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Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
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Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor.
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The decision was made to hold the modern olympics every 4 years.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896.
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Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings.
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1st games played in baseball's American League.
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The first Teddy Bear was introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom.
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There are 9 hour work days for diamond miners.
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The world's 1st air force established (US Army).
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For the first time a ball drops at Times Square to signal a new year.
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The first US postage stamps in rolls are issued.
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The US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910.
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The first old-age home opens in Prescott, Arizona.
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Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment).
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The first seaworthy ship goes through the Panama Canal.
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Fitzgerald drops out of Princeton for remainder of junior year.
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The first US national women's swimming championships are held.
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On academic probation and close to flunking out of Princeton, Fitzgerald takes a commission as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He never graduates from Princeton. Soon after reporting for military duty, he begins a novel entitled The Romantic Egoist.
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World War I ends before Second Lieutenant Fitzgerald ever leaves the U.S. His failure to see foreign combat will forever be one of Fitzgerald's greatest regrets.
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This made the twenty-four year old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda Sayre in New York.
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Publication of Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald's first short story collection.
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The Fitzgeralds' first and only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. The next month the family moves to St. Paul and lives there until June.
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The Beautiful and Damned is published.
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The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later.
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The publication of “The Last of the Belles” in The Saturday Evening Post.
