1914

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 - 1914 - 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

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Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 Heads of State

Events

January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor
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
April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas was incorporated
May - American Radio Relay League founded
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 28 - Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria at Sarajevo, Bosnia
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
August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia following latter's military mobilization in support of Serbia
August 2 - German troops occupy Luxembourg
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 23, Japan declares war on Germany
August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels
September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd
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 26 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established by the Federal Trade Commission Act
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 1 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock 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 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
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)

Year in topic

1914 in film
1914 in literature
1914 in music
1914 in science
1914 in sports
- March 20 - In New Haven, Connecticut the first international figure skating championship takes place
- April 22 - Baltimore Orioles' Babe Ruth, age 19, pitches his first professional game

Births

January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis († 1944)
January 4 - Jane Wyman, actress
January 5 - George Reeves, actor († 1959)
January 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian († 1991)
January 14 - Harold Russell, actor († 2002)
January 17 - William Stafford, poet and pacifist († 1993)
January 18 - Arno Schmidt, author († 1979)
January 30 - David Wayne, actor († 1995)
January 30 - John Ireland, actor († 1992)
January 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer († 1994)
February 4 - Alfred Andersch, narrator and author of radio drama († 1980)
February 4 - Ida Lupino, actress, director, writer († 1995)
February 5 - William S. Burroughs, US author († 1997)
February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
February 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, ecdysiast († 1970)
February 9 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer († 1984)
February 11 - Matt Dennis, singer
February 11 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
February 11 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
February 11 - Winand Borgerhoff Mulder court judge of Amsterdam
February 12 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader († 2000)
February 24 - Zachary Scott, actor
March 1 - Ralph Ellison, writer († 1994)
March 2 - Martin Ritt, director († 1990)
March 13 - Edward O'Hare, US pilot († 1943)
March 17 - Sammy Baugh, American football star
March 19 - Jay Berwanger, football star, 1st Heisman Trophy winner († 2002)
March 26 - William Westmoreland, United States commander in Vietnam War
March 28 - Edmund Muskie, United States politician († 1996)
March 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
March 31 - Octavio Paz, author, Nobel Prize for Literature († 1998)
April 2 - Alec Guinness, actor († 2000)
April 4 - Marguerite Duras, writer († 1996)
April 22 - Jan de Hartog, writer († 2002)
April 25 - Ross Lockridge Jr, writer († 1948)
April 26 - Bernard Malamud, author († 1986)
April 26 - Lilian Rolfe, SOE agent executed by the Nazis († 1945)
May 8 - Romain Gary, writer and diplomat († 1980)
May 9 - Hank Snow, country musician († 1999)
May 12 - Howard K. Smith, journalist († 2002)
May 13 - Joe Louis, boxer († 1981)
May 19 - Go Seigen, Go player
May 19 - Max Perutz, molecular biologist († 2002)
May 22 - Vance Packard, author († 1996)
May 22 - Sun Ra, jazz musician († 1993)
May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot († 1996)
May 29 - Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa († 1986)
May 29 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer († 1988)
May - Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer († 2003)
June 15 - Yuri Andropov, soviet politician and General Secretary of CPSU († 1984)
June 19 - Alan Cranston, US senator († 2000)
June 21 - William Vickrey, economist († 1996)
July 19 - John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian SOE agent († 1944)
July 30 - Lord Killanin, sixth president of the IOC († 1999)
August 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr, lawyer, politician († 1988)
August 17 - Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian heroine of World War II († 1945)
September 5 - Sor Isolina Ferre, Puerto Rican catholic nun († 2000)
September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor, (Q in the James Bond movies) († 1999)
September 12 - Janusz Zurakowski, Polish-Canadian pilot († 2004)
September 16 - Allen Funt, host of Candid Camera († 1999)
October 6 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer († 2002)
October 16 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
October 21 - Martin Gardner, writer on mathematics and games
October 27 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author († 1953)
October 28 - Jonas Salk, medical scientist, developer of polio vaccine († 1995)
November 11 - Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer
November 20 - Charles Berlitz, author († 2003)
November 20 - Jean-Pierre Grenier, actor († 2000)
November 25 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player († 1999)
December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, actress († 1996)
December 26 - Richard Widmark, actor
December 29 - Billy Tipton, jazz musician († 1989)
December 30 - Bert Parks, singer, actor, host of Miss America Pageant († 1992)

Deaths

March 6 ÃÂÃÂ George Washington Vanderbilt, 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 28 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
June 28 - Archduchess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand
July 3 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician
August 20 - Pope Pius X
August 30 - Aleksander Samsonov, Russian general
September 1 - Martha, the last passenger pigeon

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Max von Laue
Chemistry- Theodore William Richards
Medicine - Robert BÃÂÃÂ¡rÃÂÃÂ¡ny
Literature - not awarded
Peace - not awarded

Heads of State

China - Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China (1913-1916)
Denmark - Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-1947)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See -
1. Pope Pius X, Bishop of Rome (1903-1914)
2. Pope Benedict XV, Bishop of Rome (1914-1922)
Japan - Yoshihito, Taisho Emperor (1912-1926)
Norway - Haakon VII, King of Norway (1905-1957)
Ottoman Empire - Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909-1918)
Russia - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States (1913-1921)