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Important Dates of History

By Eleanor
  • Frank L. Baum publishes The Wizard of Oz.

    Frank L. Baum publishes The Wizard of Oz.

    The Wizard of Oz was published by the George M. Hill company.
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  • Assassination of President McKinley

    Assassination of President McKinley

    Fataly wounded inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo
  • The film "The Great Train Robbery" is released

    The film "The Great Train Robbery" is released

    Written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter
  • The Wright Brothes make there first flight

    The Wright Brothes make there first flight

    Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to fly a powered airplane
  • Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair was a journalist, socialist, and polotician
  • San Fransisco Earthquake

    San Fransisco Earthquake

  • Roosevelt Panic

    Roosevelt Panic

    All the banks closed down
  • NAACP is founded

    NAACP is founded

    Goal: make all races of people equal.
  • Howard Taft elected 27th President of the United States

    Howard Taft elected 27th President of the United States

    Taft graduated from Yale, and was hand picked by Roosevelt.
  • Triangle Waistshirt Company Fire

    Triangle Waistshirt Company Fire

    4th highest casualties from industrial accident
  • Standard Oil monoply is dissolved

    Standard Oil monoply is dissolved

    Taft topples Standard Oil wich owned 90 percent of the market.
  • Sinking of the Titanic

    Sinking of the Titanic

    Collided with an iceburg, 1,500 died.
  • Woodrow Wilson elected 28th President of the United States

    Woodrow Wilson elected 28th President of the United States

    President after Taft
  • World War 1 begins

    World War 1 begins

    sparked by Franz Ferdinand's assasination
  • Panama Canal Opens

    Panama Canal Opens

    Allowed control of the US empire.
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

    The Lusitania was shot by a U-boat
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    the fist amendment to set a time delay before it took effect
  • US enters WW1

    US enters WW1

    More than 2million U.S. souldiers fought on battlefields in France
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    Ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers
  • 19th Amendment (Womens Suffrage)

    19th Amendment (Womens Suffrage)

    the constitution allowed the states to determine the qualifications for voting.