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New Mexico becomes the 47th state
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Frederick R. Law parachutes from the Statue of Liberty
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Arizona becomes the 48th state
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Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
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Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
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Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
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RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage
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RMS Titanic hits iceberg at 11:40 pm off Newfoundland
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Titanic sinks at 2:27 am off Newfoundland as band plays on
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The Cunard liner, RMS Carpathia brings survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York
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Fifth Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
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Massachusetts passes first U.S. minimum wage law
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Fifth Olympic games closes at Stockholm, Sweden
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District Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
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Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
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World's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
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Beginning of the first Balkan War- Balkan League vs. Ottoman Empire
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Woodrow Wilson defeats Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft
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Arizona, Kansas, and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
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The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California