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shot by anarchists Leon Czolgosz
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McKinley's second inauguration
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Mckinley dies from wound of the shot from Leon but is succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.
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U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone- TREATY SIGNED
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December 17
Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C. -
Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration.
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William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president
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Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president.
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislatures.
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First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Wilson's second inauguration.
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League of Nations meets for the first time; U.S. is not represented.
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Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor. It is later repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933.
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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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Wilson suffers a stroke
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Treaty of Versailles, outlining terms for peace at the end of World War I, is rejected by the Senate.