1914

     

Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursay (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Trivia about 1914

  • For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year
  • Year of the fateful headline seen here
  • Benedict XV becomes Pope; Franz Ferdinand is assassinated; Ralph Ellison becomes visible man
  • The year Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, leading to World War I
  • Russia, France & Germany entered WWI in August of this year
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the New York Stock Exchange.) When world events disrupt markets, even the bustling New York Stock Exchange can undergo an emergency closure; the longest such shutdown began July 31st of this year, with war in Europe just days away
  • Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August" has also been published as "August" this fateful year
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand just has to have the top down & gets his way for the last time

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