NationMaster - Encyclopedia: May 1914

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 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 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

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 17 - William Stafford, poet and pacifist (d. 1993)
January 18 - Arno Schmidt, author (d. 1979)
January 30 - John Ireland, actor (d. 1992)
January 30 - David Wayne, actor (d. 1995)
January 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer (d. 1994)

February

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 (d. 1997)
February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
February 9 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984)
February 11 - Matt Dennis, singer
February 11 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
February 11 - Winand Borgerhoff Mulder court judge of Amsterdam
February 11 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
February 12 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader (d. 2000)
February 24 - Zachary Scott, actor

March

March 1 - Ralph Ellison, writer (d. 1994)
March 2 - Martin Ritt, director (d. 1990)
March 6 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
March 13 - Edward O'Hare, US pilot (d. 1943)
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

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

Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer (d. 2003)
May 8 - Romain Gary, writer and diplomat (d. 1980)
May 9 - Hank Snow, country musician (d. 1999)
May 12 - Howard K. Smith, journalist (d. 2002)
May 13 - Joe Louis, boxer (d. 1981)
May 18 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)
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 (d. 1986)
May 29 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer (d. 1988)

June

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

July

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

August

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

September

September 5 - Sor Isolina Ferr�, Puerto Rican catholic nun (d. 2000)
September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor, (Q in the James Bond movies) (d. 1999)
September 12 - Janusz Zurakowski, Polish-Canadian pilot (d. 2004)
September 15 - Creighton Williams Abrams, {United States|American]] military officer
September 16 - Allen Funt, host of Candid Camera (d. 1999)
September 23 - Bethsab�e de Rothschild, philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)

October

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

November

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

December

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

Deaths

February

February 24 - Joshua Chamberlain, Union Army officer.

March

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

April

April 1 - Rube Waddell, Baseball Hall of Famer

May

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

June

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

July

July 3 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician

August

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

September

September 1 - Martha, the last passenger pigeon
September 3 - Alb�ric Magnard, composer

December

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

Nobel Prizes

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