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Historical Events in February 1914

  • Feb 1 Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a 10-inning, 3-3 tie in Cairo, Egypt in an exhibition MLB game; part of special 56-game world tour
  • Feb 1 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
  • Feb 1 Tanganyika Railway opens
  • Feb 2 James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu" premieres in NYC
  • Feb 4 US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law

The Tramp

Feb 7 Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film character The Tramp in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"

  • Feb 7 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco
  • Feb 8 General Zamon becomes President of Haiti

Passive Resistance Prisoners Released

Feb 10 In accordance with the understanding reached by General Jan Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison; 40 passive resisters released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle, 11 in Port Elizabeth

The Squaw Man

Feb 12 "The Squaw Man", 1st feature-length film shot in Hollywood, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel, is released in the US

Lincoln Memorial Dedicated

Feb 12 Dedication ceremony for the about to be constructed Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

  • Feb 13 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) founded at Hotel Claridge in NYC
  • Feb 14 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
  • Feb 16 1st airplane flight from LA to SF

No Babies Please!

Feb 19 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance

  • Feb 19 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin
  • Feb 21 Bai Lang ("White Wolf") troops attack Zhanjiang, China
  • Feb 21 In a secret meeting of civil and military leaders, Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov convinces them to support a plan for seizing the straits, controlled by Turkey, that block access to the Mediterranean
  • Feb 24 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks" premieres in NYC
  • Feb 26 HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast
  • Feb 26 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
  • Feb 28 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the San Francisco Exposition