Today in History for January 1914
| ◄ Dec January Feb ► | ||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
◄ 1913 1914 1915► | ||||||
Months in 1914: February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 20 of 20
1st - 1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
1st - Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1st - Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
2nd - Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven
3rd - Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in NYC
5th - Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day
6th - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
7th - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
10th - 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
10th - Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
13th - IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
14th - Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
16th - Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
17th - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin
22nd - Paul Claudel's "L'échange," premieres in Paris
24th - Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
26th - 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
26th - Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
28th - 1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (NYC)
28th - Beverly Hills, Ca, is incorporated
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 41 of 41
1st - Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
3rd - Jean Louvel, Flemish pianist/conductor/composer
4th - Jane Wyman, St Joseph Mo, 1st Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession)
4th - Mohammed Sahir, shah (Afghanistan)
4th - Herman Franks, American baseball player
5th - George Reeves, [George Lescher Bessolo], actor (Superman)
5th - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)
6th - Arnold Richardson, composer
6th - Danny Thomas, Deerfield Mich, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
6th - David Bruce, Kankakee Ill, actor (Harry-Beulah)
8th - Charles Borromeo Mills, composer
9th - Derek Allhusen, England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968)
9th - Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
9th - Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
10th - Claude Gallimard, France, publisher
10th - Polly Rowles, Phila Pa, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie)
10th - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
11th - Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer
12th - Edqard John Gurney, politician
14th - Harold Russell, actor (Best Years of Our Life)
15th - Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian
16th - Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian (Le Pontificat de Pie IX)
16th - Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
17th - Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
18th - Arno Schmidt, writer
19th - Lester Flatt, country musician (Flatt & Scruggs)
19th - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
20th - Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston Churchill-Ike)
22nd - Dimitri Dragatakis, composer
22nd - Suzanne Danco, Belgian singer
23rd - Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
26th - Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher (Puffin Club)
26th - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
27th - Anna Larina, revolutionary
30th - David Wayne, Traverse City Mich, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib)
30th - John Ireland, Vancouver BC, actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral)
30th - Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman
31st - Carey Lofton, Blountsville Fla, actor (Skinner-Troubleshooters)
31st - Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)
31st - Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith
31st - Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 10 of 10
3rd - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
4th - Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84
11th - Ambrose Bierce, writer, dies at 71
11th - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
13th - Bernardus H Heldt, Dutch MP, dies at 72
13th - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer, dies 76
20th - Emil Liebling, composer, dies at 62
20th - Henry Southwick Perkins, composer, dies at 80
21st - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
22nd - Frederik Rung, composer, dies at 60
