1900
  • William McKinley President
  • Teddy Roosevelt Vice President
  • Hawaii becomes a Territory
  • US adopts Gold as currency
  • Hurricane kills 6000 in TX
  • 30 Bison left in US
  • Kodak intoduces camera
  • 114 mi. road surfaced
  • Cake Walk popular dance
  • Casey Jones dies
  • US Population over 75 mil
  • 1st World Exhibition
  • 1st Electric Bus in N.Y.
  • Book of Stamps issued in US
  • 1st Hamburger made
  • Quantum Theory introduced

    1901
  • Prident McKinley assassinated
  • Teddy Roosevelt is President
  • Queen Victoria dies
  • Gillette produces safety razors
  • Kato invents instant coffee
  • Oil discovered in Texas
  • Bowling Tournament starts
  • Ameican League is established
  • Ping Pong is the craze
  • First Mercedes rolls out
  • Nicelodeons become popular
  • Booth patents vacum cleaner
  • Australian becomes a nation


    1902
  • Peter Rabbit Debutes
  • Edison invents the battery
  • Mt. Pele erupts
  • Holmes appointed to Supreme Court
  • Stiles discovers hookworms
  • Electric Hear aid is made
  • Rayon is invented
  • Crayola Crayons introduced
  • Pepsi is established
  • Tournament of Roses established
  • Teddy Bear hits the market


    1903
  • First Plane flight
  • Harley-Davidson motorcycle debutes
  • Oil is discovered in Oklahoma
  • Ford create Ford Motor Company
  • Boston Red Sox wins World Series
  • Curie wins Nobel Prize
  • Tour de France debutes
  • Bayer Aspirin is introduced


    1904
  • Teddy Roosevelt President
  • C. W. Fairbanks Vice President
  • 1st Diesel Engine introduced
  • 1st Underground Railway in N.Y.
  • Cy Young pitches perfect game
  • Pro Hockey League is formed
  • Football Assoc. established
  • Pavlov wins Nobel Prize
  • Peter Pan flies in
  • Helen Keller get degree
  • Ice cream cone make debute
  • Russia goes to war


    1905
  • Postcard are the craze
  • Norway is independent
  • Pizza debutes in N.Y.
  • Einstein's theory of relativity
  • Von Suttner wins Nobel Prize
  • 10,000 die in India earthquake
  • Swan Lake debutes
  • The Blues is a smash hit
  • Yellow Fever epidemic hits
  • Malaria Epidemic hits
  • Neon lights debute
  • VickRub is introduced
  • Palmolive soap hit market
  • 1st Typewriter debutes
  • N.Y. Giants win the World Series

    1906
  • San Francisco Earthquake hits
  • Victrola is introduced
  • Planter Nuts is founded
  • Chicago White Sox wins Series
  • NCAA is formed
  • Kellogg is founded


    1907
  • Oklahoma becomes 46th State
  • IQ test introduced
  • Armstrong Linoleum debutes
  • Chicago Cubs win World Series
  • 1st Mother's Day is observed
  • Record immigration for the US
  • Boy Scouts is formed
  • Ziegfeld Follies debute
  • Kipling wins Nobel Prize
  • Bubonic Plague hits India
  • 1st Helicoper make flight

    1908
  • William Taft President
  • James Sherman Vice President
  • NAACP is founded
  • Electric Iron patented
  • Electric Toaster debutes
  • Paper cups hit market
  • Model T car introduced
  • Chicago Cubs win World Series
  • Figure Skating hits US
  • Cellophane debutes
  • Pu Yi Boy Emperor
  • Olympics in London
  • British Women call for vote

    1909
  • Peary discovers North Pole
  • Prince Ito of Japan slain
  • Geronimo dies
  • Pittsburgh Priates win Series
  • Mint issue Lincoln Penny
  • Bleriot flies Channel

  • The Eastman Kodak Company launched an new camera called the Brownie. It was easy to carry around and for the first time the film could be unloaded and sent to be developed. The camera cost one dollar, but the film cost twenty-five dollars for one hundred pictures, and reloading cost two dollars.

    Queen Victoria, crowned when she was 18 years old in 1838, died at the age of 81 on 22 January, 1901. She reigned for 63 years and was the longers reign in the British monarch. She married Price Albert in 1840 and gave life to 9 children. Many of the children were part of the European royal families. She loved to dance and had many gala events until the death of her husband. She wore black from that time on and stayed much to herself.

    President William McKinley died on 14 September 1901 when shot by an assassins bullet at the Fair in Buffalo, New York eight days earlier. The President is the third President to be murdered. His Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt was summoned but arrived to late to see the President, and was sworn in 12 hours after President McKinley died.

    President Theodore Roosevelt on October 16th, 1901, invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House. Washington, born a slave, believed in education for uniting Blacks and Whites. Washington became the first Black Principal when a college opened in 1881. He fast became recognized as the leader of Black Americans.

    On 10 December 1903, Marie Curie is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for her work with radioactivity and elements like thorium, polonium, and radium. She shares the Prize with husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel.

    Helen Keller at a young age was stricken by an illness that left her deaf and blind and couldn't talk. Because of her disability, a teacher, Ann Sullivan would teach her how to read and write braille. Strive to learn all that she could she attended Horace Mann School then she went to college and earned a degree, proving that you can accomplish your dreams no matter your handicap.

    Albert Einstein introduces the Theory of Relativity to the world through a book he wrote called "Special Relativity. He maintains that that there is no such thing as absolute time or motion but the the speed of light is absolute. Thus he came up with the equation E=mc(squared), where E equals energy, m equals motion and c is the speed of light. Einstein was born in Germany and educated to become a physicist.

    Lord Robert Baden-Powell, after fighting in the Boer War, formed the Boy Scouts. He wanted to teach boys to become good citzens and instilled in them a sense of duty, unselfishness and discipline. He took 20 boys to Brown Sea Island and formed the first Scout Troop on 29 July, 1907. Here they learned outdoor skills, lifesaving skills, first aid and survival in the wilderness. At the end of camp, family members and other interested in what he was doing, came to see the events that the boys had learned in the time that he had them on the Island. Everyone was so impressed and the birth of the scouting movement began.

    On October 1st, 1908, Henry Ford introduces the Model T. The car cost $850.00 and was affordable to many people. Mr. Ford started a manufacturing assemble line to help produce the car much faster. The Model T is only available in black and in 1908 over 8,000 cars were manufactured.

    The Lightning Benz though in England broke all speed records in 1909. A French driver called Vicotr Hemery drove over 127 miles per hour proving that gasoline cars have more advantage over steam-powered cars. The Benz was made in Mannheim, Germany.






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