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McKinley's second inauguration
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McKinley's is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone
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Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C
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Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration.
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San Francisco earthquake leaves 500 dead or missing and destroys about 4 sq mi of the city
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William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president
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Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president.
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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World War I
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First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated
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Wilson's second inauguration
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U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) for $25 million.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany
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Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes
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Armistice ending World War I is signed
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League of Nations meets for the first time; U.S. is not represented
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Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote
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Treaty of Versailles, outlining terms for peace at the end of World War I, is rejected by the Senate