1. First Pulitzer Prizes are awarded
2. "I Want You" Uncle Sam recruitment poster debuts
3. National Hockey League (NHL) organized
4. Auguste Rodin dies (November 12, 1840 –November 17, 1917) sculpted “The Thinker”
5. Reverend Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town outside Omaha Nebraska
6. Finland declares independence from Russia
7. Order of British Empire inaugurated
1. Woodrow Wilson wins reelection against Charles Hughes 277 electoral votes to 254 for Hughes
2. The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first Norman Rockwell picture (Boy with Baby Carriage).
3. The U.S. Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is founded
4. Lincoln Logs invented by architect Frank Lloyd Wright's son John Lloyd Wright
5. Planters Nut and Chocolate introduces "Mr. Peanut".
6. Nathan's Famous frankfurters have their beginning in a Coney Island, N.Y., hot dog stand opened by Polish-born merchant Nathan Handwerker.
7. National Defense Act establishes ROTC
1. A torpedo from a German submarine sinks the passenger ship R.M.S. Lusitania at 2:10 in the afternoon of May 7 off the coast of Ireland, and the huge vessel sinks in 18 minutes, killing 1,198.
2. Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll
3. The first Kiwanis Club is organized at Detroit
4. The British army develops the tank largely as a way to overcome German barbed wire emplacements.
5. The U.S. Coast Guard created January 28 by an amalgamation of the Revenue-Cutter Service established in 1789 and the Life-Saving Service established in 1878
6. "The Metamorphosis" by Czech writer Franz Kafka
7. The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan.
1. The Panama Canal opens to traffic August 3
2. World War I starts with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3. Greyhound Bus has its beginnings in the Mesabi Transportation Co. founded at Hibbing, Minnesota, by Carl Eric Wickman
4. Passenger pigeon becomes extinct September 1 as the last known bird of the species (Martha) dies in the Cincinnati Zoo
5. Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
6. The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) founded
7. Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox.
1. First crossword puzzle appears December 21 in Fun, the weekend supplement of the New York World by Arthur Wynne
2. The Erector Set introduced by the Mysto Manufacturing Co. of New Haven, Conn. by A. C. (Alfred Carlton) Gilbert.
3. "Bringing up Father" by cartoonist George McManus, introduces readers to comic-strip characters Maggie and Jiggs.
4. "Trees" by Alfred Joyce Kilmer, appears in the August issue of Poetry magazine
5. The American Cancer Society has its beginnings in the American Society for the Control of Cancer.
6. The Little Mermaid by Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen
7. The Dixon Ticonderoga pencil introduced
8. Actors' Equity Association is founded May 26
1. R.M.S. Titanic sunk after hitting iceberg in the North Atlantic April 15: 1,513 passengers and crew lost
2. Woodrow Wilson wins presidential election - 435: Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) - 88: President Taft (Republican) - 8
3. New Mexico enters the Union as the 47th state
4. Arizona enters the Union as the 48th state
5. German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener first proposes his theory of continental drift and the super continent of Pangaea.
6. “Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" by Chicago-born writer Edgar Rice Burroughs takes up almost the entire October issue of “The All-Story” magazine.
7. Scoville scale Unit devised and tested by Wilbur Scoville. Used to measure heat of peppers.
8. The Girl Scouts of USA has its beginnings at Savannah, Georgia, where local widow Juliette Low enrolls 18 girls in the first troop of Girl Guides in America.
1. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrives at the South Pole
2. Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
3. Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil
4. Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize
5. Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution that will lead to the founding of the “Republic of China”.
6. Hiram Bingham re-discovers the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes near Cuzco, Peru.
7. Polish biochemist Casimir / Kazimierz Funk proposes the term "Vitamin"
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