page_title: March 1914
section_title: March 9, 1914 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1914 / March 9, 1914 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: Teniente 1º Alejandro Bello Silva.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1914:
context_section_description: Jesús Salgado, under orders by Emiliano Zapata, surrounded Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, Mexico with an armed force of 5,000 men.
  British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith proposed to allow the Ulster counties to hold a vote on whether or not to join a Home Rule parliament in Dublin.
  A fire at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis killed 30 people. The fire started in the lower levels of the seven-storey building, forcing guests to the upper floors, where many escaped using red-hot fire escapes or jumping, causing many injuries and two deaths.
  Chilean pilot Alejandro Bello disappeared while flying a Sánchez-Besa biplane over the central region of Chile as part of a flight exam for military service. Search and rescue could not locate any wreckage in the area, leading to theories he may have crashed while over the sea. Search expeditions as recent as 1988 have failed to turn up any evidence of a plane crash (In 2007, metal fragments belonging to an aircraft were found in the hills near Cuncumén, Chile but could not be conclusively matched to the aircraft Bello flew when he disappeared). His disappearance became a popular topic in South American popular fiction.
  Wyndham Lewis and other fellow artists from the Omega Workshops opened the rival Rebel Art Centre to the London public in what became a four-month run.
  Born: Al Ullman, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon from 1957 to 1981, in Great Falls, Montana (d. 1986)
  Died: José Luciano de Castro, Portuguese state leader, 38th, 43rd and 45th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1834)
caption: Chilean pilot Alejandro Bello
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