1914

1914 is a Common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)

Years:
1911 1912 1913 - 1914(MCMXIV) - 1915 1916 1917
Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1914 by topic:

Arts Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and Technology Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Countries Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
Other Births - Deaths - Sport - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming

Events

January-April

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 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 14 - The city of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
April 21 - 3000 US marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
April 24 - Colorado coalfield Massacre or Ludlow massacre. Colorado National guard attacks 1200 tent colony of striking coal miners in Ludlow - 24 people dead
The American Radio Relay League is founded.

May-July

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.

June 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
June 18 - Constitutionals take San Luis Potos - Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender
June 23 - Kiel Canal reopened (owing to its having been deepened) by the Kaiser: Visit of the British Fleet under Sir G. Warrender: Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought H.M.S. "King George V".
June 28 - The Assassination in Sarajevo: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, the Archduchess Sophie 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 30-Great Britain: Addresses in Parliament on the murdered Archduke: Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in House of Lords; Messrs. Asquith and Law in House of Commons.
July 2 -Announcement that the 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 - 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 grave statement in Hungarian Chamber concerning the murder of the Archduke.
July 9 -The House of Lords completed the recasting of the Amendment Bill(Ireland).

July 15 - Victoriano Huerta resigns and leaves for Colón. July 17 he leaves for exile in Spain
July 18 - The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
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 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric Traffic light is installed.
August 5 - USA and Panama sign the Panama Canal Treaty
August 15 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic.
August 15 - Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Alvaro Obregon enter Mexico City
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

August 29-30 - The Battle of St. Quentin.

September-October

September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
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 100,000 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

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 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 Veracrus. 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

Unknown dates

Marcus Garvey in Jamaica founds Universal Negro 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).
Jehovah's Witnesses claim October of this year to be the end of the Gentile Times and the beginning of Jesus Christ's rule in Heaven.
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.

Ongoing events

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 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)
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 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 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 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 - 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 3 - Roy Glenn, American actor (d. 1971)
June 15 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (d. 1984)
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 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 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 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 actor (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)
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

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 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)
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 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1873)
June 28 - Archduchess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
July 3 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
July 31 - Jean Jaurès, French pacifist (assassinated) (b. 1859)
August 4 - Hubertine Auclert, French feminist (b. 1848)
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)
November 11 - A. E. J. Collins, British cricketer and soldier (b. 1885)
November 14 - Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, British field marshal (b. 1832)
December 24 - John Muir, American naturalist (b. 1838)

Nobel Prizes

Fictional references

The 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire takes place in late 1914.

1818 Index

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