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Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumes office as president of the United States, Following McKinleys death.
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February 8: A Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) starts the Russo-Japanese War
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October 1: The Ford Motor Company invents the Model T
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February 9–19: La Decena Trágica in Mexico City.
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August 1: The Chinese Civil War begins
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January 30: Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
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May 9: The birth control pill becomes commercially available
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November 4: Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, the oldest person to be elected
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August 2: Gulf War begins.
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July 16: John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash.