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Events relating to north america
Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country begins publication in serial form
The New York World publishes the first crossword puzzle, devised by English-born journalist Arthur Wynne
President Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the European war
George Ruth acquires the nickname Babe when he joins the baseball team the Baltimore Orioles
Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes
The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA
More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life
The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston
Margaret Anderson publishes in Chicago the first issue of The Little Review, a monthly literary magazine
The Assemblies of God is established as the largest affiliation of Pentecostal churches
Martha, 29 years old and the last passenger pigeon in the world, dies in the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio
The American writer Amy Lowell publishes an Imagist collection of poems, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
The sculptor Constantin Brancusi has his first one-man exhibition, at Stieglitz's gallery in New York
The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry
Charlie Chaplin introduces his most famous character, the little tramp, in Kid Auto Races at Venice
More than 30,000 troops in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sail to fight with Britain
Alexander Graham Bell again summons his assistant Thomas Watson (as in 1876), but this time he is in New York and Watson in San Francisco
Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson loses his title, in the 26th round, to the "Great White Hope", Jess Willard
The Corning Glass Company launches Pyrex, a new range of heat-resistant kitchen ware made from borosilicate glass
D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation has its premiere in New York
Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Thomas Edison invents a machine to record telephone conversations, calling it the telescribe
American campaigner for birth control Margaret Sanger publishes a controversial pamphlet, Family Limitation
Charlie Chaplin makes The Tramp, giving prominence to the famous character he launched the previous year in Kid Auto Races at Venice
