Nov 22 Lew Hays (founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters)

Nov 05 Britain annexes Cyprus

Nov 01 The First Division of the AIF sails from Albany, Western Australia, for Egypt

Nov 09 HMAS Sydney sinks the German cruiser, Emden, at the Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean

Sep 05 Battle of Marne (WW I) begins

Sep 15 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I

Sep 14 HMA Submarine AE1 lost off New Guinea

Sep 08 The birth of Robert Wise, American film director

Sep 28 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

Sep 22 German U-Boat, the U-9, sunk three British cruisers in the North Sea

Sep 01 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

Sep 05 HMS Pathfinder, a British Light cruiser torpedoed and sunk out from the Firth of Forth by German submarine U21.

Sep 11 Two Australian battalions land near Rabaul and occupy the German colony on New Britain, off north-eastern New Guinea during WWI.

Sep 07 New York Post Office Building opens to the public

Sep 06 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris

Sep 26 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce

Sep 18 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I

Sep 10 The birth of Robert Wise, American director

Sep 08 SS Oceanic,a White Star Liner, built in 1899. She was the first ship to exceed the length of the Great Eastern, at 704 ft overall. After being requistioned on the outbreak of the First World War as an armed merchant cruiser, she was attached to the 10th cruiser squadron of the Royal Navy. On the 8th September, in thick fog, she ran aground on rocks on Foula Island, Shetlands where she became a total loss and was eventually broken up. She had a crew of 400 on board at the time of her accident, all of whom were resued by the Trawler Glenogil.

Jun 06 The first air flight out of the sight of land (Scotland to Norway)

Jun 24 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #789 Lena

Jun 27 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia

Jun 28 Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist,Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1

Jun 30 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa

Jun 07 The first vessel passes through the locks at the Panama Canal.

Jun 29 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani

Jun 20 German warship Bismark launched

Dec 15 After being closed for over four months, the NYSE got back into the swing of things on this day in 1914, albeit with a tight set of trading restrictions designed to prevent fiscal disaster

Dec 21 First feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin)

Dec 15 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow

Dec 17 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities

Dec 25 SS Therese Heymann. This Ropner ship left the Tyne and was posted missing thereafter. No information about her fate is known but she may have been mined off Filey, Yorkshire as was the fate of many other vessels.

Dec 11 Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed

Dec 25 Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the German troops along the Eastern and Western fronts cease firing their guns and artillery, and start singing Christmas carols and playing brass musical instruments; at first light, many German soldiers emerge from their trenches and cross No Man's Land, calling out Merry Christmas in English and French; at first the Allied soldiers suspect a trick, but soon they are shaking hands with the Boche; swapping cigarettes and plum pudding, and even playing soccer; the Christmas Truce lasts a few days, then it is back to the bloody conflict of World War I; there are no more Christmas Truces.

Aug 17 The Belgian government moves its offices from Brussels to Antwerp.

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