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Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidential election of 1876, which he became our 19th president of the united states. Samuel Tilden was his electoral opponent
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and made the first-ever call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant
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Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse of Sioux defeat Custer in Montana.
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John Sutter, who owned the sawmill where a gold discovery began the California Gold Rush, died in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 1881
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Benjamin Harrison became our 23rd President of the United States and ran against Grover Cleveland. Benjamin Harris won by 233 electoral votes while Grover Cleveland had 168 electoral votes
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the first-ever wax drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone in Washington D.C.
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Also known as the battle for the San Juan Heights. Theodore Roosevelt was the new commander and led the Rough Riders to their so-called "greatest victory"
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American victory during the Philippine-American War. the American forces were led by General Henry W. Lawton.
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With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt because the 26th President of the United States
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British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth and American inventor David T. Kenney invented the vacuum cleaner in 1901.
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I
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The Zimmerman Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication from Germany that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. This caused the US to enter World war 1
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This event occurred during the Mesopotamia Campaign, and it was fought between the British Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the First World War
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Warren G. Harding became our nation's 29th president and ran against James M. Cox
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Born in Missouri and he fought during world war 1
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The Liquid-Fuel Rocket was invented in 1926 by a man named Robert Goddard
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Antibiotics were discovered by a man known by the name of Alexander Fleming. This changed the medicine industry's future.
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The great depression started after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent wall street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors
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This act forbids unions from contributing to a political campaign and it forces union leaders to take an oath stating that they were not a communist.
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Hitler became convinced Germany could break some previsions of Versailles without serious consequences.
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The "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" to place on September 1, 1939, which was when Germany invaded Poland, which led to British and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation
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Japanese air raid on US naval base leads to calls for war