Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

* 1914 – Armen Alchian, American economist

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1845 – Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St. Elisabeth ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Heidi Kabel, German actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia.

* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor ( d. 1963 )

* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor ( d. 1970 )

* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )

* 1995 – H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.

* 1832 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer ( d. 1914 )

* 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director ( b. 1914 )

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

The slab on top carries the inscription (" Here lies a French soldier who died for the fatherland 1914 – 1918 ").

Category: Recipients of the Croix de guerre 1914 – 1918 ( France )

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

After the carnage of 1914 – 1918 the democratic reform of the Representation of the People Act 1918 instantly tripled the number of people allowed to vote in Britain from 7 to 21 million.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

In September 1914 cavalry comprised 9. 28 % of the total manpower of the British Expeditionary Force in France — by July 1918 this proportion had fallen to 1. 65 %.

Category: Recipients of the Croix de guerre 1914 – 1918 ( France )

The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

He invented the regenerative circuit while he was an undergraduate and patented it in 1914, followed by the super-regenerative circuit in 1922, and the superheterodyne receiver in 1918.

But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries.

* 1918 – SS Tuscania ( 1914 ) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland ; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

The Finnish Civil War (; ) was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) in Europe.

Although actual combat didn't spread to Finland until 1918, the war between Germany and Russia had a major impact on the Finns from its beginning in 1914.

Although between 1914 and 1918 World War I was raging in Europe, its effects were little felt in Malaya, apart from the 1915 Singapore Mutiny.

" Bernard Shaw 1914 – 1918: Journey to Heartbreak ".

Gavrilo Princip ( Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, ; 28 April 1918 ) was the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

Over 60 million European soldiers were mobilised from 1914 – 1918.

Germany led the Central Powers in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) against France, Great Britain, Russia and ( by 1917 ) the United States.

The stalemate lasted from 1914 until early 1918, with ferocious battles that moved forces a few hundred yards at best along a line that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border.

The reign of Alfonso XIII ( 1886 – 1931 ) saw the Spanish-American War of 1898, culminating in the loss of the Philippines plus Spain's last colonies in the Americas, Cuba and Puerto Rico ; the " Great War " in Europe ( now known as World War I, 1914 – 1918 ), although Spain maintained neutrality throughout the conflict ; the influenza pandemic nicknamed the Spanish Flu ( 1918 – 1919 ); and the Rif War in Morocco ( 1920 – 1926 ).

Total deaths from 1914 to 1918, military and civilian, within the 1919 – 1939 borders, were estimated at 1, 128, 000.