Timeline January 1914

Events in January 1914 3

• 1914 Australian Open 1914 Men: Arthur O'Hara Wood
• 1914 The Wilderness of Zin survey Negev, Ottoman Palestine An archaeological survey of the Negev that doubled as a military mapping exercise for the British Army, with the excavation providing cover.
• 1914 First scheduled commercial airline flight The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line begins service in Florida Pilot Tony Jannus flew a Benoist airboat carrying a single paying passenger across Tampa Bay, inaugurating the world's first scheduled airline using a fixed timetable. The short-lived line proved that regular passenger air travel was commercially viable. It is widely cited as the birth of the airline industry.