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On April 1896 the first modern Olympic game are held in Athens, Greece. (https://www.britannica.com/event/Athens-1896-Olympic-Games) -
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896 (https://www.britannica.com/summary/F-Scott-Fitzgeralds-Important-Works) -
Work on the New York subway begins on the first section from City Hall to the Bronx in the year 1900. (https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1900to1909.html) -
On May 21, 1901, Connecticut becomes the first state to pass a law regulating motor vehicles, limiting their speed to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads. (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/connecticut-enacts-first-speed-limit-law#:~:text=On%20May%2021%2C%201901%2C%20Connecticut,15%20mph%20on%20country%20roads.) -
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace on December 10, 1901. (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-nobel-prizes-awarded) -
The Ford Motor Company is established in Detroit, Michigan by Henry Ford on June 16,1903. (https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/henry-ford-biography.html#:~:text=On%20June%2016%2C%201903%2C%20Henry,stock%20in%20the%20new%20organization.) -
On October 1, 1903, the Boston Americans (soon to become the Red Sox) of the American League played the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. Pittsburgh won the game by a score of seven to three, but lost the best-of-nine series to Boston, five games to three. (https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/october-01/) -
Oklahoma enters the union. In 1907, Congress decided to admit Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory into the Union as a single state. (https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/oklahoma#:~:text=On%20September%2017%2C%201907%20the,as%20the%20forty%2Dsixth%20state.) -
Businessmen in Hawaii believed that further construction at Pearl Harbor would benefit trade and economic development on the islands, while others recognized the necessity of a more developed Naval presence for American ascendancy in the Pacific. (https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/construction-pearl-harbor-naval-base) -
When F. Scott Fitzgerald was 13, he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the St. Paul Academy school newspaper. (https://www.biography.com/writer/f-scott-fitzgerald) -
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. (https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1910to1919.html) -
Ray Harroun drives his single-seater Marmon Wasp to victory in the inaugural Indianapolis 500. (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-indianapolis-500-held#:~:text=On%20May%2030%2C%201911%2C%20Ray,most%20famous%20motor%20racing%20competitions.) -
Fitzgerald enters Princeton University and writes for The Princeton Tiger, the school’s humor magazine. He eventually flunks out, however and leaves. (Image: https://www.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/half_2x/public/images/2020/06/20170816_CL_DJA_152%281%29.jpg?itok=gk_-O3D3) (Source: https://www.britannica.com/summary/F-Scott-Fitzgeralds-Important-Works)
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World War One started on July 28, 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. (https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history) -
Fitzgerald joined the army in 1917 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. (https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald) -
New Mexico became the 47th state to welcomed to the Union. (https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/nm-az-statehood#:~:text=For%20both%20New%20Mexico%20and,their%20100th%20anniversaries%20in%202012.) -
Fitzgerald met Zelda (his future wife) at a weekend dance country club as he was in the Army as an officer and stationed at nearby Camp Sheridan. (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zelda-Fitzgerald) -
World War One ended on November 11, 1918 after Allied and German officials at the signing of the armistice that ended the fighting in World War I (https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/The-end-of-the-German-war) -
F. Scott Fitzgerald writes and publishes his first novel Called This Side of Paradise. It was an instant success. (https://www.britannica.com/topic/This-Side-of-Paradise) -
On April 3,1920 Francis Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zelda-Fitzgerald) -
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald had their first child on October 26, 1921, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Their child was a girl and they named her Frances Scott Fitzgerald. (https://owlcation.com/humanities/Frances-Scott-Scottie-Fitzgerald-1921-1986) -
Beer Hall Putsch was an attempt by Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic. (https://www.britannica.com/event/Beer-Hall-Putsch) -
Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925. The book when first published was not popular and wouldn't become popular until after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death. (https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Great-Gatsby) -
Mickey Mouse made his first public debut in the black-and-white film short Steamboat Willie. (https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/mickey-mouse-turns-90) -
Francis Scott Fitzgerald Died due to a heart attack (caused by his heavy alcohol drinking) on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California, at the age of 44. (https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald)
