What Happened in March 1914

Historical Events

  • Mar 1 Dutch Minister of War Hendrikus Colijn named director of British Petroleum
  • Mar 1 The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • Mar 7 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
  • Mar 9 Hendrikus Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co

Cubanization of Mexico

Mar 9 US Senator Albert B. Fall demands the "Cubanization of Mexico"

  • Mar 10 Suffragettes in London damage Rokeby's painting Venus of Velasquez

The Dead

Mar 11 Rupert Brooke's poems "The Dead" and "The Soldier" are published in The Times Literary Supplement

  • Mar 14 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
  • Mar 18 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen, China
  • Mar 19 Stanley Cup, Arena Gardens, Toronto ON: Toronto HC (NHA) defeat Victoria Aristocrats (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-0 series sweep; final series of the "challenge" era
  • Mar 20 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
  • Mar 21 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
  • Mar 21 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
  • Mar 27 76th Grand National: Bill Smith aboard Sunloch wins by 8 lengths from Trianon III
  • Mar 27 First successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels
1914 History

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 1 Archie Gumede, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (ANC), born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 1998)
  • Mar 1 Harry Caray, American Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster (Chicago Cubs), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1998)
  • Mar 1 Ralph Ellison, American writer (Invisible Man; Shadow and Cast: Juneteenth), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1994)
  • Mar 3 Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger's Wife, End of the Game), born in New York City (d. 1990)
  • Mar 4 Gino Colaussi, Italian soccer striker (26 caps; Triestina, Juventus, Vicenza, Padova), born in Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy (d. 1991)
  • Mar 4 Robert R. Wilson, American physicist (The Manhattan Project), sculptor and architect, born in Frontier, Wyoming (d. 2000)
  • Mar 4 Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (worked for Walt Disney), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2002)
  • Mar 5 Joan Sterndale-Bennett, British actress (Brighton Rock, Those Fantastic Flying Fools), born in London, England (d. 1996)
  • Mar 5 Philip Farkas, American classical horn player (Chicago Symphony) and educator (University of Indiana), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1992)
  • Mar 5 Ursula Reit [Reith], German actress (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), born in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (d. 1998)
  • Mar 6 Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, 1943-56; Moscow Philharmonic, 1960-75; Concertgebouw, 1978-81), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1981)
  • Mar 7 Morton DaCosta, American film and theatre director (Island of Love; The Music Man), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
  • Mar 8 Jacob B. Bakema, Dutch modernist architect (St Louis Missouri), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1981)
  • Mar 8 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist, born in Minsk, Russian Empire (d. 1987)
  • Mar 9 Paul Winter, American classical and session violinist (NBC Orchestra, 1937-58), born in New York City (d. 1992)
  • Mar 10 Chandler Harper, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1950), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 2004)
  • Mar 12 Jan Kapr, Czech composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1988)
  • Mar 13 Bob Haggart, American dixieland, swing jazz, and session double bass player, and composer ("What's New?"), born in New York City (d. 1998)
  • Mar 13 Carl-Olof Anderberg, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1972)
  • Mar 13 Edward O'Hare, American naval aviator of the U.S. Navy, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1943)
  • Mar 13 Tessie O'Shea, Welsh stage and screen entertainer, born in Cardiff (d. 1995)
  • Mar 13 W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (Who Has Seen the Wind?), born in Weyburn, Canada (d. 1998)
  • Mar 14 Bill Owen [William Owen Rowbotham], British actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Not So Dusty), born in Acton, Middlesex, England (d. 1999)
  • Mar 14 Henry Ralph Carr, English WWII soldier (A Sapper's War) (d. 1996)
  • Mar 14 Lee Hays, American folk singer (The Weavers), songwriter ("Wasn't That a Time?"; "If I Had a Hammer"; "Kisses Sweeter than Wine"), and civil rights activist, born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1981)
  • Mar 14 Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
  • Mar 15 Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
  • Mar 15 Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (Car 54), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1982)

Sammy Baugh (1914-2008)

Mar 17 American College/Pro Football quarterback (TCU; NFL C'ship 1937, 42; 4 × First-team All-Pro; 6 × Pro Bowl; 4 × NFL passing yards leader; Washington Redskins), born in Temple, Texas

