1914 Calendar

January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.

February 13, 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

February 26, 1914 – Ship HMHS, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

March 7, 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.

May 29, 1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.

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.

September 11, 1914 – Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.

October 19, 1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.

October 27, 1914 – World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

November 2, 1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

March 2, 1914 – Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990)

March 14, 1914 – Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)

April 12, 1914 – Armen Alchian, American economist

May 9, 1914 – Hank Snow, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1999)

July 2, 1914 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)

July 8, 1914 – Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993)

July 28, 1914 – Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)

August 12, 1914 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)

November 22, 1914 – Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)