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1914
 
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J.B.M. Hertzog founds the National Party in South Africa to represent Afrikaner interests       
1914
 
   
Summoned to Austria for military service, Hitler is rejected as being physically unfit      
1914
 
    
George Ruth acquires the nickname Babe when he joins the baseball team the Baltimore Orioles       
1914
 
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British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony      
1914
 
    
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte        
1914
 
    
A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery       
1914
 
    
A building by Walter Gropius for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne brings him international attention       
1914
 
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British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster      
1914
 
    
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast       
1914
 
    
Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes