September 1914 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1914 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
• 02 Sep 1914 Moronvilliers is occupied by the Germans.
• 03 Sep 1914 British expeditionary army / general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
• 04 Sep 1914 British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany
• 05 Sep 1914 Battle of Marne (WWI) begins: Germans chase out Russians
• 06 Sep 1914 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris.
• 07 Sep 1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public
• 08 Sep 1914 British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland
• 09 Sep 1914 Battle of Marne
• 11 Sep 1914 T Handy publishes St. Louis Blues
• 12 Sep 1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
• 13 Sep 1914 World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
• 14 Sep 1914 German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
• 15 Sep 1914 US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
• 17 Sep 1914 Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 18 Sep 1914 Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
• 22 Sep 1914 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
• 23 Sep 1914 Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
• 26 Sep 1914 Germans arrest A Max, Mayor of Brussels
• 27 Sep 1914 Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit
• 28 Sep 1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I).
• 29 Sep 1914 Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
• 30 Sep 1914 The Flying Squadron is established to promote the temperance movement.

Famous Birthday

• Jack Lalanne
• Florence Aadland

  American news figure, the mother of Beverly Aadland who was, at 15, having an affair with 46-year-old Errol Flynn.

• Achille Compagnoni

  Italian mountaineer who conquered K2 on 7/31/1954.

• Will Quadflieg

  German actor and director in stage and film productions.

• Dixie Lee Ray
• Luigi Dadaglio

  Italian Roman Catholic priest, ordained 1937.

• Kenneth More

  British actor, onscreen from 1948 whose films include "No Highway In The Sky," "Doctor In The House" and "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw.

• Michel Vitold

  Russian / French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78.

• Paul Tillard

  France Writer.

• James Van Allen

  US physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts).

• Desmond Llewelyn

  Welsh-English actor (d. 1999).

• Ernst-Guenter Paris
• Tommy McQuater
• Pietro Germi

  Italian actor and director.

• Allen Funt

  Brooklyn, New York -- TV host and creator (Candid Camera).

• Slam Stewart

  American bassist and composer (d. 1987).

• Robert McCloskey

  American children's book writer and illustrator (Born 1915).

• Robert McCloskey

  American children's book writer and illustrator (Born 1915).

• Clayton Moore

  American actor (d. 1999).

• Jack Cardiff

  English director cinematographer and photographer (d. 2009).

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Famous Deaths

• Ferdinand AR Cabrera

  Spanish / German of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58.

• Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard

  Composer, dies at 49.

• William E Darwin

  British Son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74.

• Jacobus Herculas de la Rey [Uncle Chose]

  Boer General, dies at 66.

• A Lichtenstein

  Writer, dies at 25.

• Jan B Stobbaerts

  Flemish painter, dies at 76.

• Stevan Mokranjac

  Composer, dies at 58.

• Richard Sears

  American businessman (Born 1863).

• Alain-Fournier

  French poet and journalist whose fame rests on one completed novel, "The Wanderer," 1913.

• Jean Bouin

  French champion runner, the winner of an Olympic Silver Medal for running the 5,000 meter race in Stockholm 1912.

• Alberic Magnard

  French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers.

• Charles Peguy

  French poet, essayist and editor (Born 1873).

• Märtha

  Last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Charles Harrison & Grace Kerns - Love Has Wings
2. Fred Duprez - Happy Tho' Married
3. Charles Harrison & Grace Kerns - Love's Own Sweet Song
4. John McCormack - A Little Love, A Little Kiss
5. Billy Murray - The 20th Century Rag