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Theodore Roosevelt is born
President Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858. He was born in Manhattan, New York. -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
President Roosevelt became the 26th president when President McKinley was assassinated on September 6, 1901 -
Elkins Act passed
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
President Roosevelt proclaimed Pelican Island as the first national wildlife refuge in Indian River, Florida. It is 3 acres of land and 2.4 acres of water.
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Energy crisis
On October 3, 1902, the great coal strike brought worry to President Roosevelt when he thought the coal strike would shut down the mines.
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Wins first full term as President
President Roosevelt won his first full term as president on November 8, 1904. He first became president in 1901 after he assassination of President McKinley
cite- https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/the-progressive-era-1890-1917 -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.
Cite- https://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Legislation/ucm148690.htm -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument
Teddy Roosevelt claimed Devils Tower as the first national monument in the United States in 1892
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Leaves presidency, visits Africa
The party set sail from New York City on the steamer Hamburg on March 23, 1909, shortly after the end of Roosevelt's presidency. The party landed in Mombasa, British East Africa traveled to the Belgian Congo before following the Nile to Khartoum in modern Sudan. Financed by Andrew Carnegie and by his own proposed writings, Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
In the election of 1912, Roosevelt lost the election to Woodrow Wilson.
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Yosemite under Federal Control
In October, 1980, Yosemite became a national park.
Cite- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yosemite-national-park-established
