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Coal Strike
A coal-miners strike begins in Pennsylvania, during the course of which 140,000 workers would leave their jobs. -
Elkins Act passed
Congress approves the Elkins Anti-Rebate Act, making it illegal for railroads to give rebates on their published freight rates. -
Roosevelt inaugurated
Roosevelt is inaugurated for his first full term as President of the United States, it establishing the first eighteen national monuments, including Devils Tower, Muir Woods, and Mount Olympus. -
Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
The legislation calls for both an honest statement of food content on labels and for federal inspection of all plants engaging in interstate commerce. -
Taft inaugurated
Theodore Roosevelt leaves on a yearlong African safari in order to avoid charges that he was attempting to run the White House from the shadows.