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1891 |
Haile Selassi, Emperor of Ethiopia for over fifty years, is born.
Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani stepped down from her throne in protest to United States plans to force the island nation to become a part of its borders.
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1893 |
Charles Webber painted "The Underground Railroad", in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Women in New Zealand are the first to gain the right to vote.
American, W. L. Judson, makes the first zipper.
Cincinnati City Hall is completed.
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1894 |
Great Britain takes control over African country of Uganda.
Nikita Krushchev, leader of the U. S. S. R., is born.
Japan and Korea declare war on China and defeat the Chinese.
Rudyard Kipling writes The Jungle Book.
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1895 |
First professional football game played in United States at Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
British trading company proclaims its African land as Rhodesia.
Italians defeated by Ethiopians in Africa.
Frederick Douglass, American civil rights leader, dies.
Babe Ruth, American baseball player, is born.
Lumiere Brothers develop moving pictures, "movies," and hold the first public film show in Paris.
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1896 |
First modern Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece.
William McKinley of Stark County, Ohio is elected the 26th President of the United States.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1905), African-American poet from Dayton, Ohio published Majors and Minors, one of his most important books of poetry.
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1897 |
Amelia Earhart is born in Atchinson, Kansas.
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1899 |
Aspirin is invented. |
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1900 |
Chinese begin Boxer Rebellion against foreign invaders and Christians.
Austrian Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams. His works helped doctors to understand the human mind.
Isadora Duncan, who founded the modern dance movement, has her first European performance
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1901 |
British inventor, Booth, designs the first electric vacuum cleaner.
Louis Armstrong, jazz great, is born on August 4.
Commonwealth of Australia brings together seven separate states into one country.
United States president William McKinley is assassinated.
First Nobel prizes awarded.
R. Maybach builds first Mercedes automobile.
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1902 |
Australian women succeed in the right to vote
William Marion Cook's musical satire, In Dahomey, opens in New York and is among the first of a number of productions that focus on African themes.
Japan and Russia recognize the independence of China and Korea.
Over 90% of U.S. coal workers go on strike.
James Cash Penney (J.C. Penney) opened his first Golden Rule Store for clothes, shoes, and dry goods in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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1903 |
The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo. English Missionaries, such as William Sheppard, had provided information that soldiers of Belgium King Leopold's private army turned over the right hand of villagers they had killed in order to account for their used bullets. Leopold's 19,000-man private army held hostage the wives of male African workers to force the men to work.
Marie and Pierre Currie receive the Nobel Prize following their discovery of radium.
Dayton bicycle makers Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful self-powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk is published.
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1904 |
Theodore Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] was born. He was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and other children's books.
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1906 |
Kellogg first sells corn flakes, the most popular breakfast cereal in the world.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth unveils the McKinley Monument. The largest known crowd (50,000 people) gathers on the Statehouse grounds for this event.
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1907 |
The first Cubist Exhibition in Paris shows works of Pablo Picasso.
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1908 |
Lord Baden Powell founds the Boy Scouts.
Belgians force Congo Nation to become an official colony of Belgium.
American, Henry Ford, makes the first Model "T" car. By the end of 1913, his factory is turning out more than 1,000 cars per day.
Cincinnatian William Howard Taft elected the 27th President of the US. He also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1921-1930.
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1909 |
North American explorer Robert Perry is the first man to reach the North Pole.
Leo Baekeland produces the first hard plastic made entirely from chemicals, bakelite.
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1910 |
Jaques Cousteau, marine biologist/explorer born.
Japanese take control over Korea until 1945.
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