Today in History for July 1914
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 36 of 36
4th - 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
5th - Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series
5th - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
7th - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
9th - 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
10th - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles
11th - Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3
12th - Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox
14th - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
14th - NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
15th - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
16th - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
17th - Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
18th - US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
19th - Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
20th - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
23rd - Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
25th - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
25th - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
26th - Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
26th - British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
26th - German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
27th - Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
27th - Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
28th - Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
28th - Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
28th - World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
29th - 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
29th - Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
29th - British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
29th - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
30th - Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
30th - French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
30th - John French appointed British supreme commander
31st - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
31st - Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 49 of 49
1st - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1st - Earle Warren, alto sax player
1st - Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)
2nd - Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds)
2nd - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
4th - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
5th - Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi
6th - Jens Rohiner, composer
7th - Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
7th - Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
8th - Billy Eckstine, Pittsburgh PA, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love)
8th - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
9th - Bill Tallon, cricketer (brother of Don, Queensland leggie)
9th - Willi Stoph, president German DR
10th - Saul Bellow, Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
10th - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
11th - Ahti Sonninen, composer
14th - Sidney George Gray, company secretary
15th - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
15th - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
17th - Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
18th - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, Des Moines, singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet)
18th - Herbert Collum, composer
18th - John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat)
18th - Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier (KVP, Mammoth Law)
18th - Mack Robinson, US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932)
18th - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
19th - Josef Palenicek, composer
19th - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
20th - William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man)
22nd - Cecil Effinger, composer
23rd - Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
24th - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
24th - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
24th - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
24th - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
24th - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
24th - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
25th - Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream)
26th - Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter
26th - Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
26th - Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
28th - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
29th - "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash)
29th - Abram Games, graphic artist
29th - Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
30th - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
31st - Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker
31st - Louis De Funes, Courbevoie France, actor (I Tartassati, Fantomas)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78
6th - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27
11th - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies
19th - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
20th - Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76
30th - Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
30th - Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
31st - A J Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité/Les Preuves), murdered=
