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A man by the Name of Leon Czolgosz shot the president twice in the stomach at a rally in Buffalo New York. The President would pass aware 8 days later. His killer was sentenced to death. -
Orville and Wilbur Wright, brothers from North Carolina, created the first man-made flying object and successfully flew it for almost a minute. Today there are hundreds of thousands of planes, each capable of staying afloat for hours. -
A 7.9 scale earthquake ripped through San Franciso in the early morning. It started a massive fire that engulfed the city for days and killed over 3000 people. By the end, over 80% of the city was gone. -
The Ford Model T officially goes into production. Ford will use a new invention called the assembly line and redefine innovation. -
The RMS Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from England to New York. She had hit an iceberg, tearing a long gash in her hull and sinking the ship within 3 hours. Of the 2,200 people on board, 1500 died. -
The first true World War, featuring almost 30 different countries, resulted in the death of almost 15 million people, and millions more injured. Afterward, the world vowed to never again cause such devastation, but they would one-up themselves merely two decades later.
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After a decade of construction, the Panama Canal is completed. The canal cuts through central America, allowing ships to travel between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans much faster. -
The British ocean liner Lusitania is sunk by a German U-Boat. Among the many killed were 128 Americans. This angered many in the states, as they were neutral, and was a contributing factor in the decision to join the war two years later. -
After years of attempts at neutrality seem to be in vain, America decides to join the Great War. Large numbers of soldiers would arrive just in time to be the tipping point that the Allies so desperately needed. In the year and a half that America was involved, over 100,000 Americans would perish. -
The Spanish Influenza pandemic ravished the world in these years, Beginning in Kansas, it eventually spread across the globe and killed an estimated 25-50 million people, over 3 times that of the first world war.