| |
Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1900 | - 1900: United States population — 75,994,575.
- Feb 1900: Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie box camera. It sells for $1.
|
| 2 | 1901 | - 1901: Kiowa County in the Oklahoma Territory is formed with land from the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians.
- 1 Aug 1901: A lot auction in Kiowa County, Oklahoma begins to convert a 2,000-tent "Rag City" into the town of Hobart. Hobart receives its first telephones.
- 14 Sep 1901: Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as President of the United States at age 42. [He becomes President as a result of the assassination of President William McKinley.]
|
| 3 | 1903 | - 1903: Hobart, Kiowa County in the Oklahoma Territory receives its first automobile.
- 17 Dec 1903: The Wright brothers fly the Wright Flyer I at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, Dare County, North Carolina. [Kill Devil Hill is on the Northern Outer Banks portion of Cape Hatteras.] They fly 4 times that day in what are the first controlled, powered, and sustained flights. The Wight Flyer I is constructed of spruce, including the propellers. It has a 40.3-foot wingspan and weighs 605 pounds. It has a 12-horsepower gasoline engine. Wilbur and Orville Wright take turns on the flights. The first flight is at a height of 10 feet and travels approximately 120 feet in 12 seconds. The next two flights travel 175 feet. The final flight travels 852 feet and lasts 59 seconds. Wilbur Wright is age 36, and Orville Wright is age 32.
|
| 4 | 1904 | - 1904: Hobart, Kiowa County in the Oklahoma Territory is now powered with electricity.
|
| 5 | 1907 | - 1907—1908: A depression lasts 12 months and into 1908.
- 16 Nