Notable Historical Events - 1914
1914 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot) |
Jan 1 |
Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam) |
Jan 1 |
Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria |
Jan 2 |
Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven |
Jan 3 |
Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in NYC |
Jan 5 |
Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day |
Jan 6 |
Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded |
Jan 7 |
1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal |
Jan 10 |
1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published |
Jan 10 |
Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo |
Jan 10 |
Yuan Shih-k'ai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor |
Jan 13 |
IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia |
Jan 14 |
Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model T |
Jan 14 |
The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement is reached between Gen. J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi,regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters |
Jan 16 |
Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia |
Jan 17 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin |
Jan 20 |
The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment |
Jan 22 |
Paul Claudel's "L'échange," premieres in Paris |
Jan 24 |
Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC |
Jan 25 |
An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters |
Jan 26 |
600 Dutch textile workers go on strike |
Jan 26 |
Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index |
Jan 27 |
A petition is written and submitted by the black and coloured women of the Orange Free State, an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa, against the carrying of passes by women |
Jan 28 |
1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (NYC) |
Jan 28 |
Beverly Hills, Ca, is incorporated |
Feb 1 |
NY Giants & Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt |
Feb 1 |
Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed |
Feb 1 |
Tanganyika Railway opens |
Feb 2 |
James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in NYC |
Feb 4 |
US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law |
Feb 7 |
Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice" |
Feb 7 |
Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF |
Feb 8 |
General Zamon becomes president of Haiti |
Feb 10 |
In accordance with the understanding reached by General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners are released from the Pietermaritzburg Prison; 40 passive resisters are released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle and 11 in Port Elizabeth |
Feb 12 |
Dedication ceremony for the about to be constructed Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC |
Feb 13 |
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC |
Feb 14 |
High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands |
Feb 16 |
1st airplane flight from LA to SF |
Feb 19 |
Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin |
Feb 21 |
White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China |
Feb 21 |
In a secret meeting of civil and military leaders, Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov convinces them to support a plan for seizing the straits, controlled by Turkey, that block access to the Mediterranean |
Feb 24 |
Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC |
Feb 26 |
New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated |
Feb 26 |
HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast. |
Feb 28 |
Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF) |
Mar 1 |
Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum |
Mar 1 |
The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union. |
Mar 7 |
Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania |
Mar 9 |
Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co |
Mar 9 |
US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico" |
Mar 10 |
Suffragettes in London damage Rokeby's painting Venus of Velasquez |
Mar 14 |
Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty |
Mar 18 |
White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China |
Mar 19 |
Stanley Cup: Tor Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Vict Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game |
Mar 20 |
1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven |
Mar 21 |
US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld |
Mar 21 |
US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott |
Mar 22 |
World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins |
Mar 27 |
1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) |
Apr 1 |
UVS Soccer team forms in Lead |
Apr 4 |
"Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA |
Apr 8 |
US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone |
Apr 9 |
"World, the Flesh & the Devil", 1st color film, shown in London |
Apr 9 |
Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico |
Apr 9 |
US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people |
Apr 11 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" premieres |
Apr 11 |
Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US |
Apr 13 |
1st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2 |
Apr 14 |
Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern |
Apr 20 |
18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2 |
Apr 20 |
33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo |
Apr 20 |
US President W Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asks a joint session of Congress to approve armed force if necessary; Congress approves |
Apr 21 |
US marines occupy Vera Cruz, a major Mexican port; they will stay for 6 months |
Apr 22 |
Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win |
Apr 24 |
A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland |
Apr 25 |
US President W Wilson is persuaded by the ABC powers - Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - to accept mediation in the conflict with Mexico |
Apr 27 |
Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Apr 28 |
181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV |
May 1 |
China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification |
May 6 |
