1914 - What happened in 1914 ?

January 1914

Monday 05:

Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.

February 1914

Friday 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 1914

Sunday 01:

The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.

Thursday 19:

Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)

Friday 20:

1914 – In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.

April 1914

Monday 20:

Seventeen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a bitter Colorado coal-miner's strike.

Wednesday 22:

Babe Ruth, age 19, pitches his first professional game for the minor league Baltimore Orioles.

Monday 27:

Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

May 1914

Friday 08:

Paramount Pictures is formed.

Saturday 09:

J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.

Friday 15:

Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Monday 25:

The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.

Friday 29:

Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.

June 1914

Sunday 07:

The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal.

Sunday 28:

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist young man: Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.

Monday 29:

Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

July 1914

Saturday 11:

Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.

Saturday 18:

The United States Army's Signal Corps is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.

Monday 20:

Russia: Czar Nicholas II welcomes France's President Raymond Poincaré.

Thursday 23:

Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914

Tuesday 28:

World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.

August 1914

Saturday 01:

Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.

Wednesday 12:

World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia

Saturday 15:

The Panama Canal opens to traffic

Saturday 22:

World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.

Wednesday 26:

World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.

September 1914

Tuesday 01:

The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

Thursday 03:

Papacy of Giacomo della Chiesa began. He becomes pope Benedict XV.

Thursday 17:

Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

Friday 18:

The Battle of Aisne ends.

Saturday 26:

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

October 1914

Friday 09:

Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.

Monday 19:

The First Battle of Ypres begins.

November 1914

Sunday 01:

World War I: the first British naval defeat of the war, the Battle of Coronel is fought off of the coast of Chile.

Thursday 05:

United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

Saturday 07:

The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.

Monday 16:

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.

Saturday 28:

World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

December 1914

Tuesday 08:

Battle of the Falkland Islands fought.

Tuesday 15:

The Battle of ?ód? ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow

Monday 21:

First feature-length silent film comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, is released

Thursday 24:

World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins

Friday 25:

World War I: The Christmas truce: Just after midnight on Christmas morning, German and British troops on the Western Front cease firing their guns and artillery and sing Christmas carols. Crossing the No man's land, they trade gifts with the enemy forces that face them. They also played a game of soccer with a makeshift soccer ball (fashioned by the Germans) This truce lasts for several days, depending on the location.