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McKinley, William
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1900 - 2009
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Roosevelt, Theodore
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President William McKinley was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York, at the World's Fair.
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A landmark in the history of aviation, the Wright brothers make their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It lasted 58 seconds.
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A record 1.29 million immigrants enter the United States.
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Taft, William Howard
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White Star line steamer Titanic sinks on maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 14. 1503 people drown.
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Wilson, Woodrow
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WWI
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The United States passes the first Conscription Law (draft) since The Civil War on May 18.
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A devastating outbreak of influenza kills 20 million people worldwide, 548,000 of them in the U.S.
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Nineteenth Amendment gives U.S. women the right to vote.
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Harding, Warren Gamaliel
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Coolidge, Calvin
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U.S. Immigration rules ban Japanese.
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Chinese Civil War
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Hoover, Herbert Clark
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U.S. Stock Exchange collapses, economic crisis worldwide.
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Spanish Civil War
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Depression sweeps worldwide, leading to closing of all German banks
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Frances Perkins, new U.S. Secretary of Labor, becomes first female cabinet member
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
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World War II begins as France and England declare war on Germany
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WWII
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
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The Holocaust begins.
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Cold War
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Japan surrenders and WW II ends.
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Truman, Harry
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First Indochina War
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Korean War
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Last racial and ethnic barriers to immigration to U.S. removed
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Eisenhower, Dwight David
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Refusal of Rosa Parks to move to the back of a bus leads to Montgomery bus boycott
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Alaska and Hawaii admitted as the 49th and 50th states in the United States of America
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
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Lt. Col. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
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200,000 people marched on Washington to demand civil rights for all, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech
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Johnson, Lyndon Baines
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U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon
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Nixon, Richard Milhous
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The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing 18-year olds to vote, is ratified.
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Ford, Gerald Rudolph
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Unemployment rate in U.S. reaches 9.2%, highest in 34 years.
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America celebrates its 200th birthday.
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Carter, James Earl Jr.
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The first U.S. space shuttle, "Columbia," makes inaugural flight.
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Reagan, Ronald Wilson
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The U.S. becomes the world's biggest debtors, with a deficit of $130 billion.
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DNA evidence is allowed in some criminal trials.
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Bush, George Herbert Walker
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The "World Wide Web" started up for home use.
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Clinton, William Jefferson
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Republican Party wins control of U.S. Congress
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NASA's ‘Pathfinder' module lands on Mars.
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Twin Towers Fall
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Bush, George Walker
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Tsunami kills approx. 150,000
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Hurricane Katrina
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Obama, Barack Hussein