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History on the year of 1914

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01 Jan 1914 WW2 Takeo Yoshikawa was born. 
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02 Jan 1914 WW2 Noor Inayat Khan was born in Moscow, Russia. 
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18 Jan 1914 WW2 Adolf Hitler, who had registered as a stateless person in order to aviod military service in Austria-Hungary, was arrested by a München (Munich) police official and taken to the Austrian Consulate, from where he was deported to Salzburg in Austria to enter the army. 
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05 Feb 1914 WW2 Upon examination in Salzburg, Austria, Adolf Hitler was rejected by the Austro-Hungarian Army; army doctors deemed him unfit for service even for auxiliary units. 
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11 Feb 1914 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was made the naval attaché to the United States. 
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12 Feb 1914 WW2 Settsu departed Koniya harbor, island of Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 
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14 Feb 1914 WW2 Nancy Harkness Love was born. 
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14 Feb 1914 RELIGIOUS Birth of Ira F. Stanphill, Assemblies of God clergyman and song evangelist. He is best known today for the hymn, "Room at the Cross," which he penned in 1946.
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18 Feb 1914 WW2 Settsu arrived at Chinhae, Korea. 
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01 Mar 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel was posted to the 4th Battery of the 49th Artillery Regiment of the Wüttemberg Army. 
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14 Mar 1914 WW2 The Japanese-controlled Ryojun Naval District (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China was downgraded to a third echelon military port. 
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16 Mar 1914 WW2 The keel of battleship Arizona was laid down at Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, United States. 
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18 Mar 1914 WW2 Texas was commissioned into service. 
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20 Mar 1914 WW2 The Curragh mutiny took place when the commanding officer and 56 officers of the British 3rd Cavalry Brigade, stationed at the Curragh near Dublin, Ireland, opted for dismissal from the British Army rather than being forced to coerce the Ulster Protestants into accepting Irish Home Rule. The incident might partially explain why the government was not prepared to force Ulster to accept home rule. The secretary for war, J. E. B. Seely (later 1st Baron Mottistone, 1868-1947), and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir John French, indicated that the officers should not be required to serve against the north; the Cabinet disagreed and Seely and French resigned their offices. 
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01 Apr 1914 WW2 Vice Admiral Reijiro Kawashima succeeded Vice Admiral Hajime Sakamoto as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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02 Apr 1914 WW2 Alec Guinness de Cuffe was born in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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12 Apr 1914 RELIGIOUS An 11-day constitutional convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas, ended. During its sessions, the Assemblies of God denomination was founded.
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15 Apr 1914 WW2 New York was commissioned into service. 
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17 Apr 1914 WW2 Lieutenant General Gencho Furumi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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20 Apr 1914 WW2 Max Wünsche was born. 
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20 Apr 1914 WW2 US Naval Aviation's first combat action began when the base detachment, including three aircraft and three pilots under Lieutenant J. H. Towers, left Pensacola, Florida, United States in the battleship USS Mississippi to assist forces at Vera Cruz, Mexico, where they flew observation and photographic sorties. 
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01 May 1914 WW2 Douglas MacArthur arrived at Veracruz, Mexico as a member of the headquarters staff. 
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08 May 1914 WW2 Rear Admiral Masaki Nakamura was named the chief of staff of Vice Admiral Reijiro Kawashima (Ryojun Military Port, northeastern China). 
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27 May 1914 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was assigned to battlecruiser Kongo. 
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12 Jun 1914 RELIGIOUS The first edition of A.T. Robertson's monumental 'Grammar of the Greek New Testament' was released. Its 1400+ pages make it the largest systematic analysis of the original New Testament language ever published.
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20 Jun 1914 WW2 Hubert Lanz joined the German Army. 
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28 Jun 1914 WW2 The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. 
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28 Jun 1914 RELIGIOUS Birth of Lester Roloff, American evangelist. In his later years he founded the 'City of Refuge,' a work specializing in reforming children who came from broken homes.
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01 Jul 1914 WW2 The British Royal Naval Air Service was established. 
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06 Jul 1914 WW2 William Dimoline was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and was assigned to 5th Battalion of King's Regiment (Liverpool). 
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17 Jul 1914 WW2 USS Idaho arrived at Villefranche-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. 
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23 Jul 1914 WW2 Austria delivered an ultimatum to Serbia which the Serbian government, desperate for peace, accepted. 
