Oct 15 Clayton Antitrust Act passed

Oct 15 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded

Oct 13 The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway is opened throughout between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst, Ont. Construction was started in 1899 and it was opened in stages as follows Hawk Junction (junction with the Michipicoten Branch) - 1911. Franz, (crossing with CP) - mid 1912. Oba (crossing with CN) - late 1912. . The name was shortened to Algoma Central in 1965.

Jul 04 The first US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)

Jul 14 The first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)

Jul 28 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia-WW I begins

Jul 01 Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company, Vancouver Island

Jul 12 Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox

Jul 28 Foxtrot first danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)

Jul 28 World War I begins as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

Jul 09 The first US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY

Jul 29 The first transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF

Jul 28 The first World War begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

Jul 23 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I

Jul 18 US army air service first comes into being, in the Signal Corps

Jul 31 Labor leader Andrew Fisher declares at Colac that Australians will defend Britain "to our last man and our last shilling"

Mar 31 Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia

Mar 07 US Congress establishes mother's day

Mar 27 The first successful blood transfusion is performed

Mar 09 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co

Mar 09 Test of wind tunnel at Washington Navy Yard

Mar 31 The birth of Octavio Paz, mexican writer and poet

Mar 21 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld

Mar 18 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China

Mar 18 Fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons).

Mar 10 Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez

Mar 21 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Norman M Scott

Mar 09 US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"

Mar 27 First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

Mar 07 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House

Mar 14 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty

Mar 19 Stanley Cup Toronto Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Victoria Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game

Mar 20 The first international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven

Mar 19 Stanley Cup: Toronto Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Victoria Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game

Mar 01 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum

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