WHAT HAPPENED IN 1914.
Look what happened the 1914.

The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York, New York. (30. May 1914)

Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. (23. June 1914)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I. (28. June 1914)

Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. (29. June 1914)

The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo. (4. July 1914)

Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. (11. July 1914)

USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched. (11. July 1914)

The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time. (18. July 1914)

The Crown council of Romania decides for the country to remain neutral in World War I. (21. July 1914)

Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will accept all but one of those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28. (23. July 1914)

Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship. (26. July 1914)

Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government. (27. July 1914)

World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. (28. July 1914)

The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I. (1. August 1914)

World War I: Germany declares war against France. (3. August 1914)

World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality. (4. August 1914)

World War I: The German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion. (5. August 1914)

In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed. (5. August 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. (6. August 1914)

World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. (6. August 1914)