• Home
• Articles
• Dates
• Days
• Today in History
• Topics
• Quiz

Months in 1914: January February March April May June July August October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 44 of 44

1st - 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1st - Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1st - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
1st - Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army
1st - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
2nd - -3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
3rd - British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
3rd - Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
3rd - French troops vacate Reims
3rd - Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
4th - British, French & Russian govt sign Pact of London, against Germany
4th - General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
5th - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians
5th - French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine
5th - Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London
5th - Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
6th - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
7th - NY Post Office Building opens to public
8th - British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland
8th - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
9th - -12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp
9th - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
9th - Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Phila Phillies, 7-0
9th - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
11th - William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"
11th - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
12th - Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
14th - German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
14th - German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
15th - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
15th - US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
17th - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
18th - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
18th - Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
18th - Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
18th - South African troops land in German South West Africa
19th - Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
22nd - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
23rd - Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
26th - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
26th - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
27th - Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit
28th - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
29th - Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 46 of 46

2nd - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist
2nd - Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
3rd - Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)
3rd - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
4th - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)
5th - Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Okla, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing)
5th - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (Defense of Violeta Parra)
7th - Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist
7th - Hugo Pfister, composer
7th - Ian Ball, photographer
7th - James Van Allen, US physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
7th - Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer
8th - Dimitrios I, patriarch (primus interparis orthodox Christians)
8th - Hillary Brooke, Abbott & Costello's neighbor (Hillary)
10th - Robert Wise, director (Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story)
12th - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
12th - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
13th - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician
14th - Kay Medford, NYC, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love)
14th - Michael Spisak, composer
14th - Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor/director (Divorce Italian Style)
14th - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
14th - Clayton Moore, Chicago Illinois, American actor (d. 1999)
14th - Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
15th - Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)
15th - Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark (1962-68, 71-72)
15th - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
16th - Allen Funt, Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera)
17th - Shin Kanemaru, politician
18th - Jack Cardiff, British film director
19th - Frances Farmer, Seattle WA, actress (Son of Fury, Among the Living)
19th - Rogers Morton, Louisville Ky, US Secretary of Interior (1968-75)
20th - Kenneth More, England, actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House)
21st - John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO (Metromedia)/billionaire
22nd - Martha Scott, Jamesport Mo, actress (Dallas, Bionic Woman, Our Town)
23rd - Norman Cazden, composer
23rd - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
24th - Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
24th - Hein J M Jordans, Dutch conductor
24th - Herb Jeffries, Detroit Mich, actor (Where's Huddles)
24th - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
25th - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist
26th - Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice Tiger)
28th - Harold Taylor, Canada, educator (Art & the Future)
28th - Jim Boyd, country/western performer
28th - Lord Abinger

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 13 of 13

1st - Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
3rd - Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58
3rd - Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer, dies at 49
5th - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
7th - Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73
8th - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
15th - Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66
22nd - Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
25th - A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25
25th - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
28th - Stevan Mokranjac, composer, dies at 58
28th - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)
29th - Jean Bouin, French marathoner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies in battle