British House of Lords rejects women's suffrage |
May 7 |
US Congress establishes mother's day |
May 9 |
40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4 |
May 9 |
US President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day |
May 9 |
J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets. |
May 14 |
Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0 |
May 15 |
Henri Rabaud's opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire" premieres in Paris |
May 15 |
Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
May 15 |
US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off' |
May 16 |
American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City |
May 16 |
Ewing Field baseball park opens near Masonic Street, San Francisco. Relocated a year later. |
May 21 |
39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8 |
May 21 |
Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota |
May 25 |
British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill |
May 29 |
Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence River; 1,024 die |
May 30 |
The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: René Thomas wins in 6:03:45.060 (132.729 km/h) |
May 31 |
Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1 |
Jun 2 |
Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome |
Jun 6 |
1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway) |
Jun 8 |
34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands |
Jun 9 |
Honus Wagner is 2nd to get 3,000 hits |
Jun 13 |
28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (6-2 1-6 6-1) |
Jun 13 |
Eleftherios Venizelos annouces that Greece intends to annex Chios and Mytilene, two large islands off the Turkish coast; Greece and Turkey have been heading towards conflict for months over claims to Aegean islands |
Jun 19 |
54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club |
Jun 20 |
46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20 |
Jun 24 |
King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent |
Jun 26 |
The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes "the validity of Indian customary marriages" |
Jun 27 |
Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 27 |
US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia |
Jun 28 |
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI |
Jun 29 |
Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. |
Jun 30 |
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa |
Jul 1 |
Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog founds the Free State National Party |
Jul 4 |
1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks) |
Jul 4 |
31st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats E Larcombe (7-5 6-4) |
Jul 4 |
38th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Norman Brookes beats A Wilding (6-4 6-4 7-5) |
Jul 5 |
Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series |
Jul 5 |
Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia |
Jul 7 |
Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty |
Jul 9 |
1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY |
Jul 10 |
Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles |
Jul 11 |
Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3 |
Jul 14 |
1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Robert Goddard) |
Jul 14 |
NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep |
Jul 15 |
Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe |
Jul 16 |
Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg) |
Jul 17 |
Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1 |
Jul 18 |
US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps |
Jul 18 |
Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance |
Jul 19 |
Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL |
Jul 20 |
Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster |
Jul 23 |
Austria-Hungary presents an ultimatum to Serbia; that A-H demands acceptance within 48 hours make peacekeeping difficult |
Jul 25 |
Germany Socialist-Democrat Party declares: "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" in response to German support of Austria-Hungary |
Jul 25 |
Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66: he made 69 runs |
Jul 25 |
Serbia meets the deadlines of Austria-Hungary's ultimatum and gives a conciliatory reply, though Serbia is mobilizing |
Jul 26 |
First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain |
Jul 26 |
For the next two days, the foreign ministries and leaders of major states work feverishly to avert war |
Jul 26 |
Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrived from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens |
Jul 27 |
Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade |
Jul 27 |
Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government. |
Jul 28 |
Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox) |
Jul 28 |
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow |
Jul 28 |
Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first decalation of war of WWI |
Jul 29 |
In response to Austria's declaration of war on Serbia, Russian diplomats and general urge general mobilization, but the Tsar calls for partial mobilization |
Jul 29 |
1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF |
Jul 29 |
Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade |
Jul 29 |
British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover |
Jul 29 |
Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary |
Jul 29 |
The Austrians bombard Belgrade in Serbia |
Jul 30 |
Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization |
Jul 30 |
French troops withdraw 10 km from German border |
Jul 30 |
John French appointed British supreme commander |
Jul 30 |
After initial reluctance, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is persuaded to decree a general mobilizations in response to Austria; 'Think of the thousands and thousands of men who will be sent to their deaths!' he claims |
Jul 31 |
German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize |
Jul 31 |
Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo |
Aug 1 |
British fleet reaches Scapa Flow |
Aug 1 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I) of Russia in WWI |
Aug 1 |
France & Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI |
Aug 1 |
Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enters Luxembourg on outbreak of WWI |
Aug 2 |
Belgian government receives German ultimatum |
Aug 2 |
German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg |
Aug 2 |
German troops overthrows Luxembourg |
Aug 2 |
Germany & Turkey sign secret treaty of alliance |
Aug 2 |
Great Britain mobilizes |
Aug 2 |
Postdam Conference ended |
Aug 2 |
Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia |
Aug 2 |
Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place |
Aug 3 |
1st seaworthy ship passes through the Panama Canal |
Aug 3 |
Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army |
Aug 3 |
French fleet sails to North Africa |
Aug 3 |
German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina |
Aug 3 |
Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I |
Aug 3 |
World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms |
Aug 3 |
Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning |
Aug 4 |
WWI: German army shoots Belgian priests and burns down village of Battice |
Aug 4 |
German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast |
Aug 4 |
WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany |
Aug 4 |
WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war |
Aug 4 |
WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of war on Germany |
Aug 4 |
US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI |
Aug 5 |
1st traffic light installed in USA (Euclid Ave & E 105th St, Cleveland) |
Aug 5 |
Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico & Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I |
Aug 5 |
Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money |
Aug 5 |
Massive German assault on forts around Liège |
Aug 5 |
Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I |
Aug 5 |
US and Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US |
Aug 5 |
Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium |
Aug 6 |
WWI: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia |
Aug 6 |
WWI: French cavalry enters Belgium |
Aug 6 |
WWI: German Zeppelin bombs Liege, 9 killed |
Aug 6 |
WWI: Serbia declares war against Germany |
Aug 6 |
Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I. |
Aug 7 |
Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece |
Aug 7 |
French government awards King Albert of Belgium the Great Cross |
Aug 7 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas |
Aug 7 |
German army occupies city of Liege, Belgium |
Aug 7 |
Lord Kitchener says "Your country needs you" poster spreads over UK |
Aug 7 |
Russia invades East Prussia |
Aug 8 |
3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" |
Aug 8 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas |
Aug 8 |
Montenegro declares war on Germany |
Aug 9 |
German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham |
Aug 10 |
At Liege, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary |
Aug 10 |
German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany |
Aug 10 |
German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas |
Aug 10 |
WWI: French fall back at Alsace |
Aug 11 |
France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
Aug 11 |
Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland |
Aug 11 |
John Wray patents animation |
Aug 11 |
Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews |
Aug 12 |
Cavalry battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle of the Silver Helmets") |
Aug 12 |
German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Liege |
Aug 12 |
Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary |
Aug 12 |
Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa |
Aug 13 |
-14] German army occupies forts at Liege |
Aug 13 |
Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota |
Aug 13 |
France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
Aug 14 |
British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France |
Aug 15 |
13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2) |
Aug 15 |
Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs |
Aug 15 |
German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured |
Aug 15 |
Japan joins side of allies |
Aug 15 |
Panama Canal opens (under cost) |
Aug 15 |
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. |
Aug 15 |
The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads |
Aug 15 |
US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, in a letter to J P Morgan, declares that loans to any of the belligerents go against US neutrality |
Aug 16 |
German army occupies last fort at Liege, Belgian general Leman caught |
Aug 16 |
Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico |
Aug 16 |
World War I: Battle of Cer begins. |
Aug 17 |
French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins |
Aug 17 |
Lithuiana surrenders to Germans |
Aug 18 |
Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km) |
Aug 18 |
-20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp |
Aug 18 |
French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg |
Aug 18 |
US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality" |
Aug 19 |
Elmer Rice' "On Trial" premieres in NYC |
Aug 19 |
German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad |
Aug 19 |
German fleet bombs English coast |
Aug 19 |
Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC |
Aug 19 |
In a message to the Senate, US President Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name' |
Aug 20 |
German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians |
Aug 20 |
-24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons |
Aug 20 |
Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russians beat Germans |
Aug 20 |
Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing thousands |
Aug 20 |
Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny, France |
Aug 20 |
German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp |
Aug 21 |
20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill |
Aug 21 |
Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines |
Aug 21 |
French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre |
Aug 22 |
Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French |
Aug 22 |
1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium) |
Aug 22 |
Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton |
Aug 22 |
Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent |
