Events
On September 6 1901 Leon Czolgosz shot
President William McKinley. He died at 2:15 am
on September 14 and Vice-President Theodore
Roosevelt was sworn in as president on the same day,5:12 am on April 18 1906 the "Great San Francisco Earthquake" hitsFather's Day was first celebratedexplosion in West Virginia's Monongah Mine
is the nation's worst industrial disaster.
The "official" number of deaths was 362 adult
and child miners, but later estimates exceed 5001909 The US Mint introduces the "Lincoln Head" pennThe great fire of 1910 The firestorm
burned over two days, and killed 87 people,
mostly firefighters. It is believed to be the largest
but not the deadliest, forest fire in U.S. historyCuba gains independence from the United Statesthe Olympics start
women are allowed in the 1900
Summer Olympics Paris, FranceElectric theatre opens in Los Angeles, as the United States first Movie Theatre.The first teddy bear is produced by Morris Michtom in the United States.38% of US automobiles, 33,842 cars,
are powered by electricity (40% by steam, and
22% by gasoline).First Human powered flight by Orville
Wright in Kitty Hawk North CarolinaThomas Edison improves the design of
his nickel-iron batteryGuglielmo Marconi, listening
through his telephone headset, heard a series of
three "bips"; Morse code for the letter "s." He
had received the first transatlantic
communication, sent from a radio transmitter
just over 2100 miles away, on the southwest
coast of England using technology he himself
had developed.1900 Black people were discriminated against in Canada and the U.S.Take Me Out To The Ball Game - 1908
(by Jack Norworth & Albert Von Tilzer )Expression writing started to flourish in the 1900The first plastic for domestic use – Bakelite – was introduced in 1909Olympics end
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