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The Wright brothers fly the first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor Company and begins building Ford automobiles
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An eAarthquake and a fire destroys most of San Francisco, California.
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Matthew Henson, an African American, becomes the first man to reach the North Pole.
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Coffee, a favorite American beverage sincethe Civil War, is now marketed in an "instant" form.
