LIFE 1914
Historical Highlights from 1914 :
- The assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand triggers events leading to the Great War, World War I, the war to end all wars.
- Panama Canal is officially opened after 10 years of construction.
- The world’s first red and green traffic lights are installed in Cleveland.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes published.
- The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox.
- The last known passenger pigeon “Martha” dies in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- Henry Ford sells 248,000 cars.
- Joe DiMaggio, Major League Baseball center fielder, is born.
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