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Theodore Roosevelt
Elected vice president of the United States. -
The Platt Amendment is passed.
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King C. Gillette
Began selling razor blades. -
The island of Cuba gains independence from the United States,
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Henry Ford.
Founder of Ford Motors incorporates -
The Wright Brothers.
Inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright succeed in the first sustained and manned plane flight, taking the heavier-than-air machine through the winds of Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina, and man into an age of flight. The plane, mechanically propelled with a petroleum engine, flew 120 feet in 12 seconds, and later the same day, flew 852 feet in 59 seconds. They would patent the Airplane three years later on May 22, 1906. -
Ford Model B is produced.
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Battle of Port Arthur
The battle gegan. -
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The San Francisco Earthquake
he San Francisco earthquake occurs, estimated at 7.8 on the Richter scale. Its proximity to the epicenter of the San Andreas Fault and the subsequent fire that followed the quake and aftershocks left 478 reported deaths, although estimates in the future peg that figure at nearly 3,000. Between $350-$400 million in damages were sustained. Refugee camps were constructed at twenty-one sites throughout the city, including the Presidio, Fort Point, and Golden Gate Park. -
The Pure Food and Act Drug and Meat Inspection Act is passed
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Ford builds the first Model T car
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William Howard Taft.
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NAACP form.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Second NAACP conference held.
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New Mexico is the 47th state admitted to the union
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Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
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The 17th Amendment is Ratified
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Alice Paul
Organized the Women's Suffrage march. -
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WW I begins
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Germany declares War on Russia.
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First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated.
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Piggly Wiggly
The first supermarket opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Jeannette Rankin.
First woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives -
The 18th Amendment is Ratified.
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Flu pandemic of 1918
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Time zones are established.
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United Parcel Service forms
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Signing of the Peace Treaty
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Congress passes the Volstead Act
On October 28, 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act providing for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified nine months earlier. -
the 19th Amendment is Ratified
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Wall Street bombing occurred
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Warren G. Harding
Elected as the 29th President of the United States.
