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News of the Real World
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:37 am
by noreply66
1901--William McKinley is assassinated,Teddy Roosevelt becomes president.
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:57 pm
by noreply66
1903--Henry Ford,with $28,000 in cash,starts the Ford Motor Company
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:53 am
by noreply66
1904
Construction of the Panama Canal Begins.
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:07 am
by noreply66
1905--Town of Los Vegas is founded in Nevada
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:34 pm
by noreply66
1906 An 8.3 magnitude earthquake devastates San Francisco
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:53 pm
by noreply66
1909 The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:00 am
by noreply66
1910 W.E.B.DuBors founds the NAACP,Heayweight Jack Johnson knocks out the great white hope,James J. Jefferes,setting off race riots across the U.S.
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:16 am
by noreply66
1911 John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil declared a monopoly,its breakup ordered by U.S. Supreme Court.
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:02 am
by noreply66
1912 The "Unsinkable"Titantic hits an iceberg and goes down in the North Atlantic,Killing 1,523.
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:43 am
by noreply66
1913 The 16th Amendment is ratified,paving the way for the federal income tax
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:20 am
by noreply66
1915 The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat,killing 1,198
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:51 pm
by noreply66
1919 18th Amendment ratified,making the consumption of alcohoic beverages illegal.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:11 am
by noreply66
1920 19th Ameendment ratified,giving American women the right to vote.
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:55 am
by noreply66
1921 The Avus Autobahn,the world's first highway,opens in Germany.
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:15 am
by noreply66
1922 Josef Stalin becomes secretary general of the Communist Party in the Sovirt Union.
Insulin is used for the first time in the successful treatment of diabetes,in a 14-year-old boy
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:17 pm
by noreply66
1923 President Warren G. Harding dies in office,succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:57 pm
by noreply66
1924 Chamonix,France,host the first Winter Olympics
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:19 pm
by noreply66
1925
Astronomer Edwin Hubble finds galaxies outside our own.
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:28 am
by BubbleGumTiger
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:43 am
by noreply66
1926 John Baird produced television images of moving objects.