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1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre devastated the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Emergency Quota Act restricted immigration to the US. Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party. The Irish Free State was established. Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1920: Women gained US voting rights. Prohibition began. The League of Nations met. Harding was elected. Radio broadcasting started. The Harlem Renaissance flourished. A time of social, political, and cultural shifts.
1919: Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, creating the League of Nations. US Prohibition began. The Weimar Republic was established. The Spanish Flu pandemic continued. International air service began.
1918: World War I ended with the Armistice on November 11th. The Spanish Flu pandemic spread globally, causing millions of deaths. Germany became a republic. Women gained the right to vote in Britain. Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland declared independence from Russia.
1917: The US joined World War I. The Russian Revolution toppled the Tsar. The Balfour Declaration supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Finland declared independence. Lawrence of Arabia aided the Arab Revolt.
1916: World War I raged on with battles like Verdun and the Somme. Easter Rising in Ireland. Woodrow Wilson was re-elected US President. David Lloyd George became British Prime Minister.
1915: World War I raged on, including the Second Battle of Ypres. The Lusitania was sunk. The Armenian Genocide began. Einstein completed general relativity. Margaret Sanger advocated for birth control.
1914: World War I began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Panama Canal officially opened. Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began. The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed in the US. The first transcontinental telephone line was established.
1913: The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing income tax, was ratified. The Federal Reserve System was established. Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line, revolutionizing mass production. The Second Balkan War took place. Niels Bohr introduced his model of the atom.
1912: The RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. The First Balkan War began. Arizona became the 48th US state. The Stockholm Olympics were held. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) went on strike.
1911: Amundsen reached the South Pole. Sun Yat-sen established the Republic of China. Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize. The first Indy 500 was held. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire highlighted unsafe conditions.
1910: Halley's Comet made its appearance. King Edward VII of Britain died, and George V ascended the throne. Portugal became a republic. The Mexican Revolution began. The NAACP held its first national convention.
1909: Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole (though this claim is disputed). Louis Blériot made the first successful airplane flight across the English Channel. The NAACP was founded. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first race. Construction began on the Panama Canal locks.
1908: Ford launched the Model T, revolutionizing cars. The Tunguska event, a huge explosion, occurred in Siberia. London hosted the modern Olympics. Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion. The Wright Flyer III flew.
1907: The Panic of 1907 caused a financial crisis in the US. Oklahoma became the 46th US state. Pablo Picasso painted "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," a landmark work in Cubism. The first Boy Scout troop was formed in England. The RMS Lusitania was launched.
1906: The San Francisco earthquake devastated the city. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in the US, improving food safety. The Azusa Street Revival, a major event in Pentecostalism, began. The first radio broadcast of music occurred.
1905: Einstein published his groundbreaking papers on relativity, the photoelectric effect, and Brownian motion. The Russo-Japanese War ended with a Japanese victory. Bloody Sunday ignited Russia's 1905 revolution. The IWW was founded. Norway gained independence.
1904: The Russo-Japanese War began. The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France. The St. Louis World's Fair took place. Construction began on the Panama Canal. Rolls-Royce was founded.
1903: The Wright brothers made their first successful powered flight. The Boston Red Sox won the first World Series. Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. The Panama Canal treaty was signed. Pius X became Pope.
1902: The Second Boer War ended. The first movie theater opened in the US. Cuba gained independence. The Coal Strike caused a national crisis. Mount Pelée erupted, devastating Martinique.