1914

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1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes
5 Fictional references

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Events

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January-April

January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador.
January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
January 10 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of Chihuahua
February 13 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
March 1 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
March 10 - Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velasquez painting Rokeby Venus in London’s national gallery with a meat chopper.
March 16 - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage. (She is later acquitted.)
March 27 - Belgian surgeon A. Hustin makes the first successful blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
March 29 - Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island to make the first true study of it (departs August 1915)
April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
April 20 - Colorado coalfield Massacre or Ludlow Massacre. Colorado National guard attacks 1200 tent colony of striking coal miners in Ludlow - 24 people dead.
April 21 - 3000 US marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
The American Radio Relay League is founded.

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May-July

May 9 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
May 14 - Woodrow Wilson signs Mother's Day proclamation.
May 14 - The Hellenic Holocaust begins in the Ottoman Empire.
May 25 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.
May 29 - The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.

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June 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
June 18 - Constitutionals take San Luis Potos - Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender
June 23 - Kiel Canal reopened (owing to its having been deepened) by the Kaiser: Visit of the British Fleet under Sir G. Warrender: Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought H.M.S. "King George V".
June 28 - The assassination in Sarajevo: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, the Archduchess Sophie are killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
June 29 - Austria-Hungary: Secretary of the Legation at Belgrade sends despatch to Vienna suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of Sarajevo.Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and throughout Bosnia generally.
June 30-Great Britain: Addresses in Parliament on the murdered Archduke: Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in House of Lords; Messrs. Asquith and Law in House of Commons.
July 2 -Announcement that the Kaiser will not attend the Archduke's funeral.
July 4 - Austria-Hungary: Funeral of the Archduke at Artstetten (50 miles west of Vienna).
July 5 - Council at Potsdam.
July 6 - Kaiser leaves Kiel for a cruise in Northern waters.
July 7 - Austria-Hungary: Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, Chief of General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief: Council lasts from 11.30 a.m. to 6.15 p.m.
July 8 -Count Tisza makes grave statement in Hungarian Chamber concerning the murder of the Archduke.
July 9 -The House of Lords completed the recasting of the Amendment Bill(Ireland).Among the Amendments adopted with one excluding the Unionists of the West and South (as well as Ulster

)from the jurisdiction of the judiciary appointed by the Home Rule Government;and another withdrawing of the Land Purchase Acts from the conrol of the Irish Parliment. Austria-Hungary.-Emperor recieves report of Austro-Hungarian investigation into the Sarajevo crime.The London Times publishes account of Austro-Hungarian press campaign against Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").

July 10 - Mr.Hartwig,Russian Minister to Serbia, dies suddenly at Austrian Legation in Belegrade.
July 12 - Demonstrations in Ulster suggesting Civil War.
July 13 - Reports of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belegrade.
July 15 - Victoriano Huerta resigns and leaves for Colón. July 17 he leaves for exile in Spain
July 18 - The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
July 28 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it fails to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.
July 31 - French pacifist Jean Jaures is assassinated.