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The Azusa Street Revival was a historic series of revival meetings that took place in Los Angeles, California. [1] It was led by William J. Seymour, an African-American preacher. The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915.
October 1 – The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with 28 students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street, just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, D.C. October 11 – The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan , by ordering Japanese students to be taught ...
Milk Street is a street in the financial district of Boston, Massachusetts, which was one of Boston's earliest highways. [1] The name "Milk Street" was most likely given to the street in 1708 due to a milk market at the location, although Grace Croft's 1952 work "History and Genealogy of Milk Family" instead proposes that Milk Street may have ...
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
1705 – Benjamin Franklin born on Milk St. 1711 October: Fire. [2] Pierce–Hichborn House built (approximate date). 1712 – Crease's apothecary rebuilt. 1713 – May: Boston Bread Riot. 1716 – Boston Light erected in harbour. [7] 1719 – December 21: Boston Gazette newspaper begins publication. [13] 1721 – 1721 Boston smallpox outbreak ...
1906 – District Building (city hall) constructed. [7] 1907 Union Station built. [9] Washington National Cathedral construction begins. 1910 – Population: 331,069. [17] 1912 – "Cherry trees planted around the Tidal Basin." [26] 1913 [28] 1915 – Association for the Study of Negro Life and History established. 1917 – National Sylvan ...
Before the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, most food oversight was mandated to state laws, which were enacted during the colonial days and served mainly trade interests. [1] They set standards of weight, and "provided for inspections of exports like salt meats, fish and flour". [ 1 ]
Fifth Avenue and 77th Street in New York City (winter 1905–1906) The house took up 250 feet on 77th Street and 77 feet on Fifth Avenue, more than any other Gilded Age mansion on Fifth opposite the park, with the exception of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion. [3] The Fifth Avenue frontage was large for a New York house, with three bays of granite.