* Ajax ( 1914 automobile ), Seattle, Washington, U. S.

* 1914 – Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U. S. Navy near Veracruz.

* 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author ( d. 1997 )

By 1914, the problem had grown to the point where an estimated one U. S. citizen in 400 ( 0. 25 %) was addicted to some form of opium.

* Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860 – 1914.

* 1914 – The U. S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U. S. Army for the first time.

* 1914 – The first ever Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup final is played.

In 1914, the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty was signed, giving the U. S. control over the proposed canal, as well as leases for potential canal defenses.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U. S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

The 1914 Bryan-Chamorro Treaty granted perpetual canal rights to the U. S. in Nicaragua and was signed ten days before the U. S .- operated Panama Canal opened for use, thus preventing anyone from building a competing canal in Nicaragua without U. S. permission.

The Panama Canal was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914 ; the existing 83-kilometer ( 50-mi.

The Canadian engineer Reginald Fessenden, while working for the Submarine Signal Company in Boston, built an experimental system beginning in 1912, a system later tested in Boston Harbor, and finally in 1914 from the U. S. Revenue ( now Coast Guard ) Cutter Miami on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland Canada.

By 1914 the Republican Party was beginning to show signs of reunification, with the result that support weakened for Ohio's U. S. Senator Theodore Burton, who then decided not to stand for re-election.

These fears produced the British 1914 The German Spy Peril, centred on a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, and 1913's O. H. M. S., standing for ' Our Helpless Millions Saved ' as well as On His Majesty's Service ( and introducing for the first time a strong female character who helps the hero ).

* Silberer, Herbert ( 1917 ) Problems of mysticism and its symbolism ( translation of Silberer, Herbert ( 1914 ) Probleme der mystik und ihrer symbolik Heller, Vienna, OCLC 4943853 ) Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, OCLC 538149 ; reprinted in 1970 by S. Weiser, New York, ISBN 0-87728-038-X

As with Yellowstone, the new federal park was under U. S. Army jurisdiction until 1914.

* Russian — Chagall, Marc ( worked mainly in France ): Pierrot with Umbrella ( 1926 ); Somov, Konstantin: Lady and Pierrot ( 1910 ), Curtain Design for Moscow Free Theater ( 1913 ), Italian Comedy ( 1914 ; two versions ); Suhaev, Vasilij, and Alexandre Yakovlev: Harlequin and Pierrot ( Self-Portraits of and by Suhaev and A. Yakovlev ) ( 1914 ); Tchelitchew, Pavel ( worked mainly in France and U. S. A .): Pierrot ( 1930 ).

U. S. Marines were stationed on the isthmus ( 1903 – 1914 )

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 (, codified at, ), was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U. S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.

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.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

In the century from 1815 to 1914 the law of nations became international law.

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

Drawn up in 1914, the cross-licensing agreement became effective in 1915.

In 1914, the Clayton Act attempted to take labor out from under the anti-trust legislation by stating that human labor was not to be considered a commodity.

As we have seen, a growing proportion, although in 1914 still a minority, were members of churches.

Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

Warhol's father immigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents.

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1845 – Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St. Elisabeth ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Heidi Kabel, German actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia.

* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor ( d. 1963 )

* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor ( d. 1970 )

England and Australia were evenly matched until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )