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The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society is founded.
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Thomas Edison gains the right to patent the kinetoscope, which is a motion picture camera that can show movies.
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First use of x-rays to treat breast cancer.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Fredholm develops his theories of integral equations.
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Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Soctt Fitzgerald's wife is born in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The Eastman Kodak Company introduced its Brownie camera, a point-and-shoot, handheld camera that was also cost effective.
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The six territories of Australia came together to form the Commonwealth of Australia.
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On this day, U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz when he shot him twice.
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The first license plates were issued in the U.S. in the state of Massachusetts.
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Albert Einstein proposed his theory of relativity, which explained that the speed of light was constant but both time and space were relative to the observer.
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A great earthquake rattled the area of San Francisco, California which devastated the city and killed many people.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy from 1908 to 1910.
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The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is founded.
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On this day, the famous painting Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci was stolen.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald attended Newman School from 1911 to 1913.
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Oreo cookies were introduced.
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The Titanic sunk after it hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and over 15,000 people died.
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Seven states adopted anti-liquor laws, which included the ban of manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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The U.S. delcare war on Germany and join WWI.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald joins the U.S. Army.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald met and fell in love with eighteen year old Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama when he was stationed in the U.S. Army.
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Fitzgerald's publication of "This Side of Paradise" made him a sensation overnight.
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Francis Scott (Scottie) Fritzgerald is born as the only child of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald.
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In the fall, the Fitzgeralds moved to Great Neck, Long Island to be near Broadway.
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Fitzgerald, his wife, and his daughter move to the French Riviera for a change of pace and scenery. This is where he writes The Great Gatsby the next year.
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While in Rome, F. Scott Fitzgerald revised The Great Gatsby.
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Zelda Sayre has an affair with a French naval aviator officer, damaging her marriage with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Stock prices plummeted, people started selling their stocks, and margin calls were sent out. All of this was a large contributing factor to the start of the Great Depression during 1930's.
