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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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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)

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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 -

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