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The first Abraham Lincoln penny is made. The picture features the back of the Lincoln penny.
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China abolishes slavery (well not completely, it really ended in 1906, but the young workers were kept until they reached the age of 25, basically meaning that this is the year that the last of the chinese slaves were freed).
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Italy declared war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War.
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Arizona became the 48th state of the United States.
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Gandhi is arrested after leading the march through South Africa.
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United States President Wilson declared Mother’s Day.
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Theodore W. Richards is the first American to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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the first supermarket “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee.
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about 20,000 women march in the Women's-Suffrage parade in New York.
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101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee.
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two billion gallons of molasses flood in Boston, MA, drowns 21 people.
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Czechoslovakia adapts its own constitution to separate from Germany and the USSR.
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1921- On July 29th, Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialists Workers Party (known as the Nazi Party).
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Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations, he rails against the 'Jewish sell-out' of Germany to the Bolsheviks (Russian for ‘One of the Majority).
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Beer Hall Putsch: Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die, Hitler Flees.
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