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Great Chicago fire
The Great Chicago fire happened in 1871 during the gilded age when everything was made by wood. There was a big drought and very bad pollution at the time. When the fire started in a barn it quickly spread to over 1,000 acres of land and killed about 300 people. -
Invention of a Car
The first motor car was invented in 1885 in Germany by Karl Benz. The car was called the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. The first car could go a max of 10 mph which would get passed by a horse. It would soon impact the future a lot by faster travel -
Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood in 1889 started by a dam that was left unattended. The dam released about 20 million tons of water into the valley below and destroyed thousands of homes and killed about 2,200. -
basketball
Basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891 for something to play indoors during the cold winter times. He set up 2 baskets that were on a different side of a floor and he told the kids he was teaching to make the ball into them. -
Modern Olympics
The first modern Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece from April 6-15, 1896.athletics (track and field), cycling, swimming, gymnastics, weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, shooting, and tennis were the first every games to be played at the Olympics -
Subway invented
The first subway opened in Boston that ran through a 1.5 mile tunnel under downtown Boston to keep the streets less crowded -
Great San Francisco Earthquake
The Great San Francisco Earthquake was a huge magnitude of 7.9 that destroyed the city and started huge fires around the city. -
Food and Drug Administration
The FDA prevented the manufacture sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious food, drugs, medications, and liquors -
Sinking of the Titanic
The sinking of the Titanic was a huge part in history because it was the largest ship and everybody thought that it was unsinkable until the started to go full speed in a ice burg watch and the ice burg skinned the entire side of the boat and it sank with in 2 hours and about 1,500 people died. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal was opened in August 15, 1913. It connected the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean. it has platforms that the boats go on and it would let in water to go up and let out water to go down. In total it would take about 8-10 hours to go through the Panama Canal.