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26 Jul 1914 WW2 Russia announced that she would pass to the "Period Preparatory to War." This unfortunately-phrased term, which in fact meant only that the army would prepare to mobilize rather than actually do so, laid itself wide open to misinterpretation. 
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26 Jul 1914 WW2 France canceled all military leave. 
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27 Jul 1914 WW2 The French Government ordered the embarkation of the 100,000-strong North African Garrison. 
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28 Jul 1914 WW2 Franz Josef declared war on Serbia. 
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29 Jul 1914 WW2 Two Austrian monitors steamed down stream from the Austrian frontier and opened fire on Belgrade. Serbian guns immediately returned fire and with the brief demonstration completed the Austrian monitors withdrew. 
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29 Jul 1914 WW2 The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei D. Sazonov received a telegram from the German Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg. It implied that "further progress of Russian mobilization measures" would compel Germany also to mobilize. 
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30 Jul 1914 WW2 Russia, feeling that she had let Serbia down in the Bosnian crisis of 1908, began to mobilize. 
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30 Jul 1914 WW2 The French Covering Force (that part of the army kept on a permanent war footing) was ordered to deploy along the Franco-German frontier, but 10 kilometers short of it to avoid any incidents. 
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30 Jul 1914 WW2 USS Idaho was transferred to the Greek Navy and was renamed Lemnos. 
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31 Jul 1914 WW2 Germany began to mobilize. 
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31 Jul 1914 WW2 General Joffe, the French Chief of the General Staff, warned the cabinet that a delay in calling out the reservists could result in an initial abandonment of French territory. 
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01 Aug 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel was posted to the 124th Infantry Regiment of the Wüttemberg Army. 
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01 Aug 1914 WW2 Germany declared war on Russia while its troops violated the neutrality of Luxembourg. 
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02 Aug 1914 WW2 German troops crossed the frontier into France. 
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02 Aug 1914 WW2 In France, the Law of Siege gave the army the power to requisition goods, to control the press, and to apply military law to civilians. It even subordinated the police to military control. 
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03 Aug 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel, as a member of the 124th Infantry Regiment of the Wüttemberg Army, departed Germany for the Western Front. 
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03 Aug 1914 WW2 Germany declared war on France. 
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04 Aug 1914 WW2 The United Kingdom declared war on Germany. 
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05 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Liege
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05 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Frontiers
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07 Aug 1914 WW2 Rear Admiral Shigeushi Nakagawa was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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07 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Mulhouse
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08 Aug 1914 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Hauptmann. 
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08 Aug 1914 WW2 Despite being outgunned Captain Howard Kelly on the British light cruiser HMS Gloucester opened fire on the German cruiser Breslau in order to delay the flight of the battlecruiser Goebern (Rear Admiral W. Souchon) to enable the pursuing British battlecruisers, under the flag of Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne, to catch up with their prey. The engagement had to be called off when the Gloucester ran short of coal. 
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08 Aug 1914 WW2 The Defence of the Realm Act, although primarily designed to protect Britain's Ports and Railways from sabotage or espionage, permitted the trial of Civilians by court martial. 
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11 Aug 1914 RELIGIOUS Birth of Lee Shelley, missions pioneer. In 1957 he founded Christians in Action Missions in Huntington Park, California an interdenominational agency working overseas in evangelism, church planting and missionary training.
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12 Aug 1914 WW2 The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) consisting of four Infantry Divisions and a Cavalry Division under the command of Sir John French began to cross the English Channel into France. 
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12 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Haelen
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13 Aug 1914 WW2 British Lieutenant H. D. Harvey-Kelly flew a No. 2 Squadron B.E.2a aircraft from Dover, England, United Kingdom to Amiens, France in 1 hour 55 minutes. This was the first RFC aircraft to arrive in France. 
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14 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Invasion of Lorraine
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17 Aug 1914 WW2 The Germans set up a Committee for the liberation of Russian Jews. 
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17 Aug 1914 WW2 Lieutenant-General Sir James Grierson, GOC 11 Corps of the BEF, died unexpectedly of a heart attack shortly after arriving in France. 
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17 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Stalluponen
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18 Aug 1914 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was named the commandant of the Japanese Navy Academy. 
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18 Aug 1914 WW2 Settsu was assigned to the First Fleet of the Japanese Navy. 
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19 Aug 1914 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt's son Franklin D., Jr. was born. 
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19 Aug 1914 WW2 The first war sortie of the British Royal Flying Corps took place with a reconnaissance patrol in support of the ground troops. 
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20 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Gumbinnen
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21 Aug 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel saw his first WW1 action in the Meuse Valley on the Western Front. 
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21 Aug 1914 WW2 The First British troops in action were C Squadron, 4th Dragoon Guards who clashed with a German cyclist/cavalry patrol in the village of Soignies, France. Corporal Thomas of that squadron was credited with firing the first British shot in anger of the war. 
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21 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Ardennes
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21 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Charleroi
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21 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Siege of Namur
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23 Aug 1914 WW2 The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British army attempted to hold the line of the Mons-Condé Canal against the advancingGerman First Army. Although the British fought well and inflicted disproportionate casualties on the numerically-superior Germans, they were eventually forced to retreat due both to the greater strength of the Germans and the sudden retreat of the French Fifth Army, which exposed the British right flank. 
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23 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Mons
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23 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Capture of Dinant
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25 Aug 1914 WW2 The first German aircraft to be forced down during WW1 was a two-seat reconnaissance aircraft involved in a confrontation with three unarmed British aircraft of No. 2 Squadron RFC. 
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25 Aug 1914 WW2 The German wireless station at Kamina in Togoland which linked Germany's African colonies with Nauen in Germany was destroyed following a British invasion by the Gold Coast Regiment. 
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25 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Siege of Maubeuge
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25 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Destruction of Louvain
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26 Aug 1914 WW2 The British II Corps (Lieutenant General Horace Smith-Dorrien) consisting of the 3rd and 5th Divisions plus elements of 4th Division turned at bay at La Cateau and after a sharp battle forced the German advance to pause. 
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26 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Le Cateau
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26 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Tannenberg
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28 Aug 1914 WW2 Settsu departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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28 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Heligoland Bight
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29 Aug 1914 WW2 General Aleksandr Samsonov, the commander of the Russian 2nd Army, committed suicide following his army's defeat in battle. 
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29 Aug 1914 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was assigned to the Japanese Naval General Staff. 
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29 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Guise
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30 Aug 1914 WW2 Paris, France was bombed for the first time, by a German Taube flown by Lieutenant Ferdinand von Hiddessen. 
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01 Sep 1914 WW2 Roger Backhouse was promotoed to the rank of captain. 
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02 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of Siege of Tsingtao
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04 Sep 1914 WW2 Settsu arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1914 WW2 In late Aug 1914 five German armies surged forward into France from Amiens to Verdun, starting Battle of the Marne. They were confronted by French forces and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). After the French withdrew to defend Paris, the Allies retreated to a line south of the Seine. 
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06 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of the Marne
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08 Sep 1914 WW2 During Battle of the Marne, a change in the German attack exposed their flank and the French 6th Army, under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury, commandeered 600 Paris taxis to make an opportunist attack. The other Allied forces did not hear of the tactical switch and continued to fall back. A German counterattack at the centre of the line threw back the French under Marshal Foch. 
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09 Sep 1914 WW2 Hubert Lanz was severely wounded in combat. 
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09 Sep 1914 WW2 Upon receiving word that the French 6th Army was on the offensive near Paris, France, British troops reversed from their retreat to join the offensive. German forces began to fall back, and the Allied pursuit would be slow. 
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09 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of the Masurian Lakes
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11 Sep 1914 WW2 Australian forces landed near Rabaul, Bismarck Islands and captured the wireless station after a brief but fierce firefight. The 5 Australians killed during this action were the Australian casualties of WW1. 
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11 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Bita Paka
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12 Sep 1914 WW2 Australian troops captured the town of Rabaul, Bismarck Islands. 
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12 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of the Aisne
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13 Sep 1914 WW2 Battle of the Marne drew to a close with 800,000 German and over a million French and British casualties. 
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13 Sep 1914 WW2 Allied armies under General Joffre conducted a frontal assault along the Aisne River in France. The troops crossed the river by pontoon bridges and assaulted strong German positions, but were then flung back to their starting point. 
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14 Sep 1914 WW2 Having failed to dislodge German troops on the far bank of the Aisne River in France on the previous day, the battle dwindled out into the trench warfare that would characterise WW1. 
