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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
- 1876: Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, Montana
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| 2 | 1883 | - 1883: Civil Service established
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| 3 | 1885 | - 1885: Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
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| 4 | 1886 | - 1886: Geronimo surrenders
- 1886: Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills eleven people
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| 5 | 1890 | - 1890: Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
- 1890: Sherman Antitrust Act
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| 6 | 1898 | - 24 Apr 1898: Spanish-American War begins
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| 7 | 1901 | - 1901: Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated
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| 8 | 1903 | - 1903: Wright brothers fly first airplane
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| 9 | 1905 | - 1905: Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
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| 10 | 1910 | - 1910: Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
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| 11 | 1913 | - 1913: Woodrow Wilson inaugurated
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| 12 | 1914 | |
| 13 | 1916 | - 1916: Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
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| 14 | 1917 | - 1917: Russian (Communist) Revolution
- 1917: Selective Service Act creates draft
- 6 Apr 1917: The United States enters World War I
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| 15 | 1918 | - Mar 1918: Spanish Flu pandemic begins.
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| 16 | 1920 | - 1920: 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol
- 1920: Panama Canal completed
- 1920: 19th Amendment gives women right to vote
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| 17 | 1927 | - 1927: Lindbergh crosses Atlantic
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| 18 | 1928 | - 1928: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
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| 19 | 1929 | - 1929: Great Depression begins.
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| 20 | 1933 | - 1933: Roosevelt begins "New Deal"
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| 21 | 1934 | - 1934: Fermi creates plutonium
- 1934: Adolf Hitler becomes Fueher of Germany
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| 22 | 1939 | - 1939: World War II begins
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| 23 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: Pearl Harbor attacked; United States enters World War II
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1875 - 1941 (65 years)