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Van Gogh shoots himself, dying two days later in France.
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Took place in South Dakota when U.S. Cavalry troopers fired on Lakota people who had gathered. The killing of hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children essentially marked the end of Native American resistance to white rule in the West. (https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042) -
Carnegie Hall opened in New York City. (https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042) -
Occurring in Western Pennsylvania, turned into a ferocious day-long battle between Pinkerton men and townspeople. (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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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. (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#:~:text=Scott%20Fitzgerald%20were%20aspiration%2C%20literature,author%20of%20the%20National%20Anthem.) -
The Klondike Gold Rush began in Alaska. (https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042) -
Newsboys in New York City went on strike for several weeks in a significant action related to child labor.
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The Galveston, Texas hurricane, with winds of 135 miles an hour, kills 8,000 people. It remains the most deadly natural disaster in American history. It was not named, during that era, and would have been a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale today. (https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1900.html) -
The first movie theatre in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California. It was known as the Electric Theatre. (https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1910.html) -
The only flight taken together by Wilbur and Orville Wright occurs at Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio. (https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1910.html) -
The American Girl Guides, renamed the Girl Scouts one year later, is formed in Savannah, Georgia.(https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1910.html) -
Fitzgerald enters Princeton University with the Class of 1917. He soon meets men who will remain lifelong friends and influences, including the writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. (https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/biography/f-scott-fitzgerald/timeline) -
Babe Ruth makes his major league debut.
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The United States government cuts diplomatic ties with Germany. The Zimmermann Telegram is given to the United States by Britain on February 24, showing the offer by Germany to give Mexico back the southwest United States if they would declare war on the United States.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre meet at a country club dance in Montgomery, Alabama. A month later the publisher Scribners rejects The Romantic Egoist but, sensing promise in the young writer, encourages Fitzgerald to revise it and try again. (https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/biography/f-scott-fitzgerald/timeline) -
World War I ends before Second Lieutenant Fitzgerald ever leaves the U.S. His failure to see foreign combat will forever be one of Fitzgerald's greatest regrets. (https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/chronology/index.php) -
Zelda Sayre breaks engagement with Scott Fitzgerald. (https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/chronology/index.php) -
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Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage. Also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, in recognition of her important campaign to win the right to vote. (https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1920.html) -
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The automatic commercial bread slicer was invented in 1927 by Otto Frederick Rohwedder from Iowa, USA (Rohwedder had worked on his machine since 1912). His machine both sliced and wrapped a loaf of bread. In 1928, the bread slicer was improved by Gustav Papendick, a baker from St. Louis, Missouri. (https://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml) -
Zelda suffered several breakdowns in both her physical and mental health, and sought treatment in and out of clinics from 1930 until her death (due to a fire at Highland Hospital in North Carolina in 1948). (http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html)
