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After a successful campaign run by John Muir and Robert Underwood, Yosemite officially became a national park. The land was first officially protected in 1864 but did not become a national park until 1890
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The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in South Dakota when U.S. troops fired on Lakota people. The killing of hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children essentially marked the end of Native American resistance to white rule in the West.
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The character Sherlock Holmes first appears in the magazine, "The Strand".
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Grover Cleveland is elected, being the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
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The 1893 World's Fair opens in Chicago.
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Congress designated the first Monday of September as a legal holiday, Labor Day, to mark the contributions of labor, in part as a peace offering to the labor movement
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The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens, Greece.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 to his parents, Edward and Mary.
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William McKinley was elected president of the United States, defeating William Jennings Bryan.
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The Klondike Gold Rush began in Alaska.
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American battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in the harbor at Havana, Cuba.
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The United States declares war on Spain after tensions in the Philipines
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Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" charge Spanish positions
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The population of the United States surpasses 75 million.
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Theodore Roosevelt is elected as the 26th president of the United States
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The Wright brothers completed the first successful flight in history.
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From 1911 to 1913, Fitzgerald attended the Newman School, a Catholic school in New Jersey. Here he would discover his passion for success.
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Fitzgerald graduates as a member of the class of 1917. He neglected his studies to pursue his literacy apprenticeship.
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Fitzgerald joins the Army as a commissioned second lieutenant. He was convinced that he would die in the war so he wrote "The Romantic Egoist", the letter of rejection from Charles Scribner’s Sons praised the novel’s originality and asked that it be resubmitted when revised.
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In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama.
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While at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald meets Zelda Sayre.
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After his discharge in 1919, he went to New York City to seek his fortune in order to marry. Unwilling to wait while Fitzgerald succeeded in the advertisement business and unwilling to live on his small salary, Zelda Sayre broke their engagement.
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In the fall/winter of 1919, Fitzgerald commenced his career as a writer of stories for the mass-circulation magazines.
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The publication of This Side of Paradise on March 26, 1920, made the 24-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight.
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The Fitzgeralds spent the winter of 1924-1925 in Rome, where he revised The Great Gatsby; they were en route to Paris when the novel was published in April. The Great Gatsby marked a striking advance in Fitzgerald’s technique, utilizing a complex structure and a controlled narrative point of view.
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