1914 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1914?
- January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- April 20, 1914 – 19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner’s strike.
- April 27, 1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- July 11, 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
- July 18, 1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
- July 21, 1914 – The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I
- July 23, 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
- August 5, 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
- August 6, 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
- August 15, 1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
- August 16, 1914 – World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
- August 25, 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- August 26, 1914 – World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
- August 28, 1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
- September 9, 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- September 18, 1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
- November 23, 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- November 28, 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- December 14, 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
- December 15, 1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.
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