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Ford was the first company to sign a contract with them, again showing the impact that the Ford Motor Company has had throughout Detroit's history. Detroit Tigers baseball team win 1935 World Series defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2. The season was their 35th since they entered the American League in 1901. It was the first World Series ...
1783 The area that is now Michigan was included with the territory ceded by Great Britain to the United States by the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War. However, the U.S. did not take control of the territory until 1796. 1796 Detroit and other posts in Michigan were turned over to the United States under terms of the Jay ...
Detroit was the goal of various American campaigns during the Revolutionary War, but logistical difficulties in the American frontier and American Indian allies of Great Britain would keep any armed Patriot force from reaching the Detroit area. In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Great Britain ceded territory that included Detroit to the newly ...
The United States occupation of Veracruz, April 21, 1914 – November 23, 1914 The Panama Canal opens to shipping, August 15, 1914 The United States occupation of Haiti , July 28, 1915 – August 11, 1934
1914 – Mother's Day established as a national holiday; 1914 – Federal Trade Commission created; 1914 – Clayton Antitrust Act; 1914 – ABC Powers; 1914 – World War I begins when Austria–Hungary declares war on Serbia; 1915 – The Birth of a Nation opens; 1915 – RMS Lusitania sunk; 1915 – First transcontinental telephone is hooked up
The Port of Orange, Texas, is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy. The United States Power Squadrons is formed. Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Greek Department at the University of Chicago. Henry Ford sells 248,000 cars.
April 19 – The United States Senate initiates an official inquiry into the Titanic disaster, hastily issuing subpoenas for White Star personnel before they can return to the United Kingdom. April 20 – Baseball parks opened: Tiger Stadium (Detroit) as Navin Field. Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
The United States population had some semi-unique advantages in that they were former British subjects, had high English literacy skills, for that period, including over 80% in New England, had stable institutions, with some minor American modifications, of courts, laws, right to vote, protection of property rights and in many cases personal ...