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.

* 1914 – Norman Panama, American screenwriter ( d. 2003 )

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.

The 1914 Bryan-Chamorro Treaty granted perpetual canal rights to the U. S. in Nicaragua and was signed ten days before the U. S .- operated Panama Canal opened for use, thus preventing anyone from building a competing canal in Nicaragua without U. S. permission.

Since the Panama Canal opened in 1914, the Nicaragua route has been reconsidered.

The Panama Canal was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914 ; the existing 83-kilometer ( 50-mi.

The Panama Canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1, 000 ships when it opened in 1914, to 14, 702 vessels in 2008, the latter measuring a total of 309. 6 million Panama Canal / Universal Measurement System ( PC / UMS ) tons.

The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870 – 1914 ( 1977 ).

* The Panama Canal is completed in 1914.

" Powell added: " The Panama Canal from 1914 onwards could never quite exorcise the spectre ....

The Panama Canal ( completed 1913 – 1914 ) used extensive telemetry systems to monitor locks and water levels.

With the opening of the Panama canal in 1914, the importance of the Southern cone economies declined, as investors turned their attention to Asia.

The golden age of Valparaíso ’ s commerce ended after the opening of the Panama Canal ( 1914 ).

* Panama Canal, completed under supervision of Army Engineer officers, 1914

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, such as the Suez Canal in 1869, the Kiel Canal in 1897, and the Panama Canal in 1914.

Norman Panama ( April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003 ) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois.

Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal to traffic on 15 August 1914, a controversy with Great Britain respecting the interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty arose.

Wilson signed these revisions to the Panama Canal Act on 15 June 1914.

The Panama Canal opened in 1914.

During the fall of 1914, HMCS Rainbow patrolled the west coast of North America, as far south as Panama, although these patrols became less important following the elimination of the German naval threat in the Pacific with the December 1914 defeat of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee's German East Asiatic Squadron off the Falkland Islands.

From the late 18th century to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, thousands of trans-oceanic voyages stopped by Punta Arenas as the most convenient strait between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Until the Panama Canal opened in 1914, the Strait of Magellan was the main route for steam ships traveling from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870 – 1914.