Major Events
- Mar 27 First successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels
- Apr 14 Dr. Harry Plotz isolates the bacteria that causes Typhus Fever at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City
- May 25 British House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill
- Jul 28 Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of WWI
- Aug 3 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I
- Aug 18 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
- Aug 30 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) in East Prussia ends in destruction of the Russian Second Army with 122,000-170,000 killed, injured or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff
- Sep 6 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins, French and British forces prevent German advance on Paris (till the 12th Sept)
- Sep 9 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
- Sep 18 Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
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1914 in Film & TV
- Feb 12 "The Squaw Man", 1st feature-length film shot in Hollywood, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel, is released in the US
- Apr 4 Film serial "Perils of Pauline" shown for the first time in Los Angeles, California
1914 in Music
- May 15 Henri Rabaud's opera "Marouf, savetier de Caire" premieres in Paris
- Jul 28 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden, in NYC, by Harry Fox
- Sep 11 W. C. Handy "Father of the Blues" publishes his most famous composition "St Louis Blues"
Did You Know?
Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place on the battlefields of WWI between British and German troops. Instead of fighting, soldiers exchange gifts and play football
Jiang Qing
Yuri Andropov
Tove Jansson
Terence O'Neill
Thor Heyerdahl
Jonas Salk
George Reeves
Alec Guinness
Woody Strode
Jackie Coogan
Hedy Lamarr
Adolph Green
George Nissen
Bill Veeck
Joe Louis
Tenzing Norgay
Joe DiMaggioMore People Born in 1914
Fun Fact About 1914
The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Ambrose Bierce
George Westinghouse
Frederic Mistral
Franz Ferdinand
John Philip Holland
John MuirMore 1914 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1914
- Jan 14 Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke
- Apr 20 Poet and critic Ezra Pound (28) weds Dorothy Shakespear
- May 7 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in The White House
More Weddings in 1914
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Nicholas II
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