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Married Bess Madern
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The Brownie camera was the first hand-held camera that was cheap enough and simple enough for even children to use, making photography accessible to the masses.
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Boxer Rebellion (1900): Beginning in 1898, groups of peasants in northern China began to band together into a secret society known as I-ho ch'üan ("Righteous and Harmonious Fists"), called the "Boxers" by Western press. Members of the secret society practiced boxing and calisthenic rituals (hence the nickname, the "Boxers") which they believed would make them impervious to bullets.
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On the evening of July 30, anarchist Angelo Bresci shot the king of Italy, King Umberto I, three times
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Daughter Joan is born
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Queen Victoria was the longest reigning British monarch in history, ruling the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901
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Five years after Alfred Nobel's death, the first five Nobel Prizes were awarded.
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arrives in England to research and write a book called, The People of the Abyss
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Although New York was the first state to require automobiles have license plates (1901), these plates were made by individual owners (with the owner's initials)
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the 12-minute-long silent film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was the first narrative movie, one that told a story
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As founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903, suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst brought militancy to the British suffrage movement in the early twentieth century
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Orville Wright flew the Flyer for 12 seconds over 120 feet of ground
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Jack and Bess got divorced
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London married Charmian Kittredge
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pays $500.00 down on Hill Ranch
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In 1906, U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt tried to get the government to simplify the spelling of 300 common English words
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At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a large earthquake hit San Francisco.
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returns from honeymoon in Jamaica
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At 7:14 a.m. on June 30, 1908, a giant explosion shook central Siberia
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After being agreed upon at the 1906 conference, the Morse code signal of three dots, three dashes, and then three dots
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Jack and Charmian go to Sydney, Australia for medical treatment
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Leaves Australia by steamship
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Jack hires his stepsister Eliza London Shepard as ranch superintendent
