October 1914 calendar

Events

• 03 Oct 1914 World War I: 33,000 Canadian troops depart for Europe, the largest force to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean at the time.
• 04 Oct 1914 Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
• 05 Oct 1914 World War I: first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
• 07 Oct 1914 Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. marries Rose Fitzgerald in Boston.
• 09 Oct 1914 World War I: Siege of Antwerp : Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• 10 Oct 1914 German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I).
• 11 Oct 1914 German troops occupy Gent
• 12 Oct 1914 1st battle at Ypres, begins
• 13 Oct 1914 Belgian regime forms at St. Adresse at Le Havre
• 14 Oct 1914 German troops occupy Bruges.
• 15 Oct 1914 Battle of Warsaw, begins
• 18 Oct 1914 The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
• 19 Oct 1914 US post office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail
• 21 Oct 1914 Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
• 27 Oct 1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
• 28 Oct 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
• 29 Oct 1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea
• 30 Oct 1914 Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
• 31 Oct 1914 Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey

Famous Birthday

• Dylan Thomas

  Welsh writer of poetry, short story, movie scenarios and radio scripts, immensely talented.

• Thor Heyerdahl

  Norwegian adventurer, a sailor and descendent of the Vikings who sailed a balsa raft, the "Kon Tiki," across the Pacific in 1947 with a crew...

• Jonas Salk

  American scientist, immunologist, biologist, and bacteriologist.

• Jean Parédès
• John Berryman

  American writer, a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.

• Jackie Coogan

  American actor, one of the most famous and appealing of the child stars.

• Samuel Alderson
• Anna Wing

  British actress receiving fame for her appearance on "EastEnders" for three years from February 1985.

• Mohammed Zahir Shah

  King of Afghanistan (Born 1914).

• Sarah Churchill (actress)
• Martin Gardner

  Scientific American math and puzzles columnist.

• Frederick Beavis

  Canadian politician, elected City Alderman of Toronto in 1956 and re-elected to a second term on 7/071967.

• Albert Rieux

  France Actor.

• Alfred Henry Simpson
• Joseph Melnick

  American physician and researcher, a founder of modern virology and a leader in polio research and in environmental science.

• Charles Dubost

  St-Gaultier physician.

• Jean-Toussaint Desanti
• Ray Stark
• Mary W Boyd
• Raymond Davis Jr

  American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1914).

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Famous Deaths

• Gijsbert van Tienhoven

  Mayor (Amsterdam) / foreign minister, dies at 73.

• Karol I

  Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914).

• Aleksander Rozycki

  Composer, dies at 69.

• King Carol

  I of Romania (Born 1839).

• Konishiki Yasokichi I

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (Born 1866).

• Ernst Stadler

  German Expressionist poet.

• Richard Heuberger

  Austrian composer, music critic and teacher (Born 1850).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Prince's Orchestra - That's a-Plenty
2. Irving Kaufman - California and You
3. Alma Gluck & Louise Homer - Rock of Ages
4. Billy Murray & Will Oakland - Just for To-Night
5. Walter Van Brunt - Mary, You're a Little Bit Old-Fashioned