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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Categories: | Births Deaths By country By topic Establishments Disestablishments |
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Categories: | Births Deaths By country By topic Establishments Disestablishments |
By 1900 the American nation had established itself as a world power. … The McCormick reaper had made large-scale farming profitable and, in 1900, the U.S. was by far the world’s largest agricultural producer. The first transcontinental rail link had been completed in 1869.
1901 | Death of Queen Victoria |
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1913 | Nijinsky and Pavlova perfoming Fokine and Diaghilev’s ballets |
1914 | First World War – Germany/Austria vs Britain/France/Russia |
1914 | Panama Canal opened |
1914 | Charlie Chaplin makes his first silent movies |
In 1900, the average family had an annual income of $3,000 (in today’s dollars). The family had no indoor plumbing, no phone, and no car. About half of all American children lived in poverty. Most teens did not attend school; instead, they labored in factories or fields.
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect on January 16, 1920. This amendment outlawed the production and consumption of alcohol and is commonly known as Prohibition. Many historians believe that it was during this time that organized crime began to increase.
April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1). May 4 – U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal. May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
During the Red Scare of 1920, for example, hundreds of immigrants were rounded up and some were deported (forced to leave the country). The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants accused of murder, highlighted the prejudice against these newcomers.
On February 14, 1903, the U.S. Census Bureau becomes part of the new U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor. The first silent film, The Great Train Robbery, debuts in 1903. Orville and Wilbur Wright are first to fly a controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air airplane at Kitty Hawk, NC, on December 17, 1903.
20th century/Periods
While the period 1900-1999 is of course a century, as is any period of 100 years, it is incorrect to label it the 20th century, which began January 1, 1901, and will end on December 31, 2000.
April 14–15 – Sinking of the RMS Titanic: RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. The wreck would not be discovered until 1985. … April 16 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
The 1920s were an exciting time in Canada because of the economic prosperity, technological, social and cultural revolutions and growing political responsibility and change in policy that country experienced. These economic, social and political changes really made the 1920s in Canada “roar”.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 ended the era, as the Great Depression brought years of hardship worldwide.
Often referred to as the “Gilded Age”, the Edwardian period takes its name from the rule of King Edward VII, reigning from 1901 to just 1910; however the term ‘Edwardian Era’ is often extended beyond Edward’s death to the beginning of world war I in 1914, or its end in 1918.
Industrial expansion and population growth radically changed the face of the nation’s cities. Noise, traffic jams, slums, air pollution, and sanitation and health problems became commonplace. Mass transit, in the form of trolleys, cable cars, and subways, was built, and skyscrapers began to dominate city skylines.
May 6 – The German-Soviet Provisional Agreement is signed: Germany recognises the Soviet government in the RSFSR. May 14–15 – The major May 1921 geomagnetic storm occurs. May 14–17 – Violent anti-European riots occur in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. … May 23–July 16 – The Leipzig War Crimes Trials are held in Germany.
109 years ago, the Titanic sank. … On April 10, 1912, RMS Titanic — the world’s largest ship at the time — departed for its maiden voyage from Southampton, England. The ship, carrying 2,240 passengers and crew, made stops in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before setting sail for New York City.
The year 1908 began at midnight when a 700-pound “electric ball” fell from the flagpole atop the New York Times building—the first-ever ball-drop in Times Square. It ended 366 days later (1908 was a leap year) with a nearly two-and-a-half-hour flight by Wilbur Wright, the longest ever made in an airplane.
POP Culture: 1910
Boyce incorporates the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910. Fire kills 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, on March 25, 1911. Arizona becomes the 48th state and last of the contiguous states admitted to the Union on February 14, 1912. HMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on April 14, 1912.
In the year 1904, Father of Indian Industry, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata passed away. The pioneer industrialist founded the Tata Group. 3. In the year 1926, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison for the first time spoke on a radio.
1904 Russo-Japanese War -The Russo-Japanese war erupted when negotiations over Korea and Manchuria broke down. The Japanese began the war with a successful surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. The port was then blockaded by the Japanese.
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