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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 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
The "Fourth Party System" is the term used in political science and history for the period in American political history from the mid-1890s to the early 1930s, It was dominated by the Republican Party, excepting when 1912 split in which Democrats (led by President Woodrow Wilson) held the White House for eight
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)
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)
June 10 – Gideon T. Stewart, educator and politician (born 1824) June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, writer (born 1849) [6] June 29 – George B. Cosby, Confederate general in the American Civil War (born 1830) August 21 – George Cabot Lodge, poet (born 1873) September 4 – Clyde Fitch, dramatist (born 1865)
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
October 4 – The American yacht Columbia defeats the Irish Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race in New York. October 16 – President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.