Timeline April 1914

Events in April 1914 7

• 1839 – 1914 Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) Died 19 April 1914, aged 74 An American philosopher, logician, and scientist, Peirce founded the philosophical school of pragmatism and made lasting contributions to semiotics and logic. He worked much of his life in poverty and obscurity, gaining wider recognition only after his death. He is now regarded as one of America's most original thinkers.
• 1914 Moves to Berlin Prussian Academy, no teaching duties Planck and Nernst travelled to Zurich to recruit him with a research post free of obligations. Einstein accepted and arrived in Berlin in spring 1914, despite disliking Prussian militarism. Within months Europe was at war.
• 1914 – 2000 Alec Guinness (1914-2000) English actor who moved from the Ealing comedies to The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars.
• 1914 Alec Guinness born in London Alec Guinness is born in London.
• 1914 – 2000 Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000) Died 5 August 2000, aged 86 Alec Guinness was among Britain's foremost actors, ranging from Ealing comedies to David Lean epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he won an Oscar. To later audiences he was Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, a role he regarded with some disdain despite the fortune it brought him. He was also a celebrated stage performer.
• 1914 Ludlow Massacre National Guardsmen attack a striking miners' tent colony in Colorado During a long coal strike, Colorado National Guard troops and mine guards attacked a tent colony of striking miners and their families at Ludlow, killing around twenty people including women and children. The massacre triggered a ten-day armed uprising by miners across the region. It became a defining episode in American labor history.
• 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz American forces seize the Mexican port amid the Mexican Revolution U.S. Marines and sailors occupied the port of Veracruz after an incident involving detained American sailors, intervening in Mexico's ongoing revolution. The occupation strained relations with the government of Victoriano Huerta and drew condemnation from several Latin American states. American forces withdrew in November after mediation.