1914

Events

January

• 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

February

• 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

• 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

April

• April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas was incorporated
• April 21 - 3000 US marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico

May

• American Radio Relay League 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 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost

June

• June 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II
• June 28 - The assassination in Sarajevo: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria is killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia

July

• July 18 - Within the United States Army the Signal Corps 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 failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination
• July 31 - French pacifist Jean Jaures assassinated.

August

• August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia following latter'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 in advance on France. Britain declares war on Germany after the latter fails to undertake to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States declares neutrality
• August 5 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed
• August 15 - Panama Canal opens to traffic
• August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels
• August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany

September

• September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd
• September 5 - London Agreement - no member of Triple Entente (Britain France or Russia) may seek 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 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

October

• October 9 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops
• 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 declares 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 28 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading

Unknown Dates

• Ludlow Massacre in Colorado - 33 dead
• Marcus Garvey in Jamaica founds Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
• First everyday items made of stainless steel come to public circulation
• French buddhist Alexandra David-Neel visits Tibet in disguise as the first European woman
• Prediction of Jehovah's Witnesses that the end of the Gentile Times had arrived
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement.
• W. H. Carrier patents design of air conditioner
• The capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China moved from Guilin to Nanning

Ongoing events

• World War I (1914-1918)
• Hellenic Holocaust (1914-1922)

Births

January

• 1 - Noor Inayat Khan, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis (d. 1944)
• 4 - Jane Wyman, actress
• 5 - George Reeves, actor (d. 1959)
• 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (d. 1991)
• 14 - Harold Russell, actor (d. 2002)
• 17 - William Stafford, poet and pacifist (d. 1993)
• 18 - Arno Schmidt, author (d. 1979)
• 30 - John Ireland, actor (d. 1992)
• 30 - David Wayne, actor (d. 1995)
• 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer (d. 1994)

February

• 4 - Alfred Andersch, narrator and author of radio drama (d. 1980)
• 4 - Ida Lupino, actress, director, writer (d. 1995)
• 5 - William S. Burroughs, US author (d. 1997)
• 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
• 9 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984)
• 11 - Matt Dennis, singer
• 11 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
• 11 - Winand Borgerhoff Mulder court judge of Amsterdam
• 11 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
• 12 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader (d. 2000)
• 24 - Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965)

March

• 1 - Ralph Ellison, writer (d. 1994)
• 2 - Martin Ritt, director (d. 1990)
• 6 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
• 13 - Edward O'Hare, US pilot (d. 1943)
• 17 - Sammy Baugh, American football star
• 19 - Jay Berwanger, football star, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (d. 2002)
• 25 - Norman Borlaug, Plant breeder
• 26 - William Westmoreland, United States commander in Vietnam War
• 38 - Edmund Muskie, United States politician (d. 1996)
• 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
• March 31 - Octavio Paz, author, Nobel Prize for Literature (d. 1998)

April

• 2 - Alec Guinness, actor (d. 2000)
• 4 - Marguerite Duras, writer (d. 1996)
• 22 - Jan de Hartog, writer (d. 2002)
• 25 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., writer (d. 1948)
• 26 - Bernard Malamud, author (d. 1986)
• 26 - Lilian Rolfe, SOE agent executed by the Nazis (d. 1945)

May

• Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer (d. 2003)
• 8 - Romain Gary, writer and diplomat (d. 1980)
• 9 - Hank Snow, country musician (d. 1999)
• 12 - Howard K. Smith, journalist (d. 2002)
• 13 - Joe Louis, boxer (d. 1981)
• 18 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)
• 19 - Go Seigen, Go player
• 19 - Max Perutz, molecular biologist (d. 2002)
• 22 - Vance Packard, author (d. 1996)
• 22 - Sun Ra, jazz musician (d. 1993)
• 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (d. 1996)
• 29 - Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa (d. 1986)
• 29 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer (d. 1988)

June

• 3 - Roy Glenn, American actor (d. 1971)
• 15 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician and General Secretary of CPSU (d. 1984)
• 19 - Alan Cranston, US senator (d. 2000)
• 21 - William Vickrey, economist (d. 1996)
• 29 - Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)

July

• 15 - Hammond Innes, English adventure writer (d. 1998)
• 19 - John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian SOE agent (d. 1944)
• 19 - Marius Russo, MLB pitcher (d. 2005)
• 30 - Lord Killanin, sixth president of the IOC (d. 1999)

August

• 2 - Beatrice Straight, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist) (d. 2001)
• 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., lawyer, politician (d. 1988)
• 17 - Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian heroine of World War II (d. 1945)

September

• 5 - Sor Isolina Ferr, Puerto Rican catholic nun (d. 2000)
• 11 - Sidney Hart, British trade unionist and religious administrator (d. 2005)
• 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor, (Q in the James Bond movies) (d. 1999)
• 12 - Janusz Zurakowski, Polish-Canadian pilot (d. 2004)
• 15 - Creighton Williams Abrams, American military officer (d. 1974)
• 16 - Allen Funt, host of Candid Camera (d. 1999)
• 23 - Bethsabe de Rothschild, philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)

October

• 6 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
• 10 - Tommy Fine, Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
• 14 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
• 16 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
• 21 - Martin Gardner, writer on mathematics and games
• 27 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (d. 1953)
• 28 - Jonas Salk, medical scientist, developer of polio vaccine (d. 1995)

November

• 11 - Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer (d. 2003)
• 20 - Charles Berlitz, author (d. 2003)
• 20 - Jean-Pierre Grenier, actor (d. 2000)
• 25 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)

December

• 10 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (d. 1996)
• 24 - Herbert Reinecker, German writer
• 26 - Richard Widmark, actor
• 29 - Billy Tipton, jazz musician (d. 1989)
• 30 - Bert Parks, singer, actor, host of Miss America Pageant (d. 1992)

Deaths

February

• 24 - Joshua Chamberlain, Union Army officer.

March

• 1 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
• 6 - George Washington Vanderbilt II, businessman

April

• 1 - Rube Waddell, Baseball Hall of Famer

May

• 2 - John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise of the United Kingdom, aunt of King George V

June

• 21 - Bertha von Suttner, winner of 1905 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
• 28 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
• 28 - Archduchess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

July

• 3 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician

August

• 4 - Hubertine Auclert, French feminist
• 12 - John Philip Holland, developer of the submarine (b. 1840)
• 20 - Pope Pius X
• 30 - Aleksander Samsonov, Russian general

September

• 1 - Martha, the last passenger pigeon
• 3 - Albric Magnard, composer

December

• 24 - John Muir, naturalist (b. 1838)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Max von Laue
• Chemistry- Theodore William Richards
• Medicine - Robert Brny
• Literature - not awarded
• Peace - not awarded

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