01/07/19141st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal

Special :08/05/19141st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland)

Special :07/29/19141st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF

Special :11/27/19141st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)

Special :08/31/191424.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)

Special :04/20/191433 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo

Special :06/08/191434.7ø (1.5øC) in De Bilt, Netherlands

Special :08/08/19143rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"

Special :01/26/1914600 textile workers go on strike

Special :01/24/1914A Massinger discovers asteroid #776 Berbericia

Special :03/30/1914A Massinger discovers asteroid #785 Zwetana

Special :10/15/1914ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded

Special :10/30/1914Allied offensive at Ieperen, begins

Special :05/16/1914American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City

Special :02/13/1914American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC

Special :08/29/1914Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal

Special :07/20/1914Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster

Special :08/15/1914Australia wins Davis Cup

Special :12/02/1914Austria army conquerors Belgrade Serbia

Special :06/28/1914Austria invades Siberia (WW I)

Special :07/28/1914Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia-WW I begins

Special :08/06/1914Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia

Special :07/23/1914Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I

Special :12/17/1914Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland

Special :07/11/1914Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3

Special :07/12/1914Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox

Special :08/24/1914Battle at Bergen-Belgian vs Britain

Special :09/15/1914Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I

Special :09/18/1914Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I

Special :12/15/1914Battle of L¢dz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow

Special :09/09/1914Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)

Special :09/05/1914Battle of Marne (WW I) begins

Special :09/06/1914Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris

Special :08/26/1914Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army

Special :10/21/1914Battle of Warsaw ends

Special :10/15/1914Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21)

Special :11/26/1914Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die

Special :10/13/1914Belgian regime established at St Adresse at Le Havre

Special :11/24/1914Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party

Special :11/14/1914Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game

Special :09/09/1914Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Phila Phillies, 7-0

Special :07/05/1914Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series

Special :07/19/1914Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL

Special :10/13/1914Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history

Special :07/10/1914Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles

Special :11/05/1914Britain annexes Cyprus

Special :12/08/1914British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island

Special :05/25/1914British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule

Special :10/27/1914British battleship Audacious sunk by mine

Special :05/06/1914British house of lords rejects women suffrage

Special :09/19/1914Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2

Special :09/03/1914Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV

Special :08/12/1914Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")

Special :05/14/1914Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0

Special :05/31/1914Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1

Special :05/01/1914China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification

Special :10/15/1914Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)

Special :02/28/1914Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)

Special :05/16/1914Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens

Special :01/24/1914F Kaiser discovers asteroid #777 Gutemberga

Special :01/25/1914F Kaiser discovers asteroid #778 Theobalda

Special :04/20/1914F Kaiser discovers asteroid #786 Bredichina

Special :04/28/1914F Kaiser discovers asteroid #788 Hohensteina

Special :11/16/1914Federal Reserve System formally opens

Special :09/26/1914Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce

Special :01/05/1914Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day

Special :07/28/1914Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)

Special :08/11/1914France declares war on Austria-Hungary

Special :12/10/1914French government returns to Paris

Special :12/16/1914French offensive in Artois (P‚tain)

Special :09/02/1914French regime flees to Bordeaux

Special :04/20/1914G Neujmin discovers asteroid #787 Moskva

Special :06/24/1914G Neujmin discovers asteroid #789 Lena

Special :06/29/1914G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani

Special :01/25/1914G Neujmin discovers asteroids #779 Nina, #780 Armenia & #781 Kartvelia

Special :10/13/1914Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask

Special :02/08/1914General Zamon becomes president of Haiti

Special :04/11/1914George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," premieres

Special :09/28/1914German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

Special :08/20/1914German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I

Special :10/10/1914German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

Special :08/25/1914German troops march into France

Special :12/06/1914German troops over run L¢dz

Special :08/02/1914German troops overthrows Luxembourg

Special :09/14/1914German troops withdraws from Aisne

Special :11/01/1914German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile

Special :09/26/1914Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussel

Special :08/04/1914Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany

Special :08/31/1914Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)

Special :08/03/1914Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I

Special :07/25/1914Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"

