Today in History for Year 1914 (Part 4)

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

Historical Events

Events 301 - 391 of 391

Sep 18th - South African troops land in German South West Africa
Sep 19th - Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
Sep 22nd - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
Sep 23rd - Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
Sep 26th - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
Sep 26th - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
Sep 27th - Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit
Sep 28th - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
Sep 29th - Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
Oct 4th - Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
Oct 5th - World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
Oct 9th - German troops take Antwerp in World War I
Oct 10th - German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
Oct 11th - German troops occupy Gent
Oct 12th - 1st battle at Ypres, begins
Oct 13th - Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre
Oct 13th - Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history
Oct 13th - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask
Oct 13th - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
Oct 14th - German troops occupy Brug
Oct 15th - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
Oct 15th - Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21)
Oct 15th - Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)
Oct 18th - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
Oct 19th - US post office 1st used an automobile to collect & deliver mail
Oct 21st - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
Oct 27th - British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
Oct 28th - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
Oct 28th - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
Oct 29th - Russia declares war on Turkey
Oct 29th - Turkish warships storm Black Sea
Oct 30th - Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
Oct 31st - Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey
Baseball Legend Connie Mack Nov 1st - Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby
Nov 1st - German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
Nov 1st - Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
Nov 1st - Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
Nov 2nd - Great Britain annexes Cyprus
Nov 2nd - Russia declares war on Turkey
Nov 2nd - V Herbert & H Blossoms "Only Girl," premieres in NYC
Nov 2nd - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
Nov 4th - Russia declares Turkey the war
Nov 4th - Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete," NYC)
Nov 5th - Britain annexes Cyprus
Nov 5th - Great Britain & France & Russia declares war on Turkey
Nov 7th - Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
Nov 7th - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
Nov 7th - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
Nov 12th - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
Nov 14th - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
Nov 15th - Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
Nov 16th - Federal Reserve System formally opens
Nov 16th - Pope Benedict XV calls for peace
Nov 17th - US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
Nov 20th - US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
Nov 21st - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
Nov 21st - British army conquerors Bazra
Nov 22nd - Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
Nov 23rd - The US Army retreats from Mexico.
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini Nov 24th - Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
Nov 24th - Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms
Nov 26th - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
Nov 27th - 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)
Nov 28th - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
Dec 2nd - Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
Dec 3rd - Neth army shoots up geïnterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed
Dec 4th - Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
Dec 5th - 6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats U of Toronto, 14-2
Dec 5th - The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
Dec 6th - German troops over run Lodz
Dec 8th - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
Dec 8th - Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
Dec 8th - Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step," premieres in NYC
Dec 10th - French government returns to Paris
Dec 11th - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
Dec 12th - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
Dec 14th - Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
Dec 15th - Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
Dec 15th - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
Dec 15th - Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
Dec 16th - French offensive in Artois (Pétain)
Dec 16th - World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
Dec 17th - Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
Dec 17th - Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
Dec 17th - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
Dec 21st - "Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts
Dec 21st - 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
Dec 23rd - World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
Dec 24th - German plane drops bombs on Dover England
Dec 25th - Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits & Germans)
Dec 31st - Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 301 - 400 of 556

Jul 1st - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
Jul 1st - Earle Warren, alto sax player
Jul 1st - Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Jul 2nd - Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds)
Jul 2nd - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
Jul 4th - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
Jul 5th - Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi
Jul 6th - Jens Rohiner, composer
Jul 7th - Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
Jul 7th - Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
Jul 8th - Billy Eckstine, Pittsburgh PA, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love)
Jul 8th - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
Jul 9th - Bill Tallon, cricketer (brother of Don, Queensland leggie)
Jul 9th - Willi Stoph, president German DR
Jul 10th - Saul Bellow, Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
Jul 10th - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
Jul 11th - Ahti Sonninen, composer
Jul 14th - Sidney George Gray, company secretary
Jul 15th - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
Jul 15th - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
Jul 17th - Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
Jul 17th - James Purdy, Hicksville, Ohio, writer (The House of the Solitary Maggot), (disputed birthdate, 1923), (d. 2009)
Jul 18th - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, Des Moines, singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet)
Jul 18th - Herbert Collum, composer
Jul 18th - John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat)
Jul 18th - Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier (KVP, Mammoth Law)
Jul 18th - Mack Robinson, US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932)
Jul 18th - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
Jul 19th - Josef Palenicek, composer
Jul 19th - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
Jul 20th - William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man)
Jul 22nd - Cecil Effinger, composer
Jul 23rd - Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
Jul 24th - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
Jul 24th - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
Jul 24th - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
Jul 24th - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
Jul 24th - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
Jul 24th - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
Jul 25th - Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream)
Jul 26th - Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter
Jul 26th - Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
Jul 26th - Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
Jul 28th - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
Jul 29th - "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash)
Jul 29th - Abram Games, graphic artist
Jul 29th - Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
Jul 30th - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
Jul 31st - Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker
Jul 31st - Louis De Funes, Courbevoie France, actor (I Tartassati, Fantomas)
Jul 31st - Raymond Aubrac, Paris, French resistance leader, (d. 2012)
Aug 1st - Jack Delano, composer
Aug 2nd - Felix Leclerc, composer
Aug 2nd - Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)
Aug 2nd - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist
Aug 2nd - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
Aug 3rd - Rick Slabbinck, Flemish painter
Aug 4th - Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter
Aug 5th - Anita Colby, Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse)
Aug 5th - David Brian, NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco)
Aug 5th - Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)
Aug 6th - Susan Cowdy, ornithologist
Aug 6th - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
Aug 7th - Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer (James Bond)
Aug 8th - Arthur Holt, politician
Aug 9th - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
Aug 9th - Gordon Cullen, architect
Aug 9th - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Moomins) (d. 2001)
Aug 9th - Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
Aug 10th - Jeff Corey, NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men)
Aug 10th - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
Aug 11th - José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)
Aug 12th - [Hendrik] Jan Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist (Parool)
Aug 12th - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
Aug 12th - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
Aug 13th - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
Aug 14th - Sydney Wooderson, miler (world record 1937)
Aug 15th - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer
Aug 16th - Tullio Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
Aug 17th - Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)
Aug 19th - Fumio Hayasaka, composer
Aug 19th - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
Aug 20th - Kitei Sohn, Korean marathon runner/coach (Olympic-gold-1936)
Aug 21st - Dallas Pratt, collector
Aug 21st - Doug Wright, cricketer (England's leg-spinning genius of 30's & 40's)
Aug 25th - Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
Aug 26th - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
Aug 27th - Catherine Marshall, editor/writer
Aug 28th - Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)
Aug 30th - Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat)
Aug 30th - Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur
Aug 31st - Richard Basehart, Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
Sep 2nd - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist
Sep 2nd - Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
Sep 3rd - Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)
Sep 3rd - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
Sep 4th - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)
Sep 5th - Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing)
Sep 5th - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (Defense of Violeta Parra)
Sep 5th - Stuart Freeborn, London, England, motion picture make-up artist (Star Wars: Yoda, Jabba the Hut), (d. 2013)