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April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake. April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore . April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival , an event which ...
The Cananea strike, also known as the Cananea riot, [1] or the Cananea massacre, [2] took place in the Mexican mining town of Cananea, Sonora, in June 1906.Although the workers were forced to return to their positions with no demand being met, the action was a key event in the general unrest that emerged during the final years of the regime of President Porfirio Díaz and that prefigured the ...
[1] The violence lasted through September 24, 1906. [2] The events were reported by newspapers around the world, including the French Le Petit Journal which described the "lynchings in the USA" and the " massacre of Negroes in Atlanta," [ 3 ] the Scottish Aberdeen Press & Journal under the headline "Race Riots in Georgia," [ 4 ] and the London ...
Soldier of the 25th Infantry (photo c. 1884–90) Since arriving at Fort Brown on July 28, 1906, the black US soldiers had been required to follow the legal color line mandate from white citizens of Brownsville, which included the state's racial segregation law dictating separate accommodation for black people and white people, and Jim Crow customs such as showing respect for white people, as ...
1917–1919 – Silent Sentinels hold a vigil outside the White House gates in favor of women's suffrage, a nearly two–and–a–half year demonstration organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party; 1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism
The 1906 State of the Union Address was written by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, on Monday, December 3, 1906. He did not speak directly to the 59th United States Congress. He said, "The readiness and efficiency of both the Army and Navy in dealing with the recent sudden crisis in Cuba illustrate afresh their value ...
A tremendous earthquake strikes the San Francisco region, April 18, 1906; The United States reoccupies Cuba, September 29, 1906 – January 28, 1909; The Territory of Oklahoma is admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma (the 46th state) on November 16, 1907; William Howard Taft becomes the 27th president of the United States on March 4, 1909
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