William Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-eighth U.S. President
(1913-1921)
World War I Starts
June 28, 1914 - Serbian fanatic, Gavrilo Princip, assassinates
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo sparking the Great
War, later known as World War I due to country alliances.
Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Britain
Central Powers: Austria, Germany
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Panama Canal
opens to shipping on August 15, 1914.
Edward S. Curtis
(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)
First Scheduled Airline - St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line
Plan for the first scheduled airline conceived by Percival Elliot Fansler who corresponded with Tom Benoist,
manufacturer of Benoist airplanes and coordinated with the city of St. Petersburg and found financial investors.
Room for one paying passenger. Flights started January 1, 1914
and ran through May 5, 1914.
Vitamin A is isolated.
Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook.
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