1914: Henry Ford announces that he will share the Ford Motor Co.'s profits with its workers by raising wages from $2.34 for a nine-hour day to $5.00 for an eight-hour day. He hopes his own workers will be able to afford to buy their own Fords; within two years, Ford goes on to produce its 1,000,000th car.

1906: The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a few months short of its tenth birthday, closes above 100 for the first time, finishing the day at 100.25.

John A. Prestbo, ed., The Market's Measure: An Illustrated History of America Told through the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones, New York, 1999), p. 56