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The first composition know of ragtime was created from the pianist Tommy Turpin. The composition was called Harlem Rag.
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the cinema was born
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The first rag composition printed was a composition with piano.
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Felix Hoffmann patents Aspirin this year
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A cutting contest (a colloquial term for music competition) for ragtime pianists is held at New York's Tammany Hall.
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Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Scott Joplin publishes The Entertainer: a Ragtime Two-Step, which would become a popular hit nearly 70 years later.
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Wright brothers made the first flight and they moved 37 meters in 12 seconds (10.9km / h)
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Irving Berlin records Alexander's Ragtime Band, which becomes a hit but is scorned by ragtime purists.
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Scott Joplin dies; he was the best pianist playing ragtime. The classic era of ragtime ends.
