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28December 15, 2012THE MILITARY PRESS

• U.S. Marines occupy Veracruz, Mexico, intervening in civil war

to protect American interests

• The world’s first red and green traffic lights are installed in Cleveland

• World Series: Boston Braves d. Philadelphia A’s (4-0)

• Stanley Cup: Toronto Blueshirts (NHA)

• Kentucky Derby Champion: Old Rosebud

• NCAA Football Champions: Army (9-0-0)

Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut

Charles Chaplin makes his film debut in the comedy short Making a Living

The first everyday items made of stainless steel come into public circulation

• In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous character

• Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes published

• Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon

• George Washington Carver begins experimenting with peanuts as a new cash crop for Southern farmers

• The last known passenger pigeon dies in the Cincinnati Zoo

“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” – Woodrow Wilson

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

Events

• World War I begins: Austria declares war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany.

• Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophie assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip

• Panama Canal is officially opened after 10 years of construction

• Congress sets up Federal Trade Commission, passes Clayton Antitrust Act

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“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” – Charlie Chaplin

Remember When . . . 1914. Cost of LivingAverage house $6,156Average car cost $550Average wage was $577Dalton adding machine $125First class stamp 2 cents

Economics• Federal spending: $0.73 billion• Consumer Price Index: 10• Unemployment: 7.9%

Science• Nobel Prizes in Science• Chemistry: Theodore W. Richards (US), for

determining atomic weight of many chemical elements• Physics: Max von Laue (Germany), for discovery of

diffraction of Roentgen rays passing through crystals