February 1914 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed.
• 02 Feb 1914 Charles Chaplin makes his film début in the comedy short ''Making a Living''.
• 04 Feb 1914 US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law.
• 07 Feb 1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco.
• 08 Feb 1914 General Zamon becomes President of Haiti.
• 10 Feb 1914 Release of the film ''Hearts Adrift'' the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
• 11 Feb 1914 Clarence Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, and his wife Katherine are granted a divorce in Paris, France.
• 12 Feb 1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• 13 Feb 1914 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City, New York.
• 14 Feb 1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands.
• 21 Feb 1914 White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China.
• 26 Feb 1914 New York Museum of Science and Industry incorporated.
• 28 Feb 1914 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco).

Famous Birthday

• William Burroughs

  American writer, bisexual and heroin addict.

• Gypsy Rose Lee

  Seattle, Washington -- Stripper (or 0109 or 0208).

• Jacques Dufilho

  French stage and screen actor and comedian.

• André Bellec

  French singer, member of vocalist and humoristic band "Les Frères Jacques" (four members).

• Per-Jakez Helias

  Writer / teacher, dies at 81.

• Larry Adler

  American harmonica player composer and actor (d. 2001).

• Henri Caillavet
• Nicolas Roland Payen
• Yvan Audouard

  French journalist and writer, the father of writer Antoine Audouard.

• René Vietto
• Marcel Gili

  French sculptor, painter and art teacher.

• Robert Alda

  American-born actor (Dan Lewis - Supertrain), dies at age 72 (born 1914).

• Pee Wee King

  American country music songwriter and musician (Born 1914).

• Zachary Scott
• Heather Jenner

  British writer and businesswoman who was a match-maker from the age of five when she was engaged to two boys.

• Robert Huebner

  American physician and virologist, he is best known for his work establishing the link between viruses and cancer.

• Arthur Kennedy

  Worcester, Massachusetts -- Actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place).

• Ernest Tubb

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984).

• Cecelia Dvorak

  American astrologer; the founder of a school in Hollywood in 1968, later relocating to San Diego, CA.

• Albert Westerlinck
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Famous Deaths

• J Albert Neuhuys Dutch painter (Hague School)

  dies at age 69.

• John Tenniel British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)

  dies at age 93.

• Thillaiaadi Valliammai

  a Tamil satyagrahi from South Africa (Born 1898).

• Joshua Chamberlain

  Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg (Born 1828).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elsie Baker & James F. Harrison - If We Were On Our Honeymoon
2. Columbia Stellar Quartet - The Girl I Left Behind Me
3. Harry Macdonough & Marguerite Dunlap - When It's Apple Blossom time in Normandy
4. Walter Van Brunt - Peg O' My Heart
5. Peerless Quartet - Oh You Million Dollar Doll