It was Tuesday, under the sign of Leo. The US president was Woodrow Wilson (Democratic). Famous people born on this day include Jacques Rouet(Gisors EXecutives).
The 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire began on 14 August 1917 in the city of Kazan, which was then center of governorate within the Russian Empire, destroying the plant. The fire began from a negligent guard's cigar stub at Porokhovaya (now Lagernaya) railway station, the nearest to the plant.
Henri Matisse painted Allée dans le Bois de Clamart.
Sorouce: https://theartstack.com/artist/henri-matisse/allee-dans-le-bois-de-cl
Zinaida Gippius said "Russian affairs are still the same. As if there is less scrambling away from the Germans since the restoration of the death penalty at the front. But only “less”, for they restored it blindly, weakly, uncertainly, as if they were stealing. I think this is criminal. Either do not restore it, or restore it in a way that every soldier knows with complete certainty: if you go ahead - maybe you will die, maybe not, not everyone is killed in a war; if you go back, arbitrarily, you will surely die."
Zinaida Gippius was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism.
THE GERMAN AIR FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205127742
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