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List of events
Events from the year 1914 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
April–June
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
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
SS Ypiranga 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
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
Joe DiMaggio
January 4 –
Herman Franks , baseball player, coach and manager (died
2009 )
[2]
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
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
February 11 –
Matt Dennis , singer and songwriter (died
2002 )
February 16 –
Jimmy Wakely , country-western singer, actor (died
1982 )
[3]
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
March 2
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
April 3 –
Harry E. Goldsworthy , American Air Force lieutenant general
April 4 –
Richard Coogan , actor (died
2014 )
[4]
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
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
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
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
July 5 –
John Thomas Dunlop , administrator and labor scholar (died
2003 )
July 6 –
Ernest Kirkendall , chemist and metallurgist (died
2005 )
July 7
July 14
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 )
[7]
July 29 –
Irwin Corey , actor and comedian (died
2017 )
[8]
August 2 –
Beatrice Straight , actress (died
2001 )
[9]
August 5
August 10 –
Jeff Corey , actor and drama teacher (died
2002 )
August 16
August 17
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
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
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 )
[10]
October 16 –
Leonard Litwin , real estate developer (died
2017 )
[11]
October 21 –
Martin Gardner , writer (died
2010 )
[12]
October 23 –
Dick Durrance , skier (died
2004 )
October 25
October 28
October 29 –
Ben Gage , actor, singer, and radio announcer (died
1978 )
October 30 –
Jane Randolph , actress (died
2009 )
November 2
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
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 )
[16]
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
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
Adlai Stevenson I
Ellen Axson Wilson
January 8 –
Simon Bolivar Buckner , soldier and politician, 30th governor of Kentucky (born
1823 )
[17]
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 )
[18]
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 )
[19]
November 15 –
Harry Turner , American football player (born
1887 )
[20]
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
References
^
"Plan Big Meeting For Dead Bomb Men: Demonstration in Union Square by Anti-Militarist League Announced for Tomorrow" (pdf) .
The New York Times . 1914-07-10. p. 1. Retrieved 2008-07-13 .
^ Goldstein, Richard (April 1, 2009).
"Baseball's Herman Franks Dies at 95" .
The New York Times . Retrieved April 1, 2009 .
^ Krampert, Peter (2016).
The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica . Mel Bay Publications. p. 179.
ISBN
9781619115774 . Retrieved 25 December 2017 .
^ Barnes, Mike (March 12, 2014).
"Richard Coogan, Star of 'Captain Video and His Video Rangers,' Dies at 99" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 13, 2014 .
^ Daniel Horowitz (9 November 2000).
Vance Packard and American Social Criticism . Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 11.
ISBN
978-0-8078-6211-7 .
^
Blair, Jayson .
"Harvey B. Scribner, New York Schools Chancellor in a Turbulent Era, Dies at 88" ,
The New York Times , December 24, 2002. Accessed August 18, 2010.
^
^ Ron Werthimer (February 7, 2017).
"Irwin Corey, Comedian and 'Foremost Authority,' Dies at 102" .
The New York Times . Retrieved February 7, 2017 .
^ Mel Gussow (April 11, 2001).
"Beatrice Straight, Versatile Star, Dies at 86" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2015-01-21 .
^ Robyn V. Young; Suzanne Sessine (2000).
World of Chemistry . Gale Group. p. 295.
ISBN
978-0-7876-3650-0 .
^
Leonard Litwin, New York Real Estate Mogul, Dies at 102 . The New York Times . Retrieved April 3, 2017.
^ Clifford Thompson (December 1999).
Current Biography Yearbook: 1999 . Hw Wilson Company. p. 217.
ISBN
978-0-8242-0988-9 .
^ Thomas J. Travisano (29 December 1999).
Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic . University of Virginia Press. p. 73.
ISBN
978-0-8139-2918-7 .
^ Oren Harman; Michael R. Dietrich (20 July 2018).
Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences . University of Chicago Press. p. 83.
ISBN
978-0-226-56990-1 .
^ Cleveland Amory (1959).
International Celebrity Register . Celebrity Register. p. 248.
^
"Joe DiMaggio | Biography & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 17 February 2020 .
^ Sons of the American Revolution (1914).
National Year Book . Sons of the American Revolution. p. 98.
^
"G. W. Vanderbilt Dies Suddenly. Seemed to be Recovering from Operation for Appendicitis When Heart Failed" .
New York Times . March 7, 1914. Retrieved 2011-04-21 . George Washington Vanderbilt of New York died suddenly this afternoon at his Washington residence, 1,612 K Street. With him at the time were Mrs. Vanderbilt and their thirteen-year-old daughter, Miss Cornelia S. Vanderbilt.
^ United States. Adjutant-General's Office (1914).
Official Army Register for ... p. 655.
^
CANTON BOY IS KILLED IN GAME OF FOOTBALL
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