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President William Mckinley was shot fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully flew a glider, which would lead them to invent the first plane.
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An Earthquake in San Francisco destroys about 80% of the city. 3,000 casualities took place.
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The stocks dropped 50% and set the US Banks into a bankruptcy panic.
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President Howard Taft is elected the President of the United States.
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The supreme court puts a stop to John D. Rockefeller's molopoly schemes.
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A terrible fire in the Triangle Waistshirt Company building led to numerous fatalities because work conditions did not allow a way out of the building in the case of a fire. Many peoples ended up jumping from 8 to 10 storys high.
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The Titanic goes down.
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President Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States
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The Central Allies and the Tripple Entente go to war against eachother.
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The USA joins the Allied Forces in WWI.
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The war was ended with the Treaty of Versailles.
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The USA turned against alcohol and banned it through the 18th ammendment.
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The US adopted the 19th ammendment.