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Queen Victoria Dies
Queen Victoria dies, and is succeeded by her son, Edward VII. She died at the Osborne House, East Cowes, United Kingdom. -
Roosevelt sworn in
As President McKinley begins second term, he is shot fatally by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, NY. Theodore Roosevelt sworn in as successor. -
First Flight
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
Trip Abroad
The first official trip abroad by a United States president occurs when Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to inspect the progress in the construction of the Panama Canal. -
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New Invention
The first plastic based on a synthetic polymer was made from phenol and formaldehyde, with the first viable and cheap synthesis methods invented in 1907. It was in vented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American living in New York state. -
New State
Representatives of the two territories drafted a constitution, and on September 17, 1907, it was approved by voters of the two territories. On November 16, Oklahoma was welcomed into the United States by President Theodore Roosevelt. -
The Tunguska Event
At 7:14 a.m. on June 30, 1908, a giant explosion shook central Siberia. Witnesses close to the event described seeing a fireball in the sky, as bright and hot as another sun. Millions of trees fell and the ground shook. Although a number of scientists investigated, it is still a mystery as to what caused the explosion. -
SOS
The first way of communication for ships once they left the dock was Morse code. The problem with that was everyone needed to know the code or it was useless. So the SOS was developed as an easy distress call for everyone -
Revolt
Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire. Young Turks, Turkish Jöntürkler , coalition of various reform groups that led a revolutionary movement against the authoritarian regime of Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II. Which culminated in the establishment of a constitutional government. -
Titanic Construction
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, US. The construction started on March 31st, 1909. The construction was finished on May 31, 1911. -
North Pole Bound
Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole. On April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson, and four Eskimos reach what they determine to be the North Pole. Decades after Peary’s death, however, navigational errors in his travel log surfaced, placing the expedition in all probability a few miles short of its goal. -
Assination
Prince Itō Hirobumi was a Japanese statesman and genrō. A London-educated samurai of the Chōshū Domain and an influential figure in the early Meiji Restoration government, he chaired the bureau which drafted the Meiji Constitution in the 1880s. -
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