Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.

* 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

The world's first four-engined bomber was the Russian Il ' ya Muromets created in 1914 and successfully used in World War I.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.

Caught in the Rain ( issued 4 May 1914 ), Chaplin's first directed picture, was among Keystone's most successful releases to date.

In November 1914, Chaplin appeared in the first feature length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Sennett.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

In 1914, Werner resolved the first coordination complex, called hexol, into optical isomers, overthrowing the theory that only carbon compounds could possess chirality.

In 1914 the island was visited by the German light cruiser SMS Emden half-way through its historic commerce raiding cruise during the first months of World War I.

Between 1892 and 1914 destroyers became markedly larger: initially 420 tons with a length of for the US Navy's first Bainbridge class of torpedo boat destroyers, up to the First World War with long destroyers displacing 1000 tons was not unusual.

The first shot of the war at sea was fired on 5 August 1914 by a destroyer of the 2nd Flotilla,, in an engagement with the German auxiliary minelayer.

The first submarine casualty to a destroyer was the German, rammed by on 29 October 1914.

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

* 1914 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.

On August 4, 1914, Germany invaded Belgium, leaving Moresnet at first " an oasis in a desert of destruction ".

In 1914, due to the growing anti-German sentiments that swept across Europe during the first few months of World War I, Prince Louis of Battenberg was removed from his position as First Sea Lord in the Admiralty and publicly humiliated by King George V and Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

The original exhibition opened in 1914 and was one of the first at the Smithsonian to prominently feature women.

Some of the first such " fighters " belonged to the " gunbus " series of experimental gun carriers of the British Vickers company that culminated in the Vickers F. B. 5 Gunbus of 1914.

The origins of Italian Fascism resulted from this split, first with Angelo Oliviero Olivetti forming an pro-interventionist fasci called the Fasci of International Action in October 1914.

* 1918 – SS Tuscania ( 1914 ) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland ; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

By 1914, Hoover was an extremely wealthy man, with an estimated personal fortune of $ 4m He was once quoted as saying " If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty, he is not worth much ".

He arrived in New York City in December 1914 with $ 32 to his name.

Bush returned to Tufts in October 1914 to teach mathematics for $ 300 a term.

The park was built in six weeks in 1914 at a cost of about $ 250, 000 ($ 5. 3 million in 2011 dollars ) by the Chicago lunchroom magnate Charles Weeghman, who owned the Federal League Whales.

Construction began in 1914 under the leadership of Charles Sumner Frost and took two years, at a total cost of $ 4. 5 million.

Concurrently, a strong City Beautiful movement, promoted by Mayor Frank Kanning Mott, was responsible for creating and preserving parks and monuments in Oakland, including major improvements to Lake Merritt and the construction of Oakland Civic Auditorium, which cost $ 1M in 1914.

As of October 23, 1914, $ 368, 616, 990 was outstanding.

Councilman A. M. Starbird was appointed its manager, but it was not until voters approved a $ 9, 000 bond in 1914 that he was able to contract with International Harvester Corporation to construct a power plant, so electricity was not available in the city until February 10, 1915.

The vests cost $ 800 USD each in 1914, a small fortune at the time.

The Detroit Symphony was founded in 1914 by ten Detroit society women who each contributed $ 100 to the organization and pledged to find 100 additional subscribers.

Directly across Weston Avenue from the old 26th Cavalry barracks stands this small structure that was constructed in November 1914 at a cost of only $ 260.

He took a later job in 1914 at the age of 20 with a local piano company, added to his library work, and appeared at a number of amateur night competitions, soon taking the stage name Fred St. James and booking with the local vaudeville circuit at $ 30 a week, enough at that time to allow him to quit his jobs with the library and the piano company.

Henry V. Darlington, an Episcopal minister in Delaware and nearby Belvidere offered to buy the second-hand bridge for $ 5, 000 ( 1914 USD, equal to $ today ).

Darlington, a local Episcopal minister, put up an offer of $ 5, 000 ( 1914 USD ) for the bridge, the railroad immediately took the money.

It was constructed in 1914 and 1915 at a cost of $ 13, 000, a gift of early BBG benefactor and trustee Alfred T. White, and it first opened to the public in June 1915.

After 1914, the value of the escudo fell, being fixed in 1928 at 108 $ 25 to the pound.

Debt increased again during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), reaching $ 25. 5 billion at its conclusion.

Hughes did authorize the creation of a small aviation unit to accompany the CEF to Britain and on 16 September 1914, the Canadian Aviation Corps ( CAC ) was formed with two officers, one mechanic, and $ 5000 to purchase an aircraft from the Burgess Company in Massachusetts, for delivery to Valcartier, near Quebec City.

The company's first project was a film of The Patchwork Girl of Oz ; and its second, released in October 1914, was His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, produced at a cost of $ 23, 500, and with a cast ( according to the not-always factually reliable Baum ) of 130.

The directors ' salaries were significantly lower ( at $ 12, 000 when first appointed in 1914 ) and their terms of office were much shorter prior to 1935.

In August 1914 the gold reserves of the Bank of England ( and effectively of the whole British banking system ) amounted to nine million pounds ( at the time £ 1 = US $ 4. 85 ).

From 1890 to 1914 the unionized wages in manufacturing rose from $ 17. 63 a week to $ 21. 37, and the average work week fell from 54. 4 to 48. 8 hours a week.

* 1914: The first $ 5 Federal Reserve Note was issued with a portrait of Lincoln on the obverse and vignettes of Columbus sighting land and the Pilgrims ' landing on the reverse.