Tuesday, September 15, 1914. Wilson: Vámonos. Beyers: Ek het opgehou.

President Wilson ordered American forces out of Veracruz.

The pro German Boer Maritz rebellion started in South Africa when Commandant General of the Union Defence Force Christian Frederic Beyers resigned from his commission in protest of the South African government's decision to provide military support to the British Empire.

Beyers, along with General Koos de la Rey then traveled to the armory at Potchefstroom to meet with commanding officer Major Jan Kemp. De la Rey was killed by police fire on the way.

Allied forces in France commenced digging trenches, the first ones dug in the Great War.

Gertie, the Wonderfully Trained Dinosaur, premiered.

Unlike the advertisements, it was in black and white.

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Sunday, September 13, 1914. Improved Allied Positions In The West.

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Monday, May 25, 1914. Home Rule

The British House of Commons passed the Irish Home Rule bill. It would not take effect due to postponements caused by World War One, thereby creating a tragedy.

But for the Great War, Ireland would have been a self-governing portion of the United Kingdom in this time frame, and very likely still would be today.

The Jungle, based on the Upton Sinclair novel, was released:

Well suited for the melodrama's fot he time, it's never been made into a film since, which is quite surprising.  This may be because of its highly left wing orientation, but then the terrible film Reds was made, so who knows.

In the film,  Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus gains a job in the stockyards and  meets and marries Ona.  They have a child, but Rudus loses his job and Ona resorts to prostituting herself to her husband's former foreman, Connor.  Rudkus kills Connor by throwing him into a cattle pen.  While he's in prison, Ona dies.  Upon release, he becomes an advocate for women in the Socialist Party.

Pope Pius X created 25 new cardinals.

4th Field Artillery & Engineers Camp, Texas City, Texas, 1914

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Sunday, May 24, 1914. Trying to put in at Nome.

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Thursday, May 14, 1914. The Life of General Villa

New Horse Market, Omaha, Nebraska, May 14, 1914.

The Life of General Villa was released as a film by D. W. Griffith. Villa was played by Villa.

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Tuesday, May 12, 1914. A Marian Apparition.

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Thursday, February 12, 1914. Groundbreaking for the Lincoln Memorial.

Ground was broken on this day for the Lincoln Memorial.

Col. William W. Harts, spade in hand, Eagle Scout Graeme T. Smallwood on the left, Henry Bacon to the right of Harts, Senator Joseph C.S. Blackburn.

The groundbreaking was barely attended.  Sen. Blackburn stated that "The memorial will show that (President Abraham) Lincoln is now regarded as the greatest of all Americans" in a speech he delivered on the occasion.

Czar Nicolas II recalled Ivan Goremykin into service as Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, replacing Vladimir Kokovtsov.

The Squaw Man, Cecille B. Demille's directorial debut, which is a melodrama set in Wyoming, premiered.  Not surprisingly, the film is not without its critics, and certainly would never be named that today.  It does feature a Native American heroine played by an actual Native American, Red Wing (Lilian Margaret St. Cyr).  St. Cyr died in 1974, at which time she was either 90, or 101, years old.