August 1914 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
• 02 Aug 1914 Belgian government receives German ultimatum
• 03 Aug 1914 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
• 04 Aug 1914 German army shoots Belgian priests / burns down village of Battice
• 05 Aug 1914 1st traffic light installed
• 06 Aug 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia
• 07 Aug 1914 British Gloucester vs. German Breslau / Goeben off Greece
• 08 Aug 1914 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton Endurance
• 09 Aug 1914 German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
• 10 Aug 1914 At Luik, German 12 / 16.5 guns reach Belgian boundary
• 11 Aug 1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary
• 12 Aug 1914 Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium
• 13 Aug 1914 Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
• 14 Aug 1914 British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France
• 15 Aug 1914 13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York
• 16 Aug 1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
• 17 Aug 1914 Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
• 18 Aug 1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
• 19 Aug 1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
• 20 Aug 1914 Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
• 21 Aug 1914 20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian Country Club - Illinois
• 22 Aug 1914 Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny and Virton
• 23 Aug 1914 Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
• 24 Aug 1914 Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian / British troops
• 25 Aug 1914 Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
• 26 Aug 1914 World War I: the British Expeditionary Force fights a rear-guard action at the Battle of Le Cateau that briefly checks the German advance.
• 27 Aug 1914 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
• 28 Aug 1914 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German / Russian battles
• 29 Aug 1914 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught
• 30 Aug 1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
• 31 Aug 1914 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan

Famous Birthday

• Julio Cortázar

  Argentinian novelist, short story writer, translator and essayist.

• Jose Silva

  American entrepreneur, the founder of "Silva Mind Control.

• Luis Mariano

  Spanish Basque singer, his family settled in Bordeaux.

• Pierre de Bénouville
• Félix Leclerc

  Canadian singer-songwriter actor and poet (d. 1988).

• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury

  French radical socialist politician, Prime Minister of France in 1957.

• Joan Blondell
• Richard Basehart

  American stage actor in the '30s who made his Broadway debut in 1938.

• William Hiltner

  American astronomer and astrophysicist who taught at the University of Chicago from 1943-70.

• Anthony West
• Raymond Marcellin

  French Minister of Interior under General De Gaulle, and then of Agriculture, mayor of Vannes (Brittany) , he was widely known for having...

• Ken Annakin
• Parley Baer

  American actor (d. 2002).

• Jeff Corey

  NYC, New York -- Actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men).

• Pete King (composer)
• Lydia Lamaison
• Tove Jansson

  Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.

• Glenn Osser

  Munising, Michigan -- Orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue).

• Tullio Pandolfini

  Italy -- Water polo (1948 Olympics - Gold Medalist).

• Susan Cowdy

  Ornithologist.

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Famous Deaths

• Raffenel

  French General (3rd Colonial Div, WWI), dies in battle.

• Rondoney

  French General (3rd Colonial Div, WWI), dies in battle.

• Adrian H Stewart

  British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26.

• Aleksandr Samsonov

  Russian General, commits suicide.

• Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont

  Composer, dies at 36.

• Ellen Wilson

  1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54.

• Boleslaw Dembinski

  Composer, dies at 81.

• James Grierson

  British General.

• Pius X [Giuseppe M Sarto]

  Pope (1903-14).

• Felix Fivet

  Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks.

• George A Pogson

  British consul in Puerto Rico.

• John Weiss

  German new testament.

• Anatoli Liadov

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Machagovsky

  Russian General (Tannenberg), dies in battle.

• John Philip Holland

  Irish submarine designer (Born 1840).

• Pope Pius

  X (Born 1835).

• Franz Xavier Wernz

  German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Born 1844).

• Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi

  Italian religious figure (Born 1859).

• Jules Lemaitre

  French critic and dramatist (Born 1853).

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