Today in History for April 1914

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 17 of 17

1st - UVS Soccer team forms in Lead
4th - "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
8th - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
9th - "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London
9th - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
9th - Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
11th - George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," premieres
13th - 1st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2
14th - Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
20th - 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
20th - 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
21st - US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months
22nd - Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win
22nd - Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US
27th - Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
28th - 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
28th - W H Carrier patents air conditioner

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 46 of 46

1st - Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
1st - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002)
2nd - Alec Guinness, London England, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai)
3rd - Katherine Stammers Menzies, England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)
4th - Gustave Camus, Belgian painter
4th - John Beith, British diplomat
4th - Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall)
5th - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist
7th - Sydney Thompson, rock climber
8th - John Cameron, cricketer (brother of Jimmy WI v-capt 1939 England tour)
8th - María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
9th - Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
10th - E A V "Foffie" Williams, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1939-48)
10th - Jack Badcock, cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's)
11th - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
12th - Armen Alchian, American economist
15th - John Gregory, dancer
16th - John Hodiak, Pittsburgh PA, actor (A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat)
17th - George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984)
Actor Alec Guinness (2nd) 18th - C S Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
18th - Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
19th - Andrew Wilkinson, pediatrician
20th - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
21st - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
22nd - Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm)
22nd - Hans Baumann, writer
22nd - Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)
22nd - Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
23rd - Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
23rd - John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
23rd - Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
24th - Bernard Caulfield, judge
24th - Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
24th - Ruth White, Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
25th - Claude Mauriac, writer
25th - Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela
25th - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
26th - Bernard Malamud, US, novelist (Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967)
26th - Charlie Chester, British comedian (Never Say Die)
26th - Horace Leonard Gold, Sci-Fi writer/editor
26th - James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls/Columbia, Maryland)
26th - Wilfred Howard Mellers, composer
27th - Albert Soboult, French historian
28th - Skuli Halldorsson, composer
29th - Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
30th - Sid Weiss, bassist

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

1st - Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB
2nd - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830)
12th - Josef Nesvera, composer, dies at 71
14th - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58
14th - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
16th - George W Hill, US astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76
19th - Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies