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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. Fitzgerald's names indicated his parents pride in his father's ancestry.
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On February 3, 1913, just one month before the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson, the Sixteenth Amendment was formally accepted into the Constitution. With the income tax provision outlined in the new amendment, the Revenue Act of 1913 was soon after enacted into law by Congress.
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On December 1, 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes.
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The first commercial transcontinental phone line opened on Jan. 25, 1915, with a call from New York to the site of San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Alexander Graham Bell made the call to his assistant, Thomas Watson.
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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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Meanwhile, fate, in the form of the U.S. army, stationed him near Montgomery, Alabama in 1918, where he met and fell in love with an 18-year-old Southern belle - Zelda Sayre.
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On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I.
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Ratified on January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors".
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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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Fitzgerald achieved fame almost overnight with the 1920 publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise.
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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. They embarked on an extravagant life as young celebrities.
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On August 20, 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote.
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When Zelda Fitzgerald became pregnant they took their first trip to Europe in 1921 and then settled in St. Paul for the birth of their only child, Frances Scott (Scottie) Fitzgerald, who was born in October 1921.
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Fitzgerald's novel was released to the public on April 10, 1925. Selling only 21,000 copies in its first year which was frustrating for Fitzgerald.
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The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the economic expansion of the Roaring Twenties came to an end. A series of financial crises punctuated the contraction.
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred on October 29, 1929, when Wall Street investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.
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The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer.
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Amelia Earhart (1897–c. 1937) was an American aviator, who became well-known in 1928 when, as a member of a three-person crew, she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an aircraft. In 1932 she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/amelia-earhart-on-her-solo-flight#:~:text=Amelia%20Earhart%20(1897%E2%80%93c.,fly%20solo%20across%20the%20Atlantic. -
Although the Constitution has been formally amended 27 times, the Twenty-First Amendment (ratified in 1933) is the only one that repeals a previous amendment, namely, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), which prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.”
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Fitzgerald published his fourth novel Tender is the Night in 1934. His most ambitious novel was a commercial failure, and its merits were matters of critical dispute.
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He began his Hollywood novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, in 1939 and had written more than half of a working draft when he died of a heart attack in Graham’s apartment on December 21, 1940.
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941.
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The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest invasion force in human history.
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/world-war-ii-d-day-invasion-normandy#:~:text=The%20D%2DDay%20operation%20of,invasion%20force%20in%20human%20history. -
World War II, which began in 1939 and ended in 1945, was the deadliest and most destructive war in history. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/explore-wwii-history#:~:text=World%20War%20II%2C%20which%20began,going%20through%20the%20Great%20Depression. -
On April 12, 1945, the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died in Georgia.
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