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

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

* 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.

The cliff-hanger migrated to film and is best known from the popular silent film series The Perils of Pauline ( 1914 ), shown in weekly installments and featuring Pearl White as the title character, a perpetual damsel in distress who was menaced by assorted villains, with each installment ending with her placed in a situation that looked sure to result in her imminent death – to escape at the beginning of the next installment only to get into fresh danger at its end.

These scenes are parodies of similar scenes in movie serials, such as The Perils of Pauline ( 1914 ) starring actress Pearl White.

The damsel in distress theme was also used in The Perils of Pauline ( 1914 ) motion picture serial, which found Pearl White in mortal danger on a weekly basis.

During World War I ( against threat of Communism from 1914 to 1920 ) and World War II ( perceived threat by Japanese Canadians after Pearl Harbor from 1942 to 1945 ) the Act was enacted for the duration of both of the two world wars.

One of the films most often associated with the stereotype of the damsel in distress, The Perils of Pauline ( 1914 ), in fact provides at least a partial counterexample, in that Pauline, as played by Pearl White, is a strong character who decides against early marriage in favour of seeking adventure and becoming an author.

Wilma Pearl Mankiller was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the sixth of eleven children, to Charley Mankiller ( November 15, 1914 – February 20, 1971 ) and Clara Irene Sitton ( born September 18, 1921 ).

The book " The Birth of Ballito Pearl of Natal North Coast ", 2005 by Jack Nash ( 1914 -), gives a personal history from the early beginning of Ballito through to 1986 when he left the area and includes a history of some of the early pioneers and characters of the town.

The Battery Hawkins built in 1914 to protect Pearl Harbor was named for him.

By 1914 however, with most of its leaders in jail or dead from drug overdoses, the gang had fallen apart as the Marginals, under Tanner Smith, drove what was left of the gang from their territory where the Marginals, after defeating the Pearl Buttons, would control for the next decade.

The United States attacked the British forts at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in 1914 and held these islands subsequently.

In 1914, Moreno began co-starring in a series of highly successful serials opposite the enormously publicly popular silent film actress Pearl White.

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

Half of the German divisions available in 1940 were combat ready, often being more poorly equipped than the British and French Armies, as well as the German Army of 1914.

Image: French heavy cavalry Paris August 1914. jpg | French cuirassiers, wearing breastplates and helmets, parade through Paris on the way to battle, August 1914.

The major European empires consisted of the following colonies at the start of World War I ( former colonies of the Spanish Empire became independent before 1914 and are not listed ; former colonies of other European empires that previously became independent, such as the former French colony Haiti, are not listed ):

* 1980 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer ( b. 1914 )

French dragoons escorting German prisoners, after the First Battle of the Marne ( 1914 ).

In 1914 there were still dragoon regiments in the British, French, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Peruvian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Spanish armies.

French aircraft designer Raymond Saulnier patented a practical device in April 1914, but trials were unsuccessful because of the propensity of the machine gun employed to hang fire due to unreliable ammunition.

In December 1914, French aviator Roland Garros asked Saulnier to install his synchronization gear on Garros ' Morane-Saulnier Type L. Unfortunately the gas-operated Hotchkiss machine gun he was provided had an erratic rate of fire and it was impossible to synchronize it with a spinning propeller.

* 1914 – Jacques Dufilho, French comedian ( d. 2005 )

* 1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect ( d. 1914 )

German sociologist Johann Plenge spoke of the rise of a " National Socialism " in Germany within what he termed the " ideas of 1914 " that were a declaration of war against the " ideas of 1789 " ( the French Revolution ).

* 1841 – Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician ( d. 1914 )

The " long nineteenth century ", from 1789 to 1914 sees the drastic social, political and economic changes initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and following the reorganisation of the political map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the rise of Nationalism, the rise of the Russian Empire and the peak of the British Empire, paralleled by the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

The seemingly timeless world of the French peasantry swiftly changed from 1870 to 1914.

* 1914 – Luc-Marie Bayle, French naval officer and artist ( d. 2000 )

* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer ( d. 1982 )

* 1914 – Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist ( d. 1998 )

A detachment of French infantry with 2 Saint-Etienne Model 1907 machine guns ( c. 1914 )

* 1882 – Charles de Vendeville, French swimmer ( d. 1914 )