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14 Sep 1914 WW2 Kaiser William II appointed Lieutenant General Falkenhayn, the German Minister of War, to the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Army. 
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15 Sep 1914 WW2 Creighton Abrams was born. 
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15 Sep 1914 WW2 Lieutenant General Akira Nakamura succeeded Lieutenant General Yasumasa Fukushima as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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16 Sep 1914 WW2 All German troops in the Bismarck Islands surrendered to the Australians. 
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18 Sep 1914 WW2 The Irish Home Rule Act reached the British statute books but was suspended for the duration of the war with Germany. 
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24 Sep 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel, wielding a rifle without any ammunition, fought three French soldiers, catching a ricocheting bullet in the left thigh. 
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25 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Albert
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26 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Sandfontein
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27 Sep 1914 WW2 In West Africa, the British captured Douala, the Cameroons principle port and wireless station, without a shot being fired. 
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27 Sep 1914 WW2 The first French bomber groupe was formed with Voisin biplanes. 
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27 Sep 1914 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo studied an advanced course at the mine warfare school. 
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28 Sep 1914 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt's bid for US Senate was defeated in the Democratic primary. 
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28 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of Siege of Antwerp
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30 Sep 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel was hospitalized for the thigh wound he sustained in action on 24 Sep. He was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class medal for the action. 
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01 Oct 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Arras
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07 Oct 1914 WW2 Josef Frantisek was born in Otaslavice, Austria-Hungary (later Czechoslovakia). 
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08 Oct 1914 WW2 Prodded by Winston Churchill, the Admiralty had agreed to the plan masterminded by Wing Commdander Charles Rumney Sampson of the Eastchurch Squadron, RNAS, for a bombing raid on the Zeppelin sheds in Cologne and Dusseldorf in Germany. Flying from Antwerp, Belgium, the two Sopwith Tabloid aircraft, piloted by Squadron Leader D. A. Spenser Grey and Flight Lieutenant L.G. "Reggie" Marix, flew a distance of 112 miles and 104 miles respectively on this, which the first air raid against a target on German soil. Grey, unable to find the target because of poor visibility, became frustrated and dropped his bombs on Cologne Railway Station. Marix however was more successful. Locating the Zeppelin sheds, he attacked with bombs from a height of around 600 feet. Inside the sheds, the recently completed and fully inflated Zeppelin Z.IX airship LZ 25 was destroyed as were the adjoining workshops in the resulting fire. 
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08 Oct 1914 WW2 The French claimed their first air victory in combat when a Voisin Type LA of Escadrille V24 shot down a German Aviatik B.1. 
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11 Oct 1914 RELIGIOUS During World War I, the Cathedral of Notre Dame suffered minor damage during an air raid on Paris. (Notre Dame, the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages, is distinguished for both its size and antiquity.)
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14 Oct 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Ypres
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18 Oct 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Yser
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20 Oct 1914 WW2 German troops under General von Falkenhayn began an offensive at the British Expeditionary Force at Ypres, Belgium, starting the First Battle of Ypres. 
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21 Oct 1914 WW2 Near Ypres, Belgium, British commanders ordered the troops to fall back in the evening. 
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22 Oct 1914 WW2 British troops near Ypres, Belgium fell back 2.5 miles to a newly prepared defensive line, but the British 12th Brigade was able to hold ground against a German attack at Le Gheer, Belgium 5 miles to the south. The village of Langemarck was completely destroyed in the fighting on this day. 
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23 Oct 1914 WW2 German troops attacked the towns of Escobecques, Englos, and Capingham in Belgium south of Ypres. 
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24 Oct 1914 WW2 French 7th Division advanced between Zonnebeke and Langemarck, Belgium just east of Ypres as the Germans launched a renewed offensive supported by heavy siege guns. 
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25 Oct 1914 WW2 German troops captured Dixmude, Belgium. 
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26 Oct 1914 WW2 The Allies, front line troops exhausted, decided to flood to the canal and waterways of the Yser River in Belgium should German troops continue to advance. 
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26 Oct 1914 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of St. Anna, 4th Class. 
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28 Oct 1914 WW2 Michio Kobayashi was born. 
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29 Oct 1914 WW2 After sundown, as German troops continued to advance in Belgium, eight flood gates of the Noordervaart Canal were opened by the Allies. 
