Historical Events In 1914
Mar 31 Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia
Mar 07 US Congress establishes mother's day
Mar 27 The first successful blood transfusion is performed
Mar 09 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
Mar 09 Test of wind tunnel at Washington Navy Yard
Mar 31 The birth of Octavio Paz, mexican writer and poet
Mar 21 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld
Mar 18 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China
Mar 18 Fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons).
Mar 10 Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
Mar 21 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Norman M Scott
Mar 09 US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
Mar 27 First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
Mar 07 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House
Mar 14 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty
Mar 19 Stanley Cup Toronto Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Victoria Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
Mar 20 The first international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
Mar 19 Stanley Cup: Toronto Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Victoria Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
Mar 01 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
Mar 22 World's first airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
Mar 07 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
Mar 31 Seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two day long storm when their sealing steamer, the Newfoundland, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders.
Aug 17 The Belgian government moves its offices from Brussels to Antwerp.
Aug 20 German forces invade Brussels
Aug 20 German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
Aug 30 Battle of Tannenberg, one of history's great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30,000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.
Aug 04 Australia pledges a force of 20,000 to be placed at Britain's disposal
Aug 23 Japan declares war on Germany during WWI.
Aug 11 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
Aug 03 Australian government offers to place the vessels of the Royal Australian Navy under control of the British Admiralty and to raise a force of 20,000 troops in event of war
Aug 04 Britain declares war on Germany
Aug 13 Establishment of the Australian Red Cross to raise funds to purchase comfort supplies for Australian service personnel overseas
Aug 15 Panama Canal opens (under cost)
Aug 04 Germany declares war on Belgium
Aug 29 Arizonan is first vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal

