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United States is Attacked in the Philippines
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William McKinley’s Second Election to the Presidency
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William McKinley Assassinated by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz
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United States Acquired the Panama Canal Zone Treaty
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Election as President of the United States
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William Howard Taft Elected President of the United States
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established
(fun fact: it was established on my birth date, 96 years before I was born) -
Woodrow Wilson Elected President
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified
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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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World War 1 Begins
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Panama Canal Opens to Traffic
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First Long Distance Telephone Service Between New York and San Francisco
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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Jeanette Rankin of Montana is the First Woman Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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Puerto Rico Becomes a U.S. Commonwealth
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United States Entry into World War 1
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Worldwide Spanish Flu Epidemic Strikes
(20 million dead worldwide and 500,000 in the US) -
Armistice Ended World War 1
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Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified
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Treaty of Versailles Signed
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US Joining of League of Nations is Denied in the US Senate
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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified
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President Harding Dies
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President Calvin Coolidge becomes President
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Charles Lindbergh First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight
(Spirit of the St. Louis) -
Herbert Hoover Elected President
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Stock Market Crash Marks the Beginning of the Great Depression
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Al Capone is Convicted of Tax Evasion
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Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President of the United States
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First New Deal Programs Enacted by FDR
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Hitler Comes to Power in Germany
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Civilian Conservation Corps Begins
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Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified
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John Dillinger's Shootout at Little Bohemia
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Bonnie and Clyde are Killed
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Works Progress Administration Begins
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Fair Labor Standards Act is Passed
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Kristallnacht in Germany
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U.S. Declares Neutrality at the Beginning of WWII
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WWII Begins with Germany’s Invasion of Poland
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Tripartite Pact is Signed Between Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
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United States Entry into WWII
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D-Day Invasion by American, British, and Canadian Troops
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Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Meet at Yalta
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Cold War is Termed and Begins Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Dies and Harry Truman Succeeded Him as President
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Victory in Europe Day
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U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
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U.S. drops Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
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Unconditional Surrender of Japan
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Victory Over Japan Day
(End of WWII) -
Presidential Succession Act Signed by President Truman
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Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin Accuses People of Communist Activities and Hearings Begin
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Korean War Begins
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Twenty Second Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified
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President Truman Removed General Douglas MacArthur as Head of the Far East Command
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President Eisenhower Elected President
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US Detonates its First Hydrogen Bomb
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Korean War Ends in an Armistice
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Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Decision Ends Segregation
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Russia Detonates its First Hydrogen Bomb
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Rosa Parks is Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama
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Martin Luther King, Jr and Others Set Up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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President John F. Kennedy is Elected President
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Bay of Pigs in Cuba
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Berlin Wall is Built in Germany
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President John F. Kennedy is Assassinated
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Civil Rights Act Signed
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March at Selma, Alabama
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Voting Rights Act Signed
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Edward W. Brooke Becomes First African American U.S. Senator
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Richard Nixon Elected President
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated
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Watergate Investigation Begins
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House Recommends Impeachment of Nixon
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Nixon Resigns as President
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Apple is Founded
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Jimmy Carter Becomes President of the United States
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Ronald Reagan Elected President of the United States
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Sandra Day O’Connor is Sworn in as the First Woman Supreme Court Justice
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Berlin Wall Torn Down
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Saddam Hussein Invades Kuwait
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Operation Desert Storm Begins
(Persian Gulf War) -
U.S.S.R. Collapses and Communism Comes to An End
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Yahoo is Founded
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Amazon is Founded
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Netflix is Founded
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Google is Founded
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Apple Debuts the iPod
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Twin Towers Attack
(9/11) -
Human Genome Project is Completed
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YouTube is Founded
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Barack Obama, the First African American US President is Elected
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Michael Jackson Dies
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Zoom Video Conferencing is Founded
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Donald Trump Elected President of US
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Cameron Boyce Dies
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Coronavirus Pandemic Begins