  • Mar 18 César Guerra-Peixe, Brazilian violinist and composer (Brasilia Symphony), born in Petrópolis, Brazil (d. 1993)
  • Mar 18 James Pack, British naval officer and museum curator (Portsmouth), born in Malta (d. 1995)
  • Mar 19 Fred Clark, American actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard), born in Lincoln, California (d. 1968)
  • Mar 19 James "Buster" Bennett, American blues saxophonist and blues shouter, born in Pensacola, Florida (d. 1980)
  • Mar 19 Jay Berwanger, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (1st Heisman Trophy winner 1935, Chicago), born in Dubuque, Iowa (d. 2002)

Jiang Qing (1914-1991)

Mar 19 Chinese communist and wife of Mao Zedong, born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China

  • Mar 19 Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
  • Mar 20 Wendell Corey, American actor (Rear Window, 11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), born in Dracut, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
  • Mar 20 William Baddeley, English church minister (restored St James's Piccadilly, Bishop of Brisbane), born in London, England (d. 1998)
  • Mar 21 Hernán Siles Zuazo, Bolivian politician (President of Bolivia 1956-60, 1982-85), born in La Paz, Bolivia (d. 1996)
  • Mar 21 Paul Tortelier, French concert cellist, composer, and teacher, born in Paris (d. 1990)
  • Mar 22 Lord Stokes [Donald Stokes], English industrialist (British Leyland), born in Plymouth, England (d. 2008)
  • Mar 22 Masao Maruyama, Japanese social scientist, born in Osaka, Japan (d. 1996)
  • Mar 23 Robert Arthur Gross, American violinist, composer (The Bald Soprano), and pedagogue, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1983)
  • Mar 25 Marthe Robert, French essayist and translator who influenced Sigmund Freud, born in Paris, France (d. 1996)
  • Mar 25 Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (Green Revolution - Nobel Peace Prize 1970), born in Cresco, Iowa (d. 2009)
  • Mar 26 Ian McGeoch, Scottish Vice-Admiral with Royal Navy (submarine HMS Splendid WWII), born in Helensburgh, Scotland (d. 2007)
  • Mar 26 Ray Robinson, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test; NSW, South Australia, Otago), born in Stockton, Australia (d. 1965)
  • Mar 26 Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematics educator (Kumon Institute of Education,), born in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan (d. 1995)

William Westmoreland (1914-2005)

Mar 26 American general and commander of American forces in the Vietnam War between 1964-68, born in Saxon, South Carolina

  • Mar 27 Budd Schulberg, American novelist and screenwriter (On the Waterfront), born in New York City (d. 2009)
  • Mar 27 Richard Denning [Louis Denninger Jr.], American actor (An Affair to Remember, The Black Scorpion), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1998)
  • Mar 27 Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade; 5 Star Jubilee), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1990)
  • Mar 28 Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (Closely Observed Trains), born in Brno, Austria-Hungary (d. 1997)
  • Mar 28 Dick Norris, Australian entomologist, born in Geraldton, Western Australia (d. 2003)
  • Mar 28 Edmund Muskie, American politician (Sen-D-Me) and US Secretary of State (1980-81), born in Rumford, Maine (d. 1996)
  • Mar 28 Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (Escape to Athena), born in New York (d. 2000)
  • Mar 29 Chapman Pincher, British journalist and author (about secret service), born in Ambala, Punjab, India (d. 2014)
  • Mar 30 Charlotte Henry, American actress (Alice in Wonderland; Babes In Toyland; Jungle Menace), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1980)
  • Mar 30 Sonny Boy Williamson I [John Lee], American blues musician ("Down & Out Blues"), born in Madison County, Tennessee (d. 1948)
  • Mar 31 Octavio Paz, Mexican poet (Salamandra; Topoemas), writer and diplomat who won the 1990 Nobel Prize laureate, born in Mexico City (d. 1998)
Born in 1914

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 1 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, dies at 63
  • Mar 1 Tor Aulin, Swedish composer, dies at 47

George Westinghouse (1846-1914)

Mar 12 American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system) who was a pioneer of the electrical industry (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67 [1]

  • Mar 16 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize, dies at 70
  • Mar 16 Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
  • Mar 16 John Murray, Canadian-British oceanographer, marine biologist (Challenger Expedition, 1872-76), and writer (The Depths of the Ocean), dies in a car wreck at 73
  • Mar 19 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
  • Mar 23 Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
  • Mar 23 Teunis Stoel, Dutch actor and director (Small Theater), dies at 62

Frederic Mistral (1830-1914)

Mar 25 French Provencal poet (Nobel 1904), dies at 83

  • Mar 28 Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
  • Mar 31 Christian Morgenstern, German poet (Ich und die Welt), dies at 42