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The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in South Dakota when U.S. Cavalry troopers fired on Lakota people who had gathered. The killing of hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children essentially marked the end of Native American resistance to white rule in the West.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
America declared war on Spain after the American battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in the harbor at Havana, Cuba
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The first two-way wireless communication between Europe and the United States is accomplished by Guglielmo Marconi when he transmits a message from President Theodore Roosevelt to the King of England from a telegraph station in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
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From 1900 the Wright brothers completed early tests with gliders and designed the machine and engine that would make them famous: the Wright Flyer. On the 17th December 1903, in North Carolina, it first took to the skies during a series of flights, in which the brothers took turns and witnesses looked on.
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This car revolutionized travel worldwide and was affordable, reliable, and freely available to the middle classes. The Model T became the first mass-produced car, selling millions in its first 20 years, and changing the automobile industry forever.
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At the age of 14, F. Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" in the student publication St. Paul Academy Now and Then. -
The seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislatures.
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The United States entered WW1 by officially declaring war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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On academic probation and close to flunking out of Princeton, Fitzgerald takes a commission as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 at the Palace of Versailles in Paris at the end of World War I, codified peace terms between Germany and the victorious Allies.
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The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor.
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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Fitzgerald quits advertising, moves in with his parents in St. Paul and goes to work rewriting The Romantic Egoist. Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribners accepts the new manuscript—now entitled This Side of Paradise—on 16 September.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920. Scott and Zelda had a tumultuous relationship, characterized by excessive drinking, partying, and fighting. https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald -
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald is born in October 1921, making her Fitzgerald's first and only child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Scott_Fitzgerald#:~:text=Frances%20Scott%20%22Scottie%22%20Fitzgerald%20(,Fitzgerald%20and%20Zelda%20Sayre%20Fitzgerald. -
Fitzgerald's second collection of shorts contains one of his most famous short stories "The Diamond As Big As the Ritz". His second novel, also adapted to the screen, was published the same year, The Beautiful and The Damned (1922).
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In 1925, The Great Gatsby was published and hailed as an artistic and material success for its young author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is considered a vastly more mature and artistically masterful treatment of Fitzgerald's themes than his earlier fiction.
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The stock market crashes, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
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The 21st Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, repealing prohibition and making alcohol legal once again. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
Tender Is the Night, semiautobiographical novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1934. It is the story of a psychiatrist who marries one of his patients; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé (“a used-up man”).
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Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 at the age of forty-five, leaving his final novel, The Last Tycoon, unfinished. https://www.loc.gov › item › september-24 -
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
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On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki -
Having agreed in principle to an unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrendered on September 2nd, marking the end of World War II. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/world-war-ii-key-dates