1914

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

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

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

Deaths

• 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 Sophia Chotek
• July 3 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician
• September 1 - Martha, the last passenger pigeon
• September Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general -

Nobel Prizes

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

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