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congress passed a resolution recognizing Cuban independence and demanded that Spain relinquished authority over Cuba. President Mckinley was also authorized to use military force to put the resolution into effect.
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A large group of New York city newsboys refused to distribute the news papers of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the World, and William Randolph Hearst, Publisher of the Journal The strike was for them to get more money.
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President William McKinley wins his second term as president.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo New York while shaking hands with fair visitors. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz is arrested, the president dies from the wounds a week later.
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A ten million dollar gift from Andrew Carnegie leads to the formation of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC.
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William and Orville Wright succeed in the first sustained and manned flight, through the winds of Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina. The plain flew 120 feet in 12 seconds, and later the same day flew 852 feet in 59 seconds.
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The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls is opened by Mary McLeod Bethune in Daytona, Florida. Bethune is known as a leading contributor to the education of African-American students.
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In the ruling of Lochner vs. New York, the ten hour work day law and sixty hour work week law for bakers is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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President Theodore Roosevelt grants protection to Indian ruins and authorizes presidents to designate lands with historic and scientific features as national monuments. This is known as the Antiquities Act.
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The first Native American Senator, Charles Curtis, from Kansas, takes office.
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The first passenger flight on a plane occurs when Wilbur Wright escorts Charles W. Furnas in the Wright Flyer lll at Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton Ohio.
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The troops of the United States leave Cuba for the first time since the beginning of the Spanish-American War.
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The United States Bureau of Mines is authorized by an act of the United States Congress.
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Standard Oil is declared an unreasonable monopoly by the United States Supreme Court and ordered dissolved under the powers of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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The United States Marines are sent to action in Nicaragua due to its default on loans to the United States and its European allies.
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The 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg commemorates the Civil War battle. It draws thousands of remaining veterans of the battle and their families to the site of the Gettysburg Address and the northernmost battle of the war.
