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January[edit] Main article: January 1914 January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure.

January 5 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday, and a daily wage of $5.

January 8 – A railway strike is declared in the Transvaal and Orange Free State.

January 9 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African American students at Howard University, in Washington, D.C.

January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake on January 13. The lava flow causes the island which it forms to be linked to the Ōsumi Peninsula.