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Grover Cleveland was inaugurated as the 24th president of the United States for the second time. He already became the 22nd president from (1885 to 1889). (https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042) -
April 1896: The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens, Greece. Some of the sports that took place were track, fencing, wrestling, and tennis. (https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042) -
A month before the war was declared, The American battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in the harbor at Havana, Cuba, a mysterious event that will lead to the United States going to war with Spain. (https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042) -
On this day in 1900, President William McKinley signed the Gold Standard Act, which established gold as the sole basis for redeeming paper currency. The act halted the practice of bimetallism, which had allowed silver to also serve as a monetary standard. https://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/this-day-in-politics-088821#:~:text=On%20this%20day%20in%201900,serve%20as%20a%20monetary%20standard. -
The first working airplane was invented, designed, made, and flown by the Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948). Their “Wright Flyer” was a fabric-covered biplane with a wooden frame. The power to the two propellers was supplied by a 12-horsepower water-cooled engine. (https://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml) -
The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act was FDA's founding statute that was created in response to scandals in the meat-packing industry that were widely exposed in Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/pure-food-and-drug-act -
Henry Ford was an American automobile manufacturer who created the Model T in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the automotive industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous business leader. https://www.biography.com/business-figure/henry-ford -
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be “Prepared. For Life.®” The Scouting organization is composed of approximately 2.2 million youth members between the ages of 5 and 21 and approximately 800,000 volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories. https://www.scouting.org/about/ -
During 1911 - 1913he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he met Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged his ambitions for personal distinction and achievement. 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 -
It was first celebrated in Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany by over one million people who attended International Women’s Day rallies. The creation of the holiday was a result of socialist and labor movements that were campaigning for women’s rights. -
The Titanic was a luxury British steamship that sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg, leading to the deaths of more than 1,500 passengers and crew. https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/titanic -
Hiram Bingham finds Machu Picchu in the Andes. He had followed Simón Bolívar's route into Colombia and continued it with a walk from Argentina into Peru. He was a professor of history at Yale, and was performing the expedition as a member of that faculty. He was able to confirm its location on July 24th . He returned to excavate the site in 1912. It is near the western end of the Huatanay valley. https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1910to1919.html -
Fitzgerald attended prep schools in St. Paul and then in New Jersey, where his literary leanings first appeared in stories and plays he penned for student publications. In 1913, he entered Princeton University with the Class of 1917, beginning a period that would permanently shape his life and work.
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Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry. Convinced that he would die in the war, he rapidly wrote a novel, “The Romantic Egotist”; 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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Speakeasies, illegal taverns that sell alcoholic beverages, came to an all-time high during the Prohibition era in the United States from 1920 to 1933. These bars, which were also called blind pigs or blind tigers, were often operated by organized crime members. -
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46165.This_Side_of_Paradise -
His first novel made Scott rich within the year, and Zelda married him a week after its publication. As his wife, she embarked on a new life as a flapper - a freethinking woman with the world at her disposal.
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Scottie Fitzgerald was born in 1921 in St. Paul, Minn., her father's hometown, and traveled and lived with them in France and in New York - including in Great Neck, the ''West Egg'' on Long Island that was the little-disguised fictional locale of ''The Great Gatsby.''
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As a social historian, Fitzgerald became identified with the Jazz Age: “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” he wrote in “Echoes of the Jazz Age." Seeking tranquility for his work, the Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924.
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The Great Gatsby, third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Great-Gatsby
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Steamboat Willie is a Mickey Mouse cartoon that was released on November 18, 1928, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Ub Iwerks. This cartoon is notable for being both Mickey and Minnie's debut and also the start of a new era of American animated short subjects.https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Steamboat_Willie -
Much of the world was still in an economic slump after World War I. The collapse of the American economy was felt throughout the world, and by the early 1930 nearly every nation of the world experienced economic misery. The belief that external forces were the cause of each nation's economic problems led to the rise of fascism and nationalism throughout Europe, particularly in Italy and Germany. (https://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhGreatDepression.php) -
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history -
After The Great Gatsby is published, Fitzgerald’s drinking becomes excessive, and Zelda suffers a mental breakdown in 1930. She spends the next year in European clinics. After she is released in 1931, they move back to the United States. She has a second breakdown in 1932 from which she never fully recovers. She publishes her first and only novel, Save Me the Waltz, which is based on the Fitzgeralds’ troubled marriage.
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Tender Is the Night was written in a period of Fitzgerald's life when his wife, Zelda, was experiencing severe psychological problems, not unlike those of Nicole Diver. In the years following the book's publication, Fitzgerald's output diminished considerably due largely to his alcoholism.
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Following the unsuccessful Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. He died of a heart attack in 1940, at age 44, his final novel only half completed.
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