What Happened in April 1914

Historical Events

US Refuses to Recognize Huerta

Apr 9 US President Woodrow Wilson refuses to recognize Victoriano Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that the dictator has not been elected by the people

Dictator and President of Mexico Victoriano Huerta

Huerta Breaks with US

Apr 11 Mexican President Victoriano Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US

Apr 13 1st Federal League Game: Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo Blues 3-2
Apr 14 Dr. Harry Plotz isolates the bacteria that causes Typhus Fever at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City

Non Skid Tires

Apr 14 US head of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Stacy G. Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern

Apr 20 18th Boston Marathon won by Canadian James Duffy in 2:25:01.2
Apr 20 Ludlow Massacre: Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) security team and Colorado National Guard soldiers kill 21 workers, women and children during mine strike in Ludlow, Colorado
Apr 20 US President W Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asks a joint session of Congress to approve armed force if necessary; Congress approves
Apr 21 US marines occupy Vera Cruz, a major Mexican port; they will stay for 6 months

Ruth's 1st Professional Game

Apr 22 Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win

Apr 23 MLB Chicago Federals host the Kansas City Packers in the 1st game played at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field)
Apr 24 A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland
Apr 25 US President Woodrow Wilson is persuaded by Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to accept mediation in the conflict with Mexico
Apr 27 Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
Apr 28 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia

Events in 1914

Famous Birthdays

Apr 1 Carla van Neste, Belgian classical violinist (Trio Reine Elisabeth), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1992)
Apr 1 Lor Tok [Sawong Supsamruay], Thai comedian and actor (Ngern, Ngern, Ngern), born in Bangkok Yai, Thailand (d. 2002)

Alec Guinness (1914-2000)

Apr 2 British actor (The Ladykillers, The Bridge on the River Kwai), born in London, England

Apr 3 George Sopkin, American cellist (Fine Arts Quartet, 1941-79), and teacher, born in Chicago, Ilinois (d. 2008)
Apr 3 Katherine Stammers Menzies, English doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935), born in St Albans, England (d. 2005)
Apr 4 Gustave Camus, Belgian painter, born in Châtelet, Belgium (d. 1984)
Apr 4 John Beith, British diplomat, ambassador to Israel and Belgium (d. 2000)
Apr 4 Marguerite Duras, French novelist and playwright (Sea Wall), born in Saigon, French IndoChina (d. 1996)
Apr 8 John Cameron, Jamaican cricketer (brother of Jimmy WI v-capt 1939 England tour), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2000)
Apr 8 María Félix, Mexican actress (Doña Bárbara), born in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico (d. 2002)
Apr 10 Foffie Williams, West Indian cricket all-rounder (4 Tests; 9 wickets, 1 x 50; Barbados), born in Bank Hall, St Michael, Barbados (d. 1997)
Apr 10 Jack Badcock, Australian cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's), born in Exton, Tasmania (d. 1982)
Apr 11 Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian film animator and director, born in Stirling, Scotland (d. 1987)
Apr 12 Armen Alchian, American economist and professor (University of California), born in Fresno, California (d. 2013)
Apr 14 Jiri Reinberger, Czech organist and composer, born in Brno, Austria-Hungary (d. 1977)
Apr 15 John Gregory, British ballet dancer (Harlequin Ballet Company, 1959-69), and writer, born in Norwich, England (d. 1996) [1]
Apr 16 John Hodiak, American actor (Battleground, A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1955)
Apr 17 George Davis, American art director (20th Century Fox), born in Kokomo, Indiana (d. 1984)
Apr 18 C. S. Nayudu, Indian cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie), born in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India (d. 2002)
Apr 18 Henk [Hendrik Johannes] Lankhorst, Dutch politician (PSP), born in Amsterdam (d. 1976)
Apr 19 Andrew Wilkinson, British pediatrician and the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK, born in Taunton, England (d. 1995)
Apr 20 Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (101 Dalmatians, Cinderella), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 1999)
Apr 21 Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
Apr 22 C. H. Sisson, British author (Christopher Homm), born in Bristol, England (d. 2003)
Apr 22 Hans Baumann, German nationalist writer, born in Amberg, Bavaria (d. 1988)
Apr 22 Jan de Hartog, Dutch-English writer (Holland's Glory), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 2002)
Apr 22 Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace, born in Vogelthal, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1944)
Apr 23 Andrew Martin, British Army Officer (Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 1965 to 1989) (d. 1993)
Apr 23 John Hubbard, American actor (Don't Call Me Charlie, The Tall T, One Million B.C.), born in East Chicago, Indiana (d. 1988)
Apr 23 Mitsu Suzuki, Japanese-American Zen teacher (San Francisco Zen Center, wife of Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki) (d. 2016)
Apr 24 Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips) and humorist, born in Roseland, Louisiana (d. 2001)
Apr 24 Phil Watson, Canadian NHL right wing (Stanley Cup 1940 [NYR], 1944 [Montreal Canadiens]) and coach (NY Rangers), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1991)
Apr 24 Ruth White, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird, Up the Down Staircase), born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey (d. 1969)
Apr 25 Claude Mauriac, French writer (Le Temps immobile), born in Paris (d. 1996)
Apr 25 Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela (1953-58), born in Michelena, Venezuela (d. 2001)
Apr 25 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), born in Bloomington, Indiana (d. 1948)
Apr 26 Bernard Malamud, American novelist (The Fixer, The Natural, Pulitzer 1967), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1986)
Apr 26 Charlie Chester, English comedian (Never Say Die), born in Eastbourne, Sussex (d. 1997)
Apr 26 H. L. Gold, American sci-fi writer and editor, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1996)
Apr 26 James Rouse, American builder (founder of The Rouse Company), born in Easton, Maryland (d. 1996)
Apr 26 Wilfrid Howard Mellers, English musicologist and composer (François Couperin and the French Classical Tradition), born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (d. 2008)
Apr 27 Albert Soboult, French historian, born in Ammi Moussa, French Algeria (d. 1982)
Apr 27 Lou Crosby, American actor, and radio and TV announcer (Lum and Abner; The Lawrence Welk Show), born in Lawton, Oklahoma (d. 1984)
Apr 29 Deryck Guyler, British actor (Please Sir!, Sykes), born in Wallasey, Cheshire (d. 1999)
Apr 29 Ewan Roberts, Scottish actor (The Day of the Triffids, Five to One), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1983)
Apr 30 Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer and songwriter, born in Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil (d. 2008)
Apr 30 Sid Weiss, American jazz bassist, born in Schenectady, New York (d. 1994)

Born in 1914

Famous Weddings

Ezra Pound

Apr 20 Poet and critic Ezra Pound (28) weds Dorothy Shakespear

Famous Deaths

Apr 1 Rube Waddell, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Triple Crown, AL wins leader 1905; ERA leader 1900, 05; strikeout leader 1902–07; Philadelphia A's), dies from tuberculosis at 37
Apr 2 Paul von Heyse, German writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1910), dies at 84
Apr 9 Eben Sumner Draper, American businessman and politician (44th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 55
Apr 12 Josef Nešvera, Czech composer, dies at 71
Apr 14 Hubert Bland, English author and socialist (co-founder of the Fabian Society), dies of a heart attack at 59
Apr 14 Paul Ehrenreich, German ethnologist and mythologist, dies at 58
Apr 16 George William Hill, American astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit) and considered to be the greatest master of celestial mechanics of his time, dies at 76
Apr 16 S. R. Crockett, Scottish novelist (The Stickit Minister), dies at 54
Apr 19 Charles Peirce, American scientist and philosopher known as "the father of pragmatism", dies at 74

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