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Top Song(s)
• Alma Gluck - Carry Me Back to Old Virginney
• American Quartet - Chinatown, My Chinatown
• Alice Nielsen - Home Sweet Home
• George MacFarlane - A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call it Ireland)
• Jack Norworth - Kitty The Telephone Girl
Top Film(s)
• Les Vampires
• The Tramp
• The Champion
• The Birth of a Nation
• By The Sea
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery
• The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The 39 Steps - John Buchan
• Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Famous Deaths
• January 10 – Marshall Pinckney Wilder, American actor, humorist, comedian and monologist.
• February 22 – Sir John Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient.
• March 15 – George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier, inspiration for the "Lost Boys" of Peter Pan.
• April 20 – Daniel Webster Jones, American Latter-day Saint pioneer.
• April 27 - William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, English airman, first aviator awarded Victoria Cross.
• May 24 – John Condon, Irish private soldier in British Army, claimed as youngest British soldier to die in WWI.
• July 16 – Ellen G. White, American prophetess, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
• August 20 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• September 9 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player, sporting goods manufacturer.
• October 12 – Edith Cavell, British nurse, war heroine.
Medical/Science/Technology
• Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not classified as a planet.
• Einstein's new theory of general relativity is used to explain Mercury's strange motions.
• Robert Innes discovers Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth after the Sun.
• Thomas Lyle Williams produces the mascara Maybelline.
• Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangea.
• Trench nephritis is first reported as affecting soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders.
• Walter Bradford Cannon coins the term fight or flight to describe an animal's response to threats.
• Ada Hitchins' experimental results indicating that radium is formed by the decay of uranium are published.
• Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
• William Mills patents, develops and manufactures the Mills bomb, a hand grenade.
Political Events
• January 4 - 1st elected Jewish US governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho.
• January 12 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
• January 16 - Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin.
• January 18 – Charles Henderson is sworn in as the 35th governor of Alabama replacing Emmet O'Neal.
• January 28 – An act of the U.S. Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, as a military branch over 19 years.
• February 10 - US President Woodrow Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
• April 26 – Treaty of London: Italy secretly agrees to leave the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, and join with the Entente Powers.
• May 17 – The last purely Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends.
• October 19 – Mexican Revolution: The U.S. recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza de facto.
• December 18 – United States President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith B. Galt, in Washington, D.C.
National Events
• January 21 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
• January 26 – Rocky Mountain National Park is established.
• February 12 – In Washington, D.C. the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• March 3 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
• April 11 – Charlie Chaplin's film The Tramp is released in the United States.
• June 22 – The Imperial Valley earthquakes in Southern California, causing six deaths and financial losses of $900,000.
• July 28 – The United States occupation of Haiti begins.
• October 4 – Dinosaur National Monument is established.
• September 11 – The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia.
• December 10 – The 1 millionth Ford car rolls off the assembly line at the River Rouge Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
Worldwide Events
• January 26 - The Ottoman Army begins the Raid on the Suez Canal.
• May 7 – The RMS Lusitania is sunk on passage from New York to Britain by a German U-boat, killing 1,198.
• May 22 - Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland: The collision and fire kill 226, mostly troops.
• May 23 – WWI: Italy joins the Allies after declaring war on Austria-Hungary.
• May 25 – China agrees to the Twenty-One Demands of the Japanese.
• June 5 – Women's suffrage in national elections is introduced in Denmark.
• June 19 - The modern civil flag of Iceland is adopted officially.
• September 6 – The prototype military tank is first tested by the British Army.
• September 12 – French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
• November 25 – Albert Einstein presents part of his theory of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.