News of the Real World

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:37 am

1901--William McKinley is assassinated,Teddy Roosevelt becomes president.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:57 pm

1903--Henry Ford,with $28,000 in cash,starts the Ford Motor Company

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:53 am

1904

Construction of the Panama Canal Begins.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:07 am

1905--Town of Los Vegas is founded in Nevada

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:34 pm

1906 An 8.3 magnitude earthquake devastates San Francisco

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:53 pm

1909 The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:00 am

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.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:16 am

1911 John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil declared a monopoly,its breakup ordered by U.S. Supreme Court.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:02 am

1912 The "Unsinkable"Titantic hits an iceberg and goes down in the North Atlantic,Killing 1,523.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:43 am

1913 The 16th Amendment is ratified,paving the way for the federal income tax

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:20 am

1915 The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat,killing 1,198

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:51 pm

1919 18th Amendment ratified,making the consumption of alcohoic beverages illegal.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:11 am

1920 19th Ameendment ratified,giving American women the right to vote.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:55 am

1921 The Avus Autobahn,the world's first highway,opens in Germany.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:15 am

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

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:17 pm

1923 President Warren G. Harding dies in office,succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:57 pm

1924 Chamonix,France,host the first Winter Olympics

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:19 pm

1925

Astronomer Edwin Hubble finds galaxies outside our own.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:28 am

7 dead in Huntington apartment fire...........

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Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:43 am

1926 John Baird produced television images of moving objects.