The human voice, instead of morse code, was transmitted between Arlington, Virginia and the
Eiffel Tower in Paris, in the first international "radiotelephone" communication.
Americans' hostilities toward the Germans began to build after a German sub sank the U.K.'s
passenger ship The Lusitania, killing 1,198 persons, including 114 Americans and 64 babies. The
Secret Service arrested dozens of German-Americans when they discovered a spy & propaganda
ring operating out of the Hamburg-American Steam Line.
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson reenacted their historic first phone call from 1876 ...
only this time they were 3,100 miles apart. Bell said, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you" from
New York as Watson listened in San Francisco, in a ceremony marking the first transcontinental
telephone communication.
26,500 women marched for suffrage in New York City.
The Victor Talking Machine Company refined Edison's phonograph into its Victrola, with built-in
horn speaker and finished wooden encasement. Americans adopted the term "Victrola" to
describe record players.
The year's most popular song spelled out the word M-O-T-H-E-R.
