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Marie Rudisill, American TV and radio personality (died 2006) March 24 – Joseph Barbera , cartoonist (died 2006 ) March 25 – Jack Ruby , assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who (according to four government investigations) [ 4 ] assassinated President John F. Kennedy ) (died 1967 )
From 1911 to 1913, 60 of the 64 new laws recommended by the Commission were legislated with the support of Governor William Sulzer. [9] As a result of the fire, the American Society of Safety Professionals was founded in New York City on October 14, 1911. [67]
Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose, led American progressives in the early 20th century. 1906 – San Francisco earthquake; 1907 – Oklahoma becomes a state; 1907 – Gentlemen's Agreement; 1907 – Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst industrial accident in American history. 1908 – Ford Model T appears on ...
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire On June 15, 1904, over 1,000 people were killed when the excursion steamship General Slocum caught fire and burned in the East River . It was a major blow to the German-American community.
Laura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. [1] [2] They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, reportedly including Charley Guthrie, father of the folk singer Woody Guthrie. [3]
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Both were indicted in 1911, but they became fugitives and evaded the police. On July 4, 1914, a dynamite bomb exploded in a New York tenement apartment occupied by three anarchists. All three men died in the explosion, which destroyed the building, killed a woman in the next apartment, and injured many more.