the Piedmont blues and country blues genres, in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 1969) Died: Alexander Ross Clarke, British geographer and mathematician, best known for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain and the Figure of the Earth (b. 1828) February 12, 1914 (Thursday) Tsar Nicholas called Ivan Goremykin back into service to form a cabinet and again sit as Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (a sort prime ministerial position), replacing Vladimir Kokovtsov. Former Kentucky Senator Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn turned the first sod at a dedication ceremony on the future site of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. "The memorial will show that (President Abraham) Lincoln is now regarded as the greatest of all Americans," Blackburn said in his speech at the ceremony, which was only attended by a small group of dignitaries. The silent western The Squaw Man starring Dustin Farnum and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel was released. The movie would become the second-highest grossing release in 1914 at $244,700. DeMille would remake the film two more times, in 1918 and finally in 1931. Born: Tex Beneke, American bandleader, famous for collaborations with Glenn Miller including "In the Mood", in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2000) Died: Augustus Jessopp, English cleric and writer, major contributor to The Nineteenth Century (b. 1823) February 13, 1914 (Friday) American composer Victor Herbert formed the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers at the Hotel Claridge in New York City to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members, which would include such musical artists as Irving Berlin, Otto Harbach, James Weldon Johnson, Jerome Kern and John Philip Sousa. Five men were killed in an explosion while packing explosive powder at a warehouse in Kenvil, New Jersey. Rancher Clemente Vergara, of Laredo, Texas, was taken into custody by Mexican federal troops on the Rio Grande river. Vergara had filed complaints to the Webb County sheriff over allegations of Mexican federal troops stealing horses he allowed to graze on the banks on either side of the river that bordered the United States with Mexico. Vergara had arranged to meet with the commanding officer of a garrison in Hidalgo, Coahuila, on the Mexican side of the river to discuss the matter. His nephew, who accompanied Vergara to the meeting, witnessed five soldiers ambushing Vergara as he crossed the river on a skiff, knocking him out and carrying him away as