page_title: April 1914
section_title: April 26, 1914 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: April 1914 / April 26, 1914 (Sunday)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in April 1914:
context_section_description: France began to hold general elections with final results not tallied until May 10.
  Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition – Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian military officer Cândido Rondon completed their exploration of the River of Doubt (later renamed Roosevelt River) in the Amazon. The expedition achieved its objectives at terrible cost. Three men out of the 16 in the exploration party perished (one through drowning, another by homicide, forcing the party to abandon the third man who committed the act to perish in the jungle). The rest were weakened by starvation and disease. Roosevelt and Rondon credited the help of a team of seringueiros (local Brazilians who harvest rubber from trees for tire manufacturing in North America) for providing needed aid through the last leg of the river to meet their rendezvous with the American-Brazilian relief party which escorted them back to Manaus, Brazil.
  Born: Bernard Malamud, American writer, author of The Fixer and The Natural, in New York City (d. 1986); Lilian Rolfe, French secret agent in World War II, in Paris, worked in France behind enemy lines until her capture in 1944 (executed in 1945); James Rouse, American real estate developer, founder of The Rouse Company, in Easton, Maryland (d. 1996)
  Died: Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist, first proposed the supercontinent Gondwana (b. 1831)
caption: Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon and their Amazon expedition party
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