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Ferdinand von Zeppelin launches the first zeppelin.
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Quarantine of Chinatown in San Francisco after nine dealths blamed on bubonic plague.
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Death of Queen Victoria
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Pan-American Exposition and death of President William McKinley
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Electric washing machine is invented
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Alexis Carrel devises first organ transplant procedure.
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First Baseball World Series
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An outbreak of typhoid in Palo Alto due to contaminated milk sickens over a hundred people.
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Wright Brothers lift-off at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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1904 - Panama Canal begun
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In St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard
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After a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor Eugene Schmitz agrees to close San Francisco's "oriental schools" and allow Asian children to attend white schools. The San Francisco School Board ended the school segregation order the following month, but only for Japanese students on the basis that they are "not Mongolians."
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Bakelite, a nonflammable material used in engine parts, jewelry and electronics is invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland
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The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910 with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz.
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Angel Island opened as an official immigrant station
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The most famous of the periodic comets and can currently be seen every 75–76 years.
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Women in California are granted the right to vote by a narrow margin.
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Shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912, four days into the ship's maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history
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Henry Ford perfects mass productions of car motors and other objects by introducing the conveyor belt and assembly line
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Coolidge tube for medical X-rays invented.
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More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. The main combatants descended into a state of total war, pumping their entire scientific and industrial capabilities into the war effort. More than 15 million people were killed, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
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The Panama Canal is a ship canal which joins the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific ocean. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, it had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America.
