The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were founded in the US, Woodrow Wilson won the presidency, the Titanic sunk during its maiden voyage, Douglas Fairbanks made his US film debut, the world was at war and the telephone was born.
Read on to see what people were naming their babies in the 1910s.
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L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, President McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn into office, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company, San Francisco was rocked by the 1906 earthquake, and the feather boa was an insanely popular fashion accessory. Aviation was born... and so was the first federal income tax.
John F. Kennedy is elected to Camelot and a nation later grieves his assasination. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires the Civil Rights Movement. We put a man on the moon. Everyone is listening to The Beatles and the Grateful Dead. They're watching "The Monkees" and "Laugh In." The Vietnam War escalates and students protest. In the world of baby names, this is a big decade. For the first time in the 20th century, the name Mary is knocked off her perch as the #1 name for girls, displaced by Lisa, a name that wasn't even in the top 20 in the 1950s.
The US fights communism in Korea. At home, Americans prepare for the inevitable atomic bomb by building fallout shelters. Everyone's watching... television! They love Benny Hill, the Three Stooges, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and, of course, Lucille Ball. Everyone's listening to... rock and roll. Elvis Presley dominates the charts and Marilyn Monroe makes her big screen debut. 
The country is plunged into the Great Depression and, at its height, 13,000,000 are unemployed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to the Presidency. Everyone is singing I'm Popeye The Sailer Man and watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Little Women, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Benny Goodman's big band boogie-woogie ignited the swing craze among teenagers. The War of the Worlds terrifies a nation.
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