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30 Oct 1914 WW2 The Turkish navy made a pre-emptive strike against Russia. The ex-German battlecruiser Goeben shelled Sevastopol in Russia, the cruiser Breslau shelled Novorossiisk in Russia, and the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh shelled Odesssa in Ukraine. 
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31 Oct 1914 WW2 Russia and the United Kingdom declared war on Turkey as the response to the previously day's attacks by the Turkish Navy. 
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31 Oct 1914 WW2 Sepoy Kuda Dad Khan (129th Baluchis) became the first Indian Amy soldier to win the Victoria Cross. At Hollebeke, Belgium he kept his machine gun firing even when his detachment had been overrun, and his comrades killed all around him. 
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31 Oct 1914 WW2 Settsu began the bombardment of German positions in and near Qingdao, Shandong Province, China alongside of Japanese battleship Kawachi, German pre-dreadnaught HMS Triumph, and other smaller warships and support ships. 
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01 Nov 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Coronel
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02 Nov 1914 WW2 In German East Africa, the Indian Expeditionary Force B went ashore at an undefended beach near Tanga at the northern end of the Northern Railway. 
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02 Nov 1914 WW2 The United Kingdom extended the blockade by declaring the North Sea to be a military area. 
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02 Nov 1914 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th Class with Swords and Bow. 
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03 Nov 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Tanga
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04 Nov 1914 WW2 The Indian Expeditionary Force fought its way into Tanga in German East Africa but the single German company stationed there put up only a token resistance before slipping away into the bush. 
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04 Nov 1914 WW2 Valiant was launched at Govan, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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05 Nov 1914 WW1 Begin of Capture of Basra
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07 Nov 1914 WW2 Settsu departed waters off Qingdao, China. 
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11 Nov 1914 WW2 Lieutenant General Falkenhayn, Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, seeing no immediate prospect of success, called off the battle on the Yser and around Ypres on the Western Front. 
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12 Nov 1914 WW2 German troops attacked Ypres, Belgium. 
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13 Nov 1914 WW2 British 8th Division arrived in Ypres, Belgium, which was currently under German attack. 
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14 Nov 1914 WW2 Sheikh-ul-Islam, the Ottoman Sultan, declared Jihad (Holy War) against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro. 
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17 Nov 1914 WW2 Battleship HMS Royal Oak was launched. 
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20 Nov 1914 WW2 German troops began to withdraw from Ypres, Belgium, abandoning the offensive which began on 20 Oct 1914. 
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20 Nov 1914 WW2 Georg von Küchler was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. 
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21 Nov 1914 WW2 Three British RNAS Avro 504 aircraft led by Wing Commander E. F. Briggs bombed the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen, Germany. 
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22 Nov 1914 WW2 All German troops were evacuated from the Ypres, Belgium region, ending the First Battle of Ypres. Although the British managed to hold on to the ruins of Ypres, they had suffered 58,000 casualties (80% of the original British Expeditionary Force), while the French suffered 50,000. The Germans suffered over 130,000 casualties. The end of this battle would mark the last major offensive of 1914. 
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26 Nov 1914 WW2 Robert Greim was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class medal. 
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27 Nov 1914 WW2 Nobutake Kondo graduated from the Japanese Navy gunnery school. 
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28 Nov 1914 WW2 Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Hauptmann. 
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01 Dec 1914 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to battleship Kirishima. 
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01 Dec 1914 WW2 Captain Yasujiro Nagata was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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03 Dec 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Qurna
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08 Dec 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Falkland Islands
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11 Dec 1914 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of sub-lieutenant and was transferred out of battlecruiser Kongo. 
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16 Dec 1914 WW1 Begin of Raid on Scarborough and Hartlepool
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17 Dec 1914 WW2 Vice Admiral Rinroku Eguchi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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18 Dec 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Givenchy
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20 Dec 1914 WW2 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur. 
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20 Dec 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Champagne
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21 Dec 1914 WW2 Britain was bombed for the first time when a German Taube dropped two bombs near the Admiralty Pier in Kent, England, United Kingdom. 
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25 Dec 1914 WW2 The British seaplane carriers HMS Empress, HMS Engadine and HMS Riviera operating off Heligoland, Germany launched a force of nine Short seaplanes to attack the Zeppelin sheds at Cuxhaven. Fog prevented the target being located, and only three aircraft located their parent ships on their return. 
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