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October 6 – Buck Ewing, American baseball player New York Giants and MLB Hall of Famer (born 1859) October 9 – Joseph Glidden , inventor of barbed wire (born 1813 ) October 16 – Varina Davis , wife of Jefferson Davis , First Lady of the Confederate States of America (born 1826 )
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 ...
February 6 – Merze Tate, African American academic (died 1996) March 15 – Nat Perrin, comedy screenwriter (died 1998) March 17 – Lillian Yarbo, actress (died 1996) [8] [9] [10] April 9 – J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1945 to 1974 (died 1995) May 15 – Joseph Cotten, actor (died 1994)
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907, a move which ultimately leads to establishment of the Federal ...
1906 Typesetting. Typesetting is the retrieval of the stored letters and the ordering of them according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting was invented by John Raphael Rogers of Brooklyn, New York, who filed U.S. patent #837127 on October 8, 1906, and issued to him on November 27, 1906. [119] [120] 1906 Flushometer
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The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the United States Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, [42] soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal employees. With mail service virtually paralyzed in New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia, President Nixon declared a state ...