What Happened In October 1914 In History

Historical Events for October, 1914

• 5th » World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
• 9th » World War I: Siege of Antwerp (1914) e.g Siege of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• 18th » The Schoenstatt known as Schoenstatt Movement is founded in German Empire known as Germany.
• 19th » The First Battle of Ypres begins.
• 27th » World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (1912) known as HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a naval mine or minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser 'Berlin'.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1914

• 1st » Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, lawyer, and author, 12th Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
• 2nd » Jack Parsons (rocket engineer) e.g Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952)
• 2nd » Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian (d. 1998)
• 4th » Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2003)
• 4th » Brendan Gill, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
• 6th » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (d. 2002)
• 6th » Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (d. 2002)
• 7th » Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
• 7th » Sarah Churchill (actress) e.g Sarah Churchill, English actress and dancer (d. 1982)
• 7th » Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 9th » Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985)
• 10th » Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 10th » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1974)
• 14th » Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
• 14th » Raymond Davis, Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 14th » Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
• 14th » Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985)
• 15th » Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (d. 2007)
• 17th » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
• 18th » Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
• 19th » Juanita Moore, American actress (d. 2014)
• 20th » Fayard Nicholas, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2006)
• 21st » Martin Gardner, American author (d. 2010)
• 24th » Claude B. Duval, People from Houma, Louisiana (d. 1986)
• 24th » Charles Craig Cannon, United States Army officers (d. 1992)
• 24th » Samuel Karnarvon Asbell, Saskatchewan politician stubs (d. 1965)
• 24th » Ernesto Segura, 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops (d. 1972)
• 24th » František Čapek, Czechoslovak canoeists (d. 2008)
• 25th » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (d. 1972)
• 26th » Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
• 27th » Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (d. 1953)
• 28th » Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988)
• 28th » Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
• 28th » Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 29th » Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (d. 2012)
• 30th » Richard E. Holz, American minister and composer (d. 1986)
• 30th » Anna Wing, English actress (d. 2013)
• 30th » Leabua Jonathan, Basotho politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (d. 1987)
• 31st » Joe Carcione, American activist and author (d. 1988)
• 31st » John Hugenholtz, Dutch designer (d. 1995)

Famous Deaths for October 1914

• 10th » Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
• 22nd » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (sumo) named Yokozuna (b. 1866)
• 28th » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)

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