January 1914 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1914 1st scheduled airline flight, St. Petersburg-Tampa
• 02 Jan 1914 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven.
• 05 Jan 1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• 06 Jan 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
• 09 Jan 1914 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
• 10 Jan 1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 minutes in 43.7 seconds in Oslo.
• 13 Jan 1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia.
• 14 Jan 1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords.
• 16 Jan 1914 Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia.
• 24 Jan 1914 Opera Madeleine, premieres in New York City
• 26 Jan 1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike.
• 28 Jan 1914 1st Millrose Games (athletics) held

Famous Birthday

• Nicolas de Staël

  Russian-French painter and illustrator (d. 1955).

• Etty Hillesum

  Dutch author and autobiographer.

• Noor Inayat Khan

  Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944).

• Jane Wyman
• Lucien Bodard

  French writer and journalist specialized in Asia.

• George Reeves

  Actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45.

• Robert Darène
• Théo Lefevre
• Ralph Lazarus

  American businessman.

• Tom Neal

  American boxer and actor.

• Ronald C Davison
• Danny Thomas

  Deerfield, Michigan -- Comedian ( Show).

• Luc Dochier
• Danny Thomas

  Deerfield, Michigan -- Comedian ( Show).

• Vittorio Cottafavi
• Jean-Pierre Vernant

  French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece.

• Dorothy Jeakins

  American costume designer on movies that include "South Pacific," "Hawaii" and "Friendly Persuasions.

• Roger Wagner

  French-American composer, conductor and arranger, an educator.

• James MacKenzie
• Georges Cravenne

  French film producer, publicity agent and founder of the César Award.

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Famous Deaths

• Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Stephane Raoul Pugno composer

  dies at age 62.

• Silas Weir Mitchell US physician/author (Free Quaker)

  dies at age 84.

• Ambrose Bierce writer

  dies at age 71.

• Bernardus H Heldt Dutch Member of Parliament

  dies at age 72.

• Emil Liebling composer

  dies at age 62.

• Henry Southwick Perkins composer

  dies at age 80.

• Frederik Rung composer

  dies at age 60.

• Carl Jacobsen

  Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery is named (Born 1842).

• Theodor Kittelsen

  Norwegian painter and illustrator (d. 1914).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - On the Old Fall River Line
2. John McCormack - I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby
3. John Barnes Wells - My Wonderful Dream Girl
4. Billy Murray - On the Old Fall River Line
5. Victor Military Band - That International Rag