Английская Википедия:1914 in the United States

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Шаблон:Yearbox US Шаблон:Year in U.S. states and territories Шаблон:More citations needed Events from the year 1914 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey)
• Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (D-Indiana)
• Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark (D-Missouri)
• Congress: 63rd

Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors Lieutenant governors

Events

January–March

• January 1 – The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the world's first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Anthony Jannus (the first federally licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure.Шаблон:Citation needed
• January 5 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• January 9 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded at Howard University (a historically black university) in Washington, D.C.
• February 13 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

April–June

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Wrigley Field in 2009.
April 23: Weeghman Park, later known as Wrigley Field, opens

• April 6 – The American Radio Relay League is founded.
• April 9 – Tampico Affair, involving U.S. Navy sailors in Mexico.
• April 11 – Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago.
• April 14 – The city of Irving, Texas, is incorporated.
• April 18 – Eccles mine disaster
• April 20
  • Ludlow Massacre (Colorado Coalfield War (1913–14)): The Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 24 people.
  • President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to use military force in Mexico in reaction to the Tampico Affair.
• April 21 – United States occupation of Veracruz: 2,300 U.S. Navy sailors and Marines from the South Atlantic fleet land in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, which they will occupy for over 6 months. The Ypiranga incident occurs when they attempt to enforce an arms embargo against Mexico by preventing the German cargo steamer Шаблон:SS from unloading arms for the Mexican government in the port. On April 22 Mexico for the time being ends diplomatic relations with the U.S.
• April 23 – The baseball stadium Weeghman Park, later known as Wrigley Field, opens in Chicago.
• May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.
• June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

July–September

• July 4 – Lexington Avenue bombing: 4 people are killed in New York City when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely in the plotters' apartment.
• July 11
  • Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
  • USS Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched.
  • Over 5,000 attend a rally in Union Square, Manhattan, called by the Anti-Militarist League to commemorate the anarchists killed in the July 4 Lexington Avenue bombing.
• July 18 – The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
• August 1 – New York Stock Exchange closed due to war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges are already closed.
• August 4 – German troops invade neutral Belgium at 8:02 AM (local time). Britain declares war on Germany for this violation of Belgian neutrality. This move effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Commonwealth and Empire against Germany. The United States declares neutrality.
• August 15
  • The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the steamship U.S.S. Ancon.
  • A dismissed servant kills seven people at architect Frank Lloyd Wright's studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including Wright's mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets it on fire.
• September 1 – The last known passenger pigeon "Martha" dies in the Cincinnati Zoo.
• September 26 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• September 30 – The Flying Squadron is established to promote the temperance movement.

October–December

• October 7 – Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. marries Rose Fitzgerald in Boston.
• 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 23 – U.S. troops withdraw from Veracruz. Venustiano Carranza's troops take over and Carranza makes the town his headquarters.
• November 28 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
• December 12 – The New York Stock Exchange re-opened, having been closed since August 1, 1914, except for bond trading.
• December 17 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton Harrison).

Undated

• The Port of Orange, Texas, is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy.
• The United States Power Squadrons is formed.
• Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Greek Department at the University of Chicago.
• Henry Ford sells 248,000 cars.

Ongoing

• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)

Births

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Joe DiMaggio

• January 4 – Herman Franks, baseball player, coach and manager (died 2009)
• January 7 – Bobby McDermott, basketball player (died 1963)
• January 12 – Edward Gurney, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1969 to 1974 (died 1996)
• January 27 – Smokey Hogg, Texas blues and country blues musician (died 1960)
• January 30 – David Wayne, actor (died 1995)
• January 31
  • Carey Loftin, actor and stuntman (died 1997)
  • Daya Mata (b. Alice Faye Wright), president of Self-Realization Fellowship (died 2010)
  • Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer (died 1994)
• February 5 – William S. Burroughs, writer and artist (died 1997)
• February 6 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American actor, voice actor and bass singer (died 2005)
• February 9
  • Bill Justice, Disney animator (died 2011)
  • Ernest Tubb, singer (died 1984)
• February 11 – Matt Dennis, singer and songwriter (died 2002)
• February 16 – Jimmy Wakely, country-western singer, actor (died 1982)
• February 17 – Wayne Morris, American actor and producer (died 1959)
• February 18 – Marion Miley, golfer (died 1941)
• February 21 – Zachary Scott, actor (died 1965)
• March 1
  • Harry Caray, baseball broadcaster (died 1998)
  • Ralph Ellison, writer (died 1994)
• March 2
  • Mayo Kaan, bodybuilder (died 2002)
  • Martin Ritt, director (died 1990)
• March 4 – Robert R. Wilson, physicist, sculptor and architect (died 2000)
• March 10 – Leland McPhie, centenarian track and field athlete (died 2015)
• March 13 – Edward "Butch" O'Hare, American pilot (died 1943)
• March 14 – Hubert Zemke, fighter ace (died 1994)
• March 17 – Sammy Baugh, American football player (died 2008
• March 19 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (died 2002)
• March 20 – Richard Carlyle, American actor (died 2009)
• March 25 – Norman Borlaug, agronomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (died 2009)
• March 27
  • Budd Schulberg, screenwriter (died 2009)
  • Richard Denning, actor (died 1998)
• April 3 – Harry E. Goldsworthy, American Air Force lieutenant general
• April 4 – Richard Coogan, actor (died 2014)
• April 17 – Dovey Johnson Roundtree, civil rights activist, ordained minister and attorney (died 2018)
• April 20 – Betty Lou Gerson, actress (died 1999)
• April 21 – James Henry Quello, Federal Communications Commissioner (died 2010)
• April 24 – William Castle, film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1977)
• April 25 – Jerry Gaetz, politician (died 1964)
• May 9 – Denham Fouts, prostitute (died 1948)
• May 12 – Howard K. Smith, journalist (died 2002)
• May 18 – Maxine Grimm, religious figure (died 2017)
• May 22
  • Vance Packard, social critic and author (died 1996)
  • Sun Ra, musician (died 1993)
  • William Sperry Beinecke, philanthropist (died 2018)
• May 24 – Arthur A. Link, politician (died 2010)
• May 26 – Frankie Manning, choreographer, dancer (died 2009)
• June 2 – Johnny Bulla, golfer (died 2003)
• June 6 – H. Adams Carter, mountaineer, journalist and educator (died 1995)
• June 7 – Ralph M. Holman, attorney and judge (died 2013)
• June 10
  • Trammell Crow, property developer (died 2009)
  • Joseph DePietro, weightlifter (died 1999)
• June 12 – Bill Kenny, African American tenor vocalist (died 1978)
• June 19 – Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator from California from 1969 to 1993 (died 2000)
• June 21 – Rex Applegate, military officer (died 1998)
• June 26
  • Kathryn Johnston, elderly African-American police shooting victim from Atlanta, Georgia (died 2006)
  • Doc Williams, musician (died 2011)
• June 27 – Rose Cabat, studio ceramicist (died 2015)
• June 28 – Ian MacDonald, actor (died 1978)
• July 1 – Bernard B. Wolfe, politician (died 2016)
• July 2
  • Bob Allen, American Major League Baseball pitcher (died 2005)
  • Dale DeArmond, American printmaker and book illustrator (died 2006)
  • Frederick Fennell, American conductor (died 2004)
  • Ethelreda Leopold, American film actress (died 1998)
• July 5 – John Thomas Dunlop, administrator and labor scholar (died 2003)
• July 6 – Ernest Kirkendall, chemist and metallurgist (died 2005)
• July 7
  • Erni Cabat, artist (died 1994)
  • Harvey B. Scribner, educator and administrator (died 2002)
• July 14
  • Fred Fox, musician (died 2019)
  • Baruch Korff, rabbi (died 1995)
  • George Putnam, reporter and talk show host (died 2008)
• July 18 – Mack Robinson, athlete (died 2000)
• July 19 – Marius Russo, baseball player (died 2005)
• July 22 – Richard Lankford, politician (died 2003)
• July 25 – Lionel Van Deerlin, politician (died 2008)
• July 29 – Irwin Corey, actor and comedian (died 2017)
• August 2 – Beatrice Straight, actress (died 2001)
• August 5
  • Parley Baer, actor (died 2002)
  • David Brian, actor (died 1993)
• August 10 – Jeff Corey, actor and drama teacher (died 2002)
• August 16
  • John Lysak, canoeist (died 2020)
  • Frank Wilkinson, civil liberties activist (died 2006)
• August 17
  • Bill Downs, broadcast journalist and war correspondent (died 1978)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., lawyer and politician (died 1988)
• August 31 – Joan Barclay, actress (died 2002)
• September 2 – Tom Glazer, folk singer and songwriter (died 2003)
• September 9 – Marjorie Lee Brown, mathematician (died 1979)
• September 15 – Robert McCloskey, children's author/illustrator (died 2003)
• September 16 – Allen Funt, television show host (Candid Camera) (died 1999)
• September 20
  • Ken Hechler, politician (died 2016)
  • Anna Karen Morrow, actress (died 2009)
• September 18 – Harry Townes, actor (died 2001)
• September 21 – Bob Lido, singer and musician (died 2000)
• September 26 – Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne, fitness and dietary health trainer (died 2011)
• October 1 – Marvin Gay Sr., minister (died 1998)
• October 2
  • Richard Millard, suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California (died 2018)
  • Jack Parsons, rocket engineer and occultist (died 1952)
• October 3 – Ellsworth Wareham, cardiothoracic surgeon (died 2018)
• October 7 – Alfred Drake, actor and singer (died 1992)
• October 9 – Edward Andrews, stage, film and television actor (died 1985)
• October 10 – Tommy Fine, baseball player (died 2005)
• October 13 – Eleanor Perry, screenwriter and author (died 1981)
• October 14 – Raymond Davis Jr., physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
• October 16 – Leonard Litwin, real estate developer (died 2017)
• October 21 – Martin Gardner, writer (died 2010)
• October 23 – Dick Durrance, skier (died 2004)
• October 25
  • John Berryman, poet (died 1972)
  • Maudie Prickett, actress (died 1976)
• October 28
  • Glenn Robert Davis, congressman (died 1988)
  • Jonas Salk, medical researcher (died 1995)
• October 29 – Ben Gage, actor, singer, and radio announcer (died 1978)
• October 30 – Jane Randolph, actress (died 2009)
• November 2
  • Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (died 1997)
  • Ray Walston, actor (died 2001)
• November 3 – William A. Wilson, diplomat and businessman (died 2009)
• November 6 – Jonathan Harris, actor (Lost in Space) (died 2002)
• November 8 – Norman Lloyd, actor, producer and director (died 2021)
• November 10 – Tod Andrews, actor (died 1972)
• November 11
  • Daisy Bates, civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer (died 1999)
  • Howard Fast, novelist and television writer (died 2003)
  • Henry Wade, lawyer (died 2001)
• November 22 – Alex Pitko, baseball player (died 2011)
• November 23 – George Dunn, actor (died 1982)
• November 25 – Joe DiMaggio, Major League Baseball center fielder (died 1999)
• November 26 – S. Prestley Blake, businessman (died 2021)
• November 28 – Gertrude Jeannette, actress (died 2018)
• December 2 – Bill Erwin, American actor (died 2010)
• December 6 – Ruchoma Shain, American teacher and author (died 2013)
• December 8
  • Corbett Davis, American football player (died 1968)
  • Mary Tortorich, American voice teacher (died 2017)
• December 9 – Frances Reid, American actress (died 2010)
• December 18 – Chuck Apolskis, American footballer (died 1967)
• December 20 – Harry F. Byrd Jr., U.S. senator from Virginia from 1965 to 1983 (died 2012)
• December 29 – Billy Tipton, jazz musician (died 1989)
• date unknown – Clint C. Wilson Sr., African American editorial cartoonist (died 2005)

