The auditorium was designed to accommodate up to 7,000 people for events. The Swedish association football club Halmstads was formed in Halmstad, Sweden. Charlie Chaplin introduced to film audiences his trademark character The Tramp in his second film, in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, (although first filmed in Mabel's Strange Predicament, released two days later). Died: Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect, recipient of the Prix de Rome (b. 1829); John Parker Hawkins, American army officer, Commissioner General of the Army of the Tennessee during the American Civil War (b. 1830) February 8, 1914 (Sunday) The Armenian reform package was signed between the Ottoman Empire and Imperial Russia, which envisaged the creation of two provinces in Turkish Armenia (now Western Armenia) under the supervision of two European inspector generals. Oreste Zamor became the 24th President of Haiti after he and his brother Charles ousted president Michel Oreste from office in January. His term would be "short and extremely chaotic," ending on October 29. German ballooner Hans Berliner, along with two companions, flew a record 3,053 km (1,896 statute miles) over three days in a free balloon from Bitterfeld, Germany to Perm, Russia. The Luxembourg national football team had its first victory, beating France 5–4 in a friendly match, for the first and only time in football history. Austrian figure skater Fritz Kachler won the gold medal in the European Figure Skating Championships in Vienna. The 12-minute animated film Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay was released. Considered the first animated film produced, the film featured a prehistoric animal that performed tricks under the direction of a human named McCay. The film was part of McCay's live vaudeville act, but within a month the act was halted by news publisher William Randolph Hearst since McCay's touring schedule came in conflict with his illustrating contract with one of the newspapers Hearst owned. The animated film would be marketed later in the year by film producer William Fox. Born: Bill Finger, American comic book artist, noted for his collaboration with Bob Kane on Batman and Green Lantern, in Denver (d. 1974) February 9, 1914 (Monday) Bernardino Machado took over as Prime Minister of Portugal after Afonso Costa. Lieutenant Henry Post of the U.S. Army Signal Corps plunged to his death in San Diego Bay after the right wing of his Wright Model C airplane crumpled, shortly after reaching a record