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The American Red Cross Created
The American Red Cross was incorporated by Clara Barton. -
Labor Day Celebrations
Labor Day celebrations were held in cities across America, with tens of thousands of workers participating in marches and other commemorations. -
The Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot was in Chicago and it took place when a bomb was thrown into a mass meeting called to show support for striking workers. -
The Wounded Knee Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in South Dakota when U.S. Cavalry troopers fired on Lakota Sioux who had gathered. -
St Patricks Day Parade
The St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City began using the traditional route up Fifth Avenue. -
Coxey's Army
Coxey's Army, a march to protest unemployment that was largely the result of the Panic of 1893, departed from Ohio on its way to Washington, D.C. -
The Klondike Gold Rush began in Alaska
Thousands of people dropped there jobs and buisnesses and went on ships to Alaska for the Klondike Gold Rush -
First Electric Washing Machine
Washing MachineFirst electrical washing machine built
Motor moved the tub and operated the machine http://www.prof.chicanas.com/98/?page_id=1210 -
First World Serires
This was a huge thing for all the baseball fans becuase it was know as being the greatest game of the year!
The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. -
First Windsheild Wipers
One day Mary Anderson noticed that when it rained cars wrere hard to see out of becuase of the rain on the wind sheild, she made an invention to stop this and improve safeness in automobiles -
NAACP Founded
NAACP
After a race riot in Springfield, Illinois in 1908, "The Call" went out to Northerners to find a way to create social equality. The National Assotiation For The Advancement Colored People -
The Titanic Sinks
The Titanic was a big voyage ship that was know as unsinkable, The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
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"Birth of a Nation" Silent Film
50 years after the Cival War a silent film called Birth of a Nation was made by D.W. Griffith. It was the greatest blockbuster of the silent era and was seen by nearly 200 million americans by 1946. -
Mickey Mouse
Mickeyu Mouse was an animated cartoon character created by Walt Disney and was a big hit in America. Mickey is the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He used to be called Steamboat Willie which was his short film -
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi
In the 1890s, his ideas took shape in 1895 when he sent a wireless Morse Code message to a source more than a kilometer away.
