1914 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1911 1912 1913 – 1914 – 1915 1916 1917

1914 (MCMXVI) was a common year that started on a Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the year that saw the start of what became known as World War I.

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Events
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Nobel Prizes
Births
Deaths
Books
Images for kids
See also

Events

June 28 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Countess Sophie were assassinated by Black Hand in Sarajevo. This led to World War I.
August 2 – According to the NSDAP 25 points manifesto, anyone who was not German-race who did not live in Germany before this date had to leave the country.
August 31 – Saint Petersburg, Russia is renamed Petrograd by Nicholas II.

Date unknown

Australian supermarket chain Coles Supermarkets was founded.
The Iglesia ni Cristo ("Church of Christ") was built in the Philippines.
The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main opened
Construction of the Panama Canal is finished.
Yuma, Arizona became a city

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Robert Bárány, Austrian doctor.

Births

February 5 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (d. 1999)
March 31 – Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet and diplomat (d, 1998)
April 2 – Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
May 13 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
May 29 – Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa climber (d. 1986)
September 24 – John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
October 16 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
October 27- Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
November 25 – Joe DiMaggio, American MLB baseball player (d. 1999)
December 14 – Karl Carstens, 5th President of West Germany (d. 1992)
December 20 - Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American politician (d. 2013)
December 30 – Igor Diakonov, Russian (Soviet) historian and linguist (d. 1999)
Nancy Drew, Fictional character

Deaths

June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)
June 28 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1863), and his wife Countess Sophie
August 6 – Ellen Louise Wilson, American First Lady, wife of Woodrow Wilson. (b. 1860)

Books

Dubliners – James Joyce

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1914 para niños

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