Month October 1914 Calendar

About Month of October Calendar

• October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
  
  October symbols: The birthstones of Octoberare the tourmaline and opal. Its birth flower is the calendula. The zodiac signs for the month of October are Libra (until October 22) or Scorpio (October 23 onwards). October Star Stones: Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22). Planetary Stone: Sapphire; Lucky Charms: Opal, Sardonyx, Chrysolite; birthstone: pink Tourmaline, Opal. Scorpio (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21). Planetary Stone: Garnet, Ruby; Lucky Charms: Aquamarine, Beryl. October Mystical birthstone is Jasper. October Ayurvedic Birthstone is Opal.

Historical Events for October, 1914

• Day of Week 5th » World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
• Day of Week 9th » World War I: Siege of Antwerp (1914) e.g Siege of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• Day of Week 18th » The Schoenstatt known as Schoenstatt Movement is founded in German Empire known as Germany.
• Day of Week 19th » The First Battle of Ypres begins.
• Day of Week 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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