1914

• Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated - WW I begins

  The zipper perfected

  Raggedy Ann dolls

• Panama Canal opens
• St. Petersburg, Russia re-named Petrograd
• Henry Ford pays workers $5.00 per day
• New Jersey sets the minimum wage for women at $9.00 per week
• Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes
• Booth Tarkington's Penrod
• Robert H. Goddard begins rocketry experiments
• Morton begins using "When It Rains, It Pours" as it's trademark
• Claifornia produce shipped east in refrigerated railroad cars
• 1st use of teletype
• The zipper perfected
• "Tinkertoys"
• Raggedy Ann dolls
• Loretta Young, Ralph Ellison, Alec Guiness, Tyrone Power, Joe Lewis, Thor Heyerdahl, Dylan Thomas, and Joe DiMaggio born
• Pope Pius X and George Westinghouse die

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