Deaths

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Adlai Stevenson I

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Ellen Axson Wilson

• January 8 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, soldier and politician, 30th governor of Kentucky (born 1823)
• January 28 – Shelby Moore Cullom, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1883 to 1913 (born 1829)
• February 14 – Augustus Octavius Bacon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1895 to 1914 (born 1839)
• February 23 – Henry M. Teller, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1882 and from 1885 to 1909 (born 1830)
• March 6 – George Washington Vanderbilt II, businessman (born 1862)
• March 26 – Benjamin Franklin Keith, vaudeville theatre owner (born 1846)
• March 28 – Randolph McCoy patriarch of the McCoy clan during the Hatfield-McCoy feud (born 1825)
• May 9 – C. W. Post, businessman, founder of Post Foods (born 1854)
• May 23 – William O'Connell Bradley, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1895 to 1899 (born 1847)
• June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson, 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 (born 1835)
• August 6 – Ellen Axson Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson, First Lady of the United States (born 1860)
• August 25 – Powell Clayton, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871 (born 1833)
• September 13 – Charles N. Felton, U.S. Senator from California from 1891 to 1893 (born 1832)
• September 28 – Christian Fleetwood, U.S. Sergeant Major in the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment during the Civil War (born 1840)
• November 1 – Adna Chaffee, Lieutenant General (born 1842)
• November 15 – Harry Turner, American football player (born 1887)
• November 20 or 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, businessman and politician (born 1832)
• December 22 – William Stanley West, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1914 (born 1849)

See also

• List of American films of 1914
• Timeline of United States history (1900–1929)

External links

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• Шаблон:Cite web