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welp time to kick this off with a turn

next turn year 1914

events

September[edit]

Pope Benedict XV, the new pope Main article: September 1914 September 1 (August 19 Old Style) Saint Petersburg in Russia changes its name to Petrograd.

The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in the Cincinnati Zoo from old age.

September 3 Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds Pope Pius X, as the 258th pope.

William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months, due to opposition to his rule.

September 14 – Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS AE1 vanishes while on combat patrol near Papua New Guinea, beginning one of Australia's longest naval mysteries; the sunken vessel will not be discovered for another 103 years.

September 15 The Maritz Rebellion of disaffected Boers against the government of the Union of South Africa begins.

General Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Boer War, is shot dead after his driver fails to stop at a police roadblock. September 17

Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

September 26 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established, by the Federal Trade Commission Act. . September 30 – The Flying Squadron of America is established, to promote the temperance movement. October[edit] Main article: October 1914

October 4 The 1914 Burdur earthquake occurs in Turkey. The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three is signed, supporting the early German war effort.

The Greek army occupies Northern Epirus with the approval of the Allies.

Alpha Phi Delta is founded as a Greek social fraternity at Syracuse University in the United States.

November 13 – Zaian War: Battle of El Herri – Zayanes (Berbers) in Morocco overpower French forces. November 16 – A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.

November 21 – In New Haven, Connecticut, the new Yale Bowl officially opens; Harvard defeats Yale 36–0 in the first American football game held here.

November 23 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair; Venustiano Carranza's troops take over, and Carranza makes the town his headquarters.

November 24 – Benito Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.

December[edit] Main article: December 1914 December 15 – A gas explosion at the Mitsubishi Hōjō mine disaster, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687 people (the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history).

December 17 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton Harrison).

December 18 – Egypt becomes a British protectorate.[18] December 19

Mohandas Gandhi leaves England, sailing for India on this date (accompanied by his wife Kasturba). He begins to learn the Bengali language whilst on board.

December 20 – Tokyo Station, officially open, and change from railway base station from Shinbashi Station in Japan.[page needed]