Today in History for March 1914
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 14 of 14
1st - Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1st - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
7th - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
9th - Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
9th - US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
10th - Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
14th - Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
18th - White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China
19th - Stanley Cup: Tor Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Vict Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
20th - 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
21st - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
21st - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
22nd - World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
27th - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 57 of 57
1st - Archibald J Gumede, S Afr ANC member/chairman (UDF)
1st - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
1st - Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
3rd - Martin Ritt, actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game)
4th - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
4th - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
4th - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
5th - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
6th - Kirill P Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)
7th - Morton DaCosta, Phila, director (Island of Love, Music Man)
8th - Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
8th - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
9th - Fred Clark, Lincoln Calif, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
10th - Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ)
12th - Jan Kapr, composer
13th - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
13th - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer
13th - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
13th - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
14th - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier
14th - Jiri Reinberger, composer
14th - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
14th - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
14th - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
15th - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
17th - Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
18th - Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
18th - James Pack, naval officer museum curator
19th - J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (1935)
19th - Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
19th - Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
20th - Sviatosiav Richter, Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
20th - Wendell Corey, Dracut Mass, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)
20th - William Baddeley, rector (St Jame's Piccadilly)
21st - Herman Siles Zuazo, politician
21st - Paul Tortelier, composer
22nd - Cec Burke, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner v Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
22nd - Lord Stokes
22nd - Masao Maruyama, social scientist
23rd - Robert Gross, composer
24th - Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
25th - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator
25th - Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
26th - Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
26th - William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
26th - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
27th - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
27th - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
27th - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
28th - Bohumil Hrabal, writer
28th - Edmund Sixtus Muskie, (Sen-D-Me)/US Sec of State (1980)
28th - Frank Lovejoy, Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw)
28th - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
28th - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
29th - Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author (about secret service)
30th - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues musician (Down & Out Blues)
31st - Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 12 of 12
1st - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
1st - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
12th - George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
16th - Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
16th - John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies
16th - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
19th - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
23rd - Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62
23rd - Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
25th - Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies
28th - Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
31st - Ch Morgenstern, writer, dies at 42
