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July 13, 1890: John C. Frémont, American explorer and political figure, died in New York City at the age of 77. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Artist Vincent Van Gogh died in France at the age of 37 after shooting himself two days earlier. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Grover Cleveland won the U.S. presidential election, becoming the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Thomas A. Edison finished building his first motion picture studio. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Rutherford B. Hayes, who became president following the disputed election of 1876, died in Ohio at the age of 70. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
The U.S. 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 following the crackdown on the Pullman Strike. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Abolitionist author Frederick Douglass died in Washington, D.C. at the age of 77.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem.
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His sister, Annabel was born in 1901. https://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/ -
Theodore Roosevelt became president after the assassination of William McKinley. https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/theodore-roosevelt -
World War 1 started after the assassination of Francis Ferdinand. https://www.preceden.com/timelines/168121-1890-1950 -
On academic probation and unlikely to graduate, Fitzgerald joined the army in 1917 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry.
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This war was an opportunity for women to improve their social, economic, and political status. https://www.preceden.com/timelines/168121-1890-1950 -
The Russian Revolution destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. https://www.preceden.com/timelines/168121-1890-1950 -
In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama. There he fell in love with a celebrated belle, eighteen-year-old Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge.
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This was the first novel he ever published. The publication of This Side of Paradise on March 26, 1920 made the 24-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda Sayre in New York.
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Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre got married. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zelda-Fitzgerald -
The Great Gatsby, third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Great-Gatsby -
The world's banking system fell apart for about 10 years.
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It was not until 1934 that Fitzgerald published his next book Tender is the Night. https://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/ -
He moved there in 1938, having fallen in love with writer and movie critic Sheilah Graham. https://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/ -
Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and Britain and France declared war. https://www.preceden.com/timelines/168121-1890-1950 -
Scott Fitzgerald died from a heart attack.
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Part of World War 2, due to Nazi racism towards European Jews. https://www.preceden.com/timelines/168121-1890-1950