world's largest ship. May 30 – Pioneer aviator Wilbur Wright (of the Wright brothers) dies of typhoid fever in Dayton, Ohio. June June 6 – The Novarupta volcano ( southwest of Anchorage) experiences a VEI 6 eruption (the largest in the 20th century). June 30 – Canada's deadliest tornado strikes Regina, Saskatchewan killing 28 people. July July 1 – Harriet Quimby, who set the record as the first woman to fly the English Channel two months previously, dies in Squantum, Massachusetts, after her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane crashes, killing both Quimby and her passenger. July 12 – The United States release of Sarah Bernhardt's film Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth is influential in the development of the movie feature. Adolph Zukor, who incorporates Paramount Pictures on May 8, 1914, launches his company as the distributor. Paramount celebrates its centennial in 2012. July 30 – Emperor Meiji of Japan dies; he is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who becomes Emperor Taishō. In the history of Japan, the event marks the end of the Meiji period and the beginning of the Taishō period. August August 1 – The Jungfrau Railway is inaugurated with the opening of the subterranean Jungfraujoch railway station in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, Europe's highest at above sea level. August 4 – United States occupation of Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS Annapolis in Nicaragua, to support the conservative government at its request. August 12 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates. August 21 – The first Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) earns his rank. August 29 – A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people. September September 4 – The government of the Ottoman Empire agrees to the demands put forward in the Albanian Revolt of 1912. September 28 – W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues" in the United States. October October 8 – The First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. October 10 – The Maternity Allowance Act goes into effect in Australia, but excludes minorities. October 14 – John Flammang Schrank attempts to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee. October 16 – Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the second bombing with an airplane in history, at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne, against Turkey. October 17 – Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel. October 18 – Italy and