Aug 22 |
General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia |
Aug 22 |
German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium |
Aug 22 |
Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into East Prussia enroute to Russia |
Aug 23 |
-24] German troops plunder Belgium |
Aug 23 |
Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten |
Aug 23 |
Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium |
Aug 23 |
Japan declares war on Germany in World War I |
Aug 24 |
Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops |
Aug 24 |
German troops occupy Namur, Belgium |
Aug 24 |
Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC |
Aug 25 |
-26] Belgian offensive at Antwerp |
Aug 25 |
Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven, Belgium |
Aug 25 |
German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp, Belgium, 10 die |
Aug 25 |
German troops march into France and push French army to the Sedan |
Aug 26 |
-9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia |
Aug 26 |
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army |
Aug 27 |
Second day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Germans bombard Usdau |
Aug 27 |
US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven |
Aug 28 |
Third day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): violent German/Russian battles |
Aug 28 |
Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed |
Aug 28 |
British General John French evacuate Amiens |
Aug 29 |
4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught |
Aug 29 |
Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal |
Aug 29 |
Battle of St Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac |
Aug 29 |
New Zealand force capture German Samoa |
Aug 30 |
1st German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed |
Aug 30 |
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army ca. 170,000 killed or injured |
Aug 31 |
24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record) |
Aug 31 |
General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris |
Aug 31 |
German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia |
Aug 31 |
Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Sep 1 |
34th US Men's Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (6-3 8-6 10-8) |
Sep 1 |
Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris |
Sep 1 |
St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd |
Sep 1 |
Von Gluck's army meets up with British expeditionary army |
Sep 1 |
The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. |
Sep 2 |
-3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux |
Sep 2 |
The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews |
Sep 3 |
British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne |
Sep 3 |
Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV |
Sep 3 |
French troops vacate Rheims |
Sep 3 |
Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania |
Sep 3 |
Lemburg capital of Galicia, is taken after a three-day battle in which the Russians rout the Austrians |
Sep 4 |
General von Moltke ceases German advance in France |
Sep 4 |
France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace |
Sep 5 |
US President Wilson orders the US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; this will lead to the interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping to bring the US into the war |
Sep 5 |
- till the 12th Sept Battle of Marne (WWI) begins French and British forces prevent German forces advancing on Paris |
Sep 5 |
French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine |
Sep 5 |
Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London |
Sep 5 |
Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins |
Sep 7 |
NY Post Office Building opens to public |
Sep 8 |
HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titantic, sinks off Scotland |
Sep 8 |
Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1 |
Sep 9 |
-12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp |
Sep 9 |
Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0 |
Sep 9 |
World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. |
Sep 9 |
Meeting held at Gaelic League headquarters between Irish Republican Brotherhood and other extreme republicans; initial decision made to stage an uprising while Britain is at war |
Sep 11 |
William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues" |
Sep 11 |
Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there. |
Sep 12 |
Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager |
Sep 14 |
German staff-of-chief Helmut von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn |
Sep 14 |
German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches |
Sep 15 |
Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I |
Sep 15 |
US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico |
Sep 17 |
Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. |
Sep 18 |
Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I |
Sep 18 |
Gen Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on Eastern Front |
Sep 18 |
Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent |
Sep 18 |
South African troops land in German South West Africa |
Sep 19 |
Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2 |
Sep 20 |
John Redmond urges Irish Volunteers to enlist in the British Army |
Sep 22 |
1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die |
Sep 22 |
Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the armed forced after having dismissed General Beyers because of his resistance to aiding British in the war against Germany |
Sep 23 |
Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves |
Sep 26 |
Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce |
Sep 26 |
Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels |
Sep 27 |
Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit |
Sep 28 |
German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
Sep 29 |
Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant |
Oct 1 |
The Prince of Asir, the southern region of Arabia, rises in revolt against the Turks; his actions will inspire other Arab leaders to revolt |
Oct 1 |
The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth |
Oct 4 |
Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts |
Oct 5 |
World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill. |
Oct 6 |
The Russians fall back along the Eastern Front in Poland and Galicia |
Oct 9 |
German troops take Antwerp in World War I |
Oct 10 |
German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
Oct 11 |
German troops occupy Gent |
Oct 12 |
1st battle at Ypres begins |
Oct 13 |
Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre |
Oct 13 |
Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history |
Oct 13 |
Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask |
Oct 13 |
Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa |
Oct 14 |
German troops occupy Brug |
Oct 15 |
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded |
Oct 15 |
Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21) |
Oct 15 |
Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights) |
Oct 18 |
The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. |
Oct 19 |
US post office 1st used an automobile to collect & deliver mail |
Oct 21 |
Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat |
Oct 27 |
British battleship Audacious sunk by mine |
Oct 28 |
German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea |
Oct 28 |
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates |
Oct 29 |
Turkish warships storm Black Sea |
Oct 30 |
Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium), aka 'Wipers', begins |
Oct 31 |
Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey |
Nov 1 |
Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby |
Nov 1 |
German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile |
Nov 1 |
Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity |
Nov 1 |
Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front |
Nov 2 |
Great Britain annexes Cyprus |
Nov 2 |
Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk |
Nov 2 |
V Herbert & H Blossoms "Only Girl" premieres in NYC |
Nov 2 |
Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire |
Nov 4 |
Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete", NYC) |
Nov 5 |
Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus, occupied since 1878; the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey |
Nov 6 |
The British land troops (mostly from the Indian Army) at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and will begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts |
Nov 7 |
Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai |
Nov 7 |
The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. |
Nov 7 |
The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces. |
Nov 9 |
Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser 'Sydney' sinks German cruiser 'Emden', which has been attacking ships in the Pacific |
Nov 12 |
Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war |
Nov 14 |
Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game |
Nov 15 |
Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d'Italia |
Nov 16 |
Federal Reserve System formally opens |
Nov 16 |
Pope Benedict XV calls for peace |
Nov 17 |
US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral |
Nov 20 |
US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports |
Nov 21 |
Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
Nov 21 |
British army conquerors Bazra |
Nov 22 |
Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing |
Nov 22 |
Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia |
Nov 23 |
The US Army retreats from Mexico. |
Nov 24 |
Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party |
Nov 24 |
Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms |
Nov 26 |
Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die |
Nov 27 |
1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire) |
Nov 28 |
World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading. |
Dec 2 |
Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia |
Dec 3 |
Dutch army opens fire on interned Belgian soldiers: 8 killed |
Dec 4 |
Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court |
Dec 5 |
6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats U of Toronto, 14-2 |
Dec 5 |
The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country. |
Dec 6 |
German troops over run Lodz |
Dec 8 |
British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island |
Dec 8 |
Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox |
Dec 8 |
Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in NYC |
Dec 8 |
Boers rebelling against the British have recently suffered several defeats; today, one of their leaders, General Beyers, accidently drowns |
Dec 10 |
French government returns to Paris |
Dec 11 |
Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed |
Dec 12 |
The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%. |
Dec 14 |
Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires. |
Dec 15 |
Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow |
Dec 15 |
British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea |
Dec 15 |
Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary |
Dec 16 |
French offensive in Artois (Pétain) |
Dec 16 |
World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough. |
Dec 17 |
Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland |
Dec 17 |
Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate |
Dec 17 |
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities |
Dec 21 |
"Tillie's Punctured Romance" 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts |
Dec 21 |
1st feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin) |
Dec 21 |
2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances |
Dec 23 |
World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt. |
Dec 24 |
German plane drops bombs on Dover England |
Dec 25 |
Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place on the battlefields of WWI b/w British & Germans troops - gifts exchanged and football played |
Dec 26 |
The US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea, but this same day the German announce they will treat food as contraband, subject to seizure; this will weaken America's protest |
Dec 28 |
Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks |
Dec 31 |
Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000 |
Dec 31 |
As the year ends, the world finds itself engulfed in a war that would have seemed like and unimaginable nightmare only six months before |
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