1914 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1914?
- January 5, 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- May 16, 1914 – The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
- June 23, 1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
- July 27, 1914 – Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government.
- August 6, 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
- August 15, 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
- August 28, 1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
- September 1, 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- October 19, 1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- November 1, 1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
- November 7, 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 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 24, 1914 – World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
- December 29, 1914 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
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