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1900-1909
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Queen Victoria died and is succeeded by her son, Edward VII
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President William McKinley shot
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First Rose Bowl game played
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Department of Commerce and Labor created
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Prussia becomes the first country to issue driving licenses
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Great Train Robbery movie opens
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Wright Brother built and flew biplane
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Russo-Japanese War begins
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Long Acre Square in Manhattan, New York, was renamed Times Square
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President Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated for his second term
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Niagara Falls conference
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Underground Fire in France
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Susan B. Anthony dies
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San Francisco earthquake and three-day fire; more than 500 dead
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The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act is passed
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beginning of the Financial Panic and Depression of 1907
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Oklahoma becomes a state
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Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst industrial accident in American history
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William Howard Taft is elected President
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First Men to Reach The North Pole, Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A
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1910-1930
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The Discovery of Machu Picchu
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Sinking of the Titanic
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16th Amendment was ratified
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Austria-Hungary had declared war on Serbia
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Lusitania sunk by torpedo
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The Battle of Jutland
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The first flights for the new U.S. airmail service
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18th Amendment / Prohibition
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The League of Nations is established
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The American Professional Football League is formed
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Emergency Quota Act established
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The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City
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Reader's Digest is founded
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Warner Brothers Pictures is incorporated
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President Warren G. Harding dies in office
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The Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial begins
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Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President
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The first flight to the North Pole and back
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First success in the invention of television
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
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1930-1950
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Empire State building opens in NYC
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Stimson Doctrine
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FDR sworn in as president
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Indian Reorganization Act established
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The United States pulls its troops from Haiti
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Social Security Act is passed
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Gone with the Wind is published by Margaret Mitchell
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The Appalachian Trail is completed
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The Naval Expansion Act passes
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The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
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U.S. Congress approves and enacts the first peacetime conscription draft
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Atlantic Charter is issued by President Roosevelt and Churchill
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The development of the first atomic bomb is signed into agreement
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Race riots in Detroit and Harlem
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The G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law
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President Roosevelt dies suddenly
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The Atomic Energy Commission is established
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park is established
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The Soviet Union begins its land blockade of the Allied sectors of Berlin
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United States withdraws its troops from Korea
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1950-1969
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty espionage
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The 1952 Winter Olympics open in Helsinki, Finland
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The first color televisions go on sale
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Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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The first transatlantic telephone cable begins operation
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President Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term in office
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Explorer I, the first U.S. space satellite, is launched by the Army at Cape Canaveral
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Alaska becomes 49th US state
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Tiros I, the first weather satellite, is launched by the US
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entire US figure skating team is killed in a plane crash near Brussels, Belgium
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The Cuban Missile Crises begins
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The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. culminates with Dr. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech
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Muhammad Ali wins the World Heavyweight Championship in Boxing
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The New York World's Fair opens in Queens, New York
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed into law
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Medicare, the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins
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The New York Jets win Super Bowl III over the Baltimore Colts
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as first black Supreme Court Justice
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Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
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The Apollo program completes its mission
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Period: to
1970-1979
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US troops invade Cambodia
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Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington
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Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland in bid for peace
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Greek military junta abolishes monarchy and proclaims republic
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Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
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President Ford escapes second assassination attempt
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First woman Episcopal priest ordained
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Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act
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new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly
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Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., releases radiation