Historical Events In 1914
May 06 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
May 09 President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
May 07 US Congress establishes mother's day
May 07 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House
May 25 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
May 29 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
May 01 China's first president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
May 21 Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
Jan 01 The first part of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway is opened for service between North Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay, 12 miles.
Jan 05 James Cox of Ford Motor Co announces wages will jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day
Jan 06 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
Jan 13 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
Jan 01 The first scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
Jan 07 The first steam powered boat passes through the Panama Canal
Jan 05 James Cox of Ford Motor Co announces wages will jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day
Jan 07 The first steam powered boat passes through the Panama Canal
Jan 01 The first scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
Jan 14 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
Jan 16 Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
Jan 01 Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
Jan 01 The first part of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway is opened for service between North Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay, 12 miles.
Jan 06 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
Jan 10 First edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
Jan 29 U.S. Marines land in Haiti to protect U.S. consulate
Jan 26 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
Jan 01 Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands' first socialist mayor (Zaandam)
Jan 11 Captain Robert Abram Bartlett 1875-1946 sees his Canadian Arctic Expedition ship Karluk crushed by ice near Herald Island, north of Siberia, 300 km short of his destination of Herschel Island; one of three ships of Stefansson expedition; many of the survivors will die before they reach Wrangel Island, 100 km away, where they wait until September before being rescued
Jan 01 Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
Jan 02 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
Jan 01 Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands' first socialist mayor (Zaandam)
Jan 26 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
Jan 28 Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated
Jan 02 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
Feb 24 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in New York NY
Feb 13 ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is founded in New York City.
