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Panama Canal Opens to Traffic
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Wilson's second inauguration.
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US enters WWI
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Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor.
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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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President Wilson suffers a stroke
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Treaty of Versailles, outlining terms for peace at the end of World War I, is rejected by the Senate.
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Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th president.
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Harding signs resolution declaring peace with Austria and Germany.
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President Harding dies suddenly. He is succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge.
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Coolidge's second inauguration.
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Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st president.
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Stock market crash precipitates the Great Depression.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
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Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
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Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution, moving the president's inauguration date from March 4 to Jan. 20.
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Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president.
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New Deal recovery measures are enacted by Congress.
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Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition.
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Social Security Act is passed.
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F. Roosevelt's second inauguration.
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Fair Labor Standards Act is passed, setting the first minimum wage in the U.S. at 25 cents per hour.
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U.S. declares its neutrality in European conflict.
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F. Roosevelt's third inauguration. He is the first and only president elected to a third term.
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Japan attacks Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines.
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US declares war on Japan.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; U.S. reciprocates by declaring war on both countries.
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F. Roosevelt's fourth inauguration
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President Roosevelt dies of a stroke and is succeeded by his vice president, Harry Truman.
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Germany surrenders unconditionally.
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First atomic bomb is detonated at Alamogordo, N.M.
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Japan agrees to unconditional surrender.
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United Nations is established.