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Vacuum Cleaner/ Puffing Billy
Hubert Cecil Booth invented the first successful vacuum cleaner. His first machine, 'Puffing Billy', had a 5 hp piston pump driven by a petrol/gasoline engine or electric motor. -
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Russo-Japanese War
War that pitted expansionist Russia against up-and-coming Japan. Russia sought warm-water ports and control of Manchuria, while Japan opposed them. War ended in Japanese victory. -
First Radio Broadcast
The first radio broadcast ever in the world's history was made by Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906 when he beamed a "Christmas concert" to the astonished crews of the ships of the United Fruit Company out in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. -
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World War I
Began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Ended with a defeat of the central powers. -
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Battle of Tannenberg
Battle fought during World War I (1914-1918). One of the few battles of maneuver from a conflict best known for static trench warfare, Tannenberg saw German forces in the east effectively destroy General Alexander Samsonov's Russian Second Army. Ended in a German victory. -
Battle of the Falklands
The Battle of the Falklands was fought during World War I (1914-1918). The squadrons engaged off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, resulting in HMAS Sydney defeating SMS Emden. -
Rebirth of the KKK
The rebirth of the KKK was inspired by the lynching of Leo Frank and the release of The Birth of the Nation, a popular and groundbreaking film that valorized the Reconstruction Era Klan as a protector of feminine virtue and white racial purity. -
United States presidential election of 1916
American presidential election in which Democratic incumbent Woodrow Wilson defeated Republican Charles Evan Hughes in the electoral college 277–254. -
Warren Harding Presidency
In the Unites States presidential election of 1920, Republican Warren G. Harding defeated Democrat James M. Cox in a landslide.