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Updated: 30 Oct 2017
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Created byFERNANDO GUERRERO
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November 6, 1900 - President William McKinley wins his second term as presidentSeptember 8, 1900 - The Galveston, Texas hurricane, with winds of 135 miles an hour, kills 8,000 people.January 10, 1901 - The first major oil discovery in Texas occurs near Spindletop in Beaumont.January 1, 1902 - The first Rose Bowl is held, pitting the college football squads of the University of Michigan and Stanford. Michigan won the initial contest 49-0.April 2, 1902 - The first movie theatre in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California. It was known as the Electric Theatre.January 18, 1903 - The first two-way wireless communication between Europe and the United StatesOctober 1, 1903 - The first modern World Series of Major League Baseball is held between the American and National Leagues after two years of bitter rivalry.December 17, 1903 - Inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright succeed in the first sustained and manned plane flightApril 30, 1904 - The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens.FFA Creed Adpoted 1930Smith Hughes Act legislation signed 19171st National FFA Convention 1928National FFA Band started 19471944 National FFA Foundation establishedFFA jacket adopted 1933Judging contests held at the American Royal Livestock Show 1926Official FFA colors adpoted 1929NFA merged with the FFA 1965Silver anniversary of the FFA 1953Name changed to National FFA 19881996
Net farm income reaches a record $54.9 billion1900 Average annual consumption of commercial fertilizer 3,738,300 tons1910
Big open-geared gas tractors introduced in areas of extensive farming1926
Cotton-stripper developed for High Plains; successful light tractors developed1900 Galveston hurricane1901 McKinley's second inauguration (March 4).1903 U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone (treaty signed Nov. 17)H.O. Sargent, a federal
agent for agricultural
education for AfricanAmericans
at the U.S.
Office of Education, and
G.W. Owens, a teachertrainer
at Virginia State
College, write the first constitution
and bylaws
for the New Farmers of
Virginia, an organization
for African-American
agriculture students. The
organization holds its first
state rally that same year.Official FFA Creed, written
by E.M. Tiffany, is adopted.
Edward Drace from Missouri
wins the first National Public
Speaking event.
First Official Dress uniform
is adopted: dark blue shirt,
blue or white pants, blue cap
and yellow tie.
Delegates restrict FFA
membership to boys only.
First FFA Manual printed by The
Farm Journal of Philadelphia.FFA members join in
the war effort. Three
former FFA members—
Robert Gray from Texas,
Travis Hoover from
California and Melvin
Jordan from Oklahoma—
serve with then Lt. Col.
Jimmy Doolittle and
participate in the famous
air raid on Tokyo.The first FFA Chorus
and National FFA Talent
program is held at the National
FFA Convention.
National FFA Supply
Service begins operation.
Record jump in
membership from
238,269 in 1947 to
260,300 in 1948. So
many members (10,000)
attend the 20th National
FFA Convention that a
folding-cot hotel is set
up in the basement of
the Municipal Auditorium
in Kansas City, Mo.
First FFA Week is
celebrated during the
week of George
Washington’s birthdayThe first International
Exchange Program
for FFA members
begins with Young
Farmers Club of
Great Britain.
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