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1900
Galveston hurricane -
1902
Drago Doctrine -
1903
Wright Brother's make their first powered flight -
1905
Niagra Falls conference -
1906
Hepburn act -
1907
Oklahoma becomes a state -
1906
Pure food and Drug Act -
1908
Ford Model T appears on market -
1906
San Francisco earthquake -
1909
US penny changed to Abraham Lincoln -
1907
coal mine explodes in Monogah, West Virginia -
1909
William Howard Taft becomes president -
1910
Mann-Elkins act -
1908
Federal Bureau of investigation created -
1910
Mann Act -
1913
New York's Grand Central Terminal Opens -
1910
Boy Scouts Established in U.S. -
1910
Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance -
1911
Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom -
1911
The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered -
1912
Oreo Cookies First Introduced -
1912
The Titanic Sinks -
1914
World War I Begins -
1914
Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated -
1914
Babe Ruth Pitches His First Game and Hits His First Home Run With Red Sox -
1914
First Traffic Light -
1915
Czar Nicholas II Personally Takes Control of the Russian Army -
1915
Klu Klux Klan Revived -
1915
One Millionth Model T Rolls Off Assembly Line -
1916
First Use of Tanks in Warfare -
1916
Jeanette Rankin Becomes First Woman to Serve in U.S. Congress -
1916
John D. Rockefeller Becomes America's First Billionaire -
1917
First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded -
1917
U.S. Enters World War I -
1918
Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed -
1919
Hitler Joins the Nazi Party -
1919
Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I -
1920
Prohibition Begins in the U.S. -
1920
Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.