Special :06/02/1914Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome

Special :11/05/1914Gr Britain, France & Russia declares war on Turkey

Special :09/05/1914Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London

Special :11/02/1914Great Britain annexes Cyprus

Special :12/17/1914Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate

Special :08/12/1914Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary

Special :08/03/1914Great Britain declares war on Germany

Special :05/21/1914Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota

Special :11/17/1914H Thiele discovers asteroid #797 Montana

Special :01/14/1914Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars

Special :02/14/1914High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands

Special :06/09/1914Honus Wagner becomes 1st baseball player to get 3,000 hits

Special :09/18/1914Irish home rule bill recieve Royal assent

Special :11/15/1914Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia

Special :03/20/1914J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #784 Pickeringia

Special :01/06/1914J Lagrula discovers asteroid #775 Lumiere

Special :03/18/1914J Palisa discovers asteroid #782 Montefiore & #783 Nora

Special :08/27/1914J Palisa discovers asteroid #794 Irenaea

Special :09/26/1914J Palisa discovers asteroid #795 Fini

Special :06/27/1914Jack Johnson wins 20 round decision over Frank Moran (Paris)

Special :11/07/1914Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai

Special :08/23/1914Japan declares war on Germany in World War I

Special :08/11/1914Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland

Special :12/17/1914Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities

Special :10/15/1914K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #796 Sarita

Special :06/24/1914King Peter I of Sweden names son Alexander the Prince-regent

Special :01/01/1914Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)

Special :08/17/1914Lithuiana surrenders to Germans

Special :11/21/1914M Wolf discovers asteroid #798 Ruth

Special :06/30/1914Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa

Special :07/15/1914Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe

Special :04/22/1914Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US

Special :03/01/1914Minister of war H Col˜n named director of British Petroleum

Special :07/14/1914NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep

Special :02/01/1914NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt

Special :07/17/1914NY Giants beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1, in 21 innings

Special :02/26/1914New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated

Special :09/07/1914New York Post Office Building opens to public

Special :01/01/1914Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria

Special :07/31/1914Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo

Special :10/28/1914Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates

Special :06/01/1914Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)

Special :08/15/1914Panama Canal opens (under cost)

Special :02/01/1914Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed

Special :11/16/1914Pope Benedict XV calls for peace

Special :11/01/1914Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity

Special :08/02/1914Postdam Conference ended

Special :08/18/1914Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality

Special :05/09/1914Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day

Special :03/07/1914Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania

Special :10/13/1914Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa

Special :07/14/1914Robert Hutchins Goddard patents a liquid-fuel rocket motor

Special :10/29/1914Russia declares war on Turkey

Special :08/02/1914Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia

Special :03/14/1914Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty

Special :08/06/1914Serbia declares war against Germany

Special :08/02/1914Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place

Special :05/29/1914Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die

Special :07/16/1914Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)

Special :09/18/1914South African troops land in German South West Africa

Special :03/05/1914Spanish SS Principe de Asturias sinks, 445 die

Special :09/01/1914St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

Special :02/07/1914Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF

Special :01/06/1914Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded

Special :12/11/1914Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed

Special :03/10/1914Suffragettes in London damage painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez

Special :12/15/1914Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary

Special :04/09/1914Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico

Special :02/01/1914Tanganyika Railway opens

Special :01/24/1914The opera "Madeleine" is produced (NYC)

Special :03/19/1914Toronto Blueshirts sweep Victoria Capitals in 3 for Stanley Cup

Special :11/12/1914Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war

Special :04/08/1914US & Columbia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone

Special :02/04/1914US Congres approves Burnett-anti-immigration law

Special :05/07/1914US Congress establishes mother's day

Special :09/15/1914US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico

Special :03/09/1914US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisering of Mexico"

Special :11/20/1914US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports

Special :07/18/1914US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

Special :08/05/1914US beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup

Special :11/17/1914US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral

Special :04/21/1914US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months

Special :06/27/1914US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia

Special :08/05/1914US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US

Special :01/26/1914Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index

Special :11/04/1914Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete", NYC)

Special :11/01/1914Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front

Special :04/28/1914W H Carrier patents air conditioner

Special :03/18/1914White Wolf troop beats govt army in Jingdezhen China

Special :02/21/1914White Wolf troops attack Shanghai China

Special :05/07/1914Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House

Special :01/16/1914Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia

Special :08/03/1914Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning

Special :08/16/1914Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico