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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27,1858 at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan, New York City -
President William McKinley is shot at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY -
Threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities.The union had the support of roughly eighty percent of the workers in this area, or more than 100,000 strikers. Some 30,000 left the region, many headed for Midwestern bituminous mines; 10,000 men returned to Europe -
Championed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to end the practice of rebates.The Elkins Act gave federal courts the power to end rate discrimination. -
President Theodore Roosevelt established the first national wildlife refuge on March 14,1903. Pelican Island Reservation for protection of native birds -
Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic Nominee. Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right. -
Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove remained under state administration until 1906, when they were returned to federal control and incorporated in Yosemite National Park. In the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, Congress authorized presidents to proclaim permanent forest reserves on the public domain. -
Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce. Laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres made of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills. -
Teddy Roosevelt and his expeditionary party leaves New York for Africa -
Roosevelt grew frustrated with Taft's conservatism and belatedly tried to win the 1912 Republican nomination for president. He failed, walked out, and founded the new Progressive Party. The split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the election.