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Thomas Edison opened up his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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Mark Twain published his novel, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
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Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call.
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Colorado became the 38th state and joined the Union.
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Crazy Horse led his warriors in their last fight with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain.
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Henry Ossian Flipper graduated from West Point Military Academy - becoming the first African American to graduate from there.
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The Nez Perce defeated the United States Cavalry at White Bird Canyon.
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Thomas Edison completed the first model for the phonograph and filed a patent for it.
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Chief Joseph and his tribe surrendered to the United States, thus ending the Nez Perce War.
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The Socialist Labor Party of North America held its first national convention.
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John Stevens applied for a patent for his invention - a flour rolling mill.
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The Department of Labor was created by the United States Congress.
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Frederick Douglass became the first African-American nominated for presidency in the United States.
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The Dakotas, Montana, and Washington join the union.
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Thomas Edison showed his first motion picture.
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Alice Sanger became the first female staff White House.
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The General Federation of Womens' Clubs was founded.
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Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Idaho became the 43rd state in the United States.
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Wyoming became 44th state in the United States.
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The United States Congress created the Weather Bureau.
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The United States Congress created the Courts of Appeal.
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The United States Congress created the Office of Superintendent of Immigration.
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The Wrigley Company is founded.
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The United States National Forest Service was organized.
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Thomas Edison patented his motion picture camera.
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The first meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was held.
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Ellis Island opens as a United States immigration inspection station.
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The General Electric Company was formed by merging Thomas Edison's General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company.
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The Sierra Club was created by John Muir and others,
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The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by the United States Congress.
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Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio.
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Diplomatic Appropriation Act authorized the United States rank of ambassador.
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The panic of 1893 caused a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Chinese were deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act.
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Henry Ford completed his first petrol/gasoline fuelled engine.
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Women in Colorado were granted the right to vote.
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Frederick Douglass passed away
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The first United States patent for the automobile was granted to George B. Selden for his two stroke automobile engine.
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Plessy versus Ferguson decision by the United States Supreme Court states that racial segregation is approved under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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The first Boston Marathon was run.
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The Klondike Gold Rush began.
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The first underground public transportation in North America opens in Boston.
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The blockade of Cuba began.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico was bombed by the American navy and Puerto Rico was taken over by the United States.
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The United States annexed the independent republic of Hawaii.
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The Peace Treaty ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
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The United States Congress approved the use of voting machines in federal elections.
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Under leader Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino independence fighters began a guerrilla war after failing to gain a grant of independence from the United States, which they had been fighting for from Spain since 1896.
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The Open Door Policy with China was declared.
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The President of the United States, William Mckinley, was shot and killed.
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The Wright Brothers made their first flight.
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The United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone.
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The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislatures.
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The Panama Canal opened to traffic.
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First long distance telephone service was demonstrated.
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The United States purchased Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) for $25 million.
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Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The United States entered World War I.
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First regular airmail service began.
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Armistice ending World War I was signed.
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Worldwide influenza epidemic struck.
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League of Nations mets for the first time. There was no representation of the United States.
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The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of liquor. It was later repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933.
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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, which granted women the right to vote.
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The Teapot Dome scandal broke as Senate launched an investigation into improper leasing of naval oil reserves during Harding administration.
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Tennessee passed a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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Charles Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane - The Spirit of St. Louis.
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The crash of the stock market precipitates the Great Depression.
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The Star-Spangled Banner was adopted as the national anthem.
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway became the first woman elected to the United States Senate (to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband). She was reelected in 1932 and 1938.
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Amelia Earhart completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
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The Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, moving the president's inauguration date from March 4th to January 20th.
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New Deal recovery measures were enacted by the United States Congress.
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Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, repealing Prohibition.
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The Works Progress Administration was established.
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The Social Security Act was passed.
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The Bureau of Investigation became the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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The Fair Labor Standards Act was passed - which set the first minimum wage in the U.S. at 25 cents per hour.
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The United States Congress approved and enacted the first peacetime conscription draft.
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The United States occupied Iceland, taking over its defense from Great Britain.
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A Japanese fighter plane launched a surprise attack on United States soil, destroying the United States Pacific Fleet docked at the base. The attack took the greatest amount of United States naval life in history. One day later, the United States of America declares war on Japan, officially entering World War II. On December 11, 1941, the United States declared war on Germany and Italy, responding to their declaration of war against America.