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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage
of $5 for a day's labor.
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.
April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas was incorporated.
May - American Radio Relay League founded.
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 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
June 28 - Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of
Austria at Sarajevo, Bosnia.
July 18 - Within the United States Army the Signal Corps 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 failed to meet
the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.
August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia following latter's military mobilization in
support of Serbia.
August 2 - German troops occupy Luxembourg.
August 3 - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France.
August 4 - German troops invade neutral Belgium in advance on France. Britain declares war
on Germany after the latter fails to undertake to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States
declares neutrality.
August 5 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
August 15 - Panama Canal opens to traffic.
August 23, Japan declares war on Germany.
August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
September 5 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris, the French
6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury attack German forces who are advancing
on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 100,000 will be killed or
wounded in this significant Allied victory.
September 6 - French and British counterattack at Marne ends German advance on Paris.
September 26 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established by the Federal
Trade Commission Act.
October 9 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
October 29 - World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports: Russia,
France and Britain declare war on November 1-5.
November 1 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron
commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock is met and defeated by the
superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. This is the
first British naval defeat of the war.
November 5 - The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares
war on the Ottoman Empire.
November 16 - A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve
Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially
opens for business.
November 28 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York
Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
W. H. Carrier patents design of air conditioner.
The capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China moved from
Guilin to Nanning.
Births:
January 1 -
Noor Inayat Khan, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis († 1944).
January 4 -
Jane Wyman, actress.
January 5 -
George Reeves, actor († 1959).
January 6 -
Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian († 1991).
January 14 -
Aarnout Stroosnijder.
January 14 -
Harold Russell, actor († 2002).
January 17 -
William Stafford, poet and pacifist († 1993).
January 18 -
Arno Schmidt, author († 1979).
January 30 -
David Wayne, actor († 1995).
January 30 -
John Ireland, actor († 1992).
January 31 -
Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer († 1994).
February 4 -
Alfred Andersch, narrator and author of radio drama († 1980).
February 4 -
Ida Lupino, actress, director, writer († 1995).
February 5 -
William S. Burroughs, US author († 1997).
February 6 -
Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger").
February 9 - Gypsy
Rose Lee, actress, ecdysiast († 1970).
February 9 -
Ernest Tubb, country music singer († 1984).
February 11 -
Matt Dennis, singer.
February 11 -
French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer.
February 11 -
Menelaos Pallantios, composer.
February 11 -
Winand Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam.
February 12 -
Tex Beneke, musician, band leader († 2000).
February 24 -
Zachary Scott, actor.
March 1 -
Ralph Ellison, writer († 1994).
March 2 -
Martin Ritt, director († 1990).
March 5 -
Hubrecht Marinus van den Houten.
March 7 -
Regina Jacoba Augusta Julia van den Houten.
March 7 -
Gerritje van Apeldoorn.
March 13 -
Edward O'Hare, US pilot († 1943).
March 17 -
Sammy Baugh, American football star.
March 19 -
Jay Berwanger, football star, 1st Heisman Trophy winner († 2002).
March 26 -
William Westmoreland, United States commander in Vietnam War.
March 28 -
Edmund Muskie, United States politician († 1996).
March 30 -
Sonny Boy Williamson, musician.
March 31 -
Octavio Paz, author, Nobel Prize for Literature († 1998).
April 2 -
Alec Guinness, actor († 2000).
April 4 -
Marguerite Duras, writer († 1996).
April 22 -
Elisabeth van den Houten.
April 22 -
Johannes Antonius van den Houten.
April 22 -
Jan de Hartog, writer († 2002).
April 25 -
Ross Lockridge Jr., writer († 1948).
April 26 -
Bernard Malamud, author († 1986).
April 26 -
Lilian Rolfe, SOE agent executed by the Nazis († 1945).
May 8 -
Romain Gary, writer and diplomat († 1980).
May 9 -
Hank Snow, country musician († 1999).
May 12 -
Howard K. Smith, journalist († 2002).
May 13 -
Joe Louis, boxer († 1981).
May 19 -
Go Seigen, Go player.
May 19 -
Max Perutz, molecular biologist († 2002).
May 22 -
Vance Packard, author († 1996).
May 22 -
Sun Ra, jazz musician († 1993).
May 28 -
W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot († 1996).
May 29 -
Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa († 1986).
May 29 -
Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer († 1988).
May -
Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer († 2003).
June 6 -
Johannis Antonius van den Houten.
June 15 -
Yuri Andropov, soviet politician and General Secretary of CPSU († 1984).
June 19 -
Alan Cranston, US senator († 2000).
June 21 -
William Vickrey, economist († 1996).
July 2 -
Nicolaas Jacobus van den Houten.
July 19 -
John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian SOE agent († 1944).
July 30 - Lord
Killanin, sixth president of the IOC († 1999).
August 17 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., lawyer, politician († 1988).
August 17 -
Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian heroine of World War II († 1945).
September 5 -
Sor Isolina Ferre, Puerto Rican catholic nun († 2000).
September 12 -
Desmond Llewelyn, British actor, (Q in the James Bond movies) († 1999).
September 12 -
Janusz Zurakowski, Polish-Canadian pilot († 2004).
September 16 -
Allen Funt, host of Candid Camera († 1999).
October 6 -
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer († 2002).
October 16 -
Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan.
October 21 -
Martin Gardner, writer on mathematics and games.
October 27 -
Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author († 1953).
October 28 -
Jonas Salk, medical scientist, developer of polio vaccine († 1995).
November 8 -
Fred van Houten.
November 11 -
Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer.
November 20 -
Charles Berlitz, author († 2003).
November 20 -
Jean-Pierre Grenier, actor († 2000).
November 25 -
Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player († 1999).
December 2 -
Anna Langstraten.
December 10 -
Dorothy Lamour, actress († 1996).
December 26 -
Richard Widmark, actor.
December 29 -
Billy Tipton, jazz musician († 1989).
December 30 -
Bert Parks, singer, actor, host of Miss America Pageant († 1992).
Deaths:
April 1 -
Rube Waddell, Baseball Hall of Famer.
April 26 -
Naboth Cornelis van Dijl.
May 2 -
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise of the
United Kingdom, aunt of King George V.
May 7 -
Cornelis van den Houten --> Cornelis Noteboom.
May 26 -
Willemtje (Willempje) van Splunder.
June 28 -
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria.
June 28 -
Archduchess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand.
July 3 -
Joseph Chamberlain, British politician.
July 20 -
Anna Polderman.
August 20 -
Aart van den Houten.
August 20 - Pope
Pius X.
August 30 -
Aleksander Samsonov, Russian general.
September 1 -
Martha, the last passenger pigeon.
November 2 -
Stoffelina Rommelse.
November 21 -
Pieter van den Houten.
November 26 -
Cornelia Noteboom.
December 17 -
Antonia van Tiel.
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