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Due to a decline in the New York stock market, the Panic of 1893 ensued. Farmers were some of the most affected because of debts and mortgage changes.
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The Duryea Brothers tested the first American gas-powered car in the United States. It was tested in Massachusetts.
https://www.thoughtco.com/duryea-brothers-automobile-history-1991577#:~:text=In%20March%201896%2C%20Charles%20and,automobile%2C%20the%20Duryea%20motor%20wagon. -
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896.
https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
The Wright Brothers fly the first ever controlled and powered aircraft in North Carolina.
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New York's underground subway system opened to the public.
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At an early age, Fitzgerald showed an interest in writing. His first piece of writing was published in his school paper.
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Standard Oil, one of the US's first major monopolies, is dissolved under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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In 1913, Fitzgerald got into Princeton University and channeled his love of writing through theater. He later dropped out.
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Fitzgerald enlisted in the US Army, becoming a second lieutenant in the infantry. He was discharged in 1919.
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In 1918, the 18th Amendment passed legislation, and was later ratified in 1919. It prohibited the sale and production of liquor in the US.
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Beginning in New Orleans, the Jazz Age was a period of new music, culture, and expression that lived alongside the Roaring 20's.
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Fitzgerald published his novel This Side of Paradise, which shot him into the spotlight and caused an influx of fame.
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Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre shortly after This Side of Paradise was published.
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The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage, and was ratified on August 18th, 1920, ending almost a century of protest. https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment-1 -
Fitzgerald and his family moved to Paris in 1921 and continued to move throughout Europe and the Eastern US for the next few years.
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Fitzgerald's third novel, The Great Gatsby, was published April 10, 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth designed the system that was used for the first ever broadcast of electric television in the US. The broadcast was done in San Francisco.
https://stephens.hosting.nyu.edu/History%20of%20Television%20page.html#:~:text=Electronic%20television%20was%20first%20successfully,electricity%20until%20he%20was%2014. -
In an edition of The New York Mirror, the first ever Mickey Mouse comic strip was released.
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In 1932, Zelda was permanently placed into mental care after being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1930. She died in one of the hospitals she was placed in.
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In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in the Presidential election. Roosevelt was responsible for higher taxation of the wealthy, new control over banks, and the introduction of Social Security.
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Fitzgerald moved to North Carolina and hopped between hotels, struggling to maintain a steady income. He then moved to California and occasionally visited his wife.
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In late 1940, Fitzgerald died of a heart attack.
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Japan launched an attack on a naval base in Honolulu. Congress declared war on Japan the next day.
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Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces in May, and Japan signed the ceremonial surrender document in September.
https://www.jbsa.mil/News/News/Article/616720/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-end-of-world-war-ii/#:~:text=On%20the%20morning%20of%20Sept,end%20of%20World%20War%20II. -
The first ever credit-card-like item was introduced by Diners Club. Owners of the card had to pay off the entire balance of the card each month.
https://www.creditkarma.com/credit-cards/i/credit-card-history#:~:text=The%20first%20credit%2Dcard%2Dlike,entire%20balance%20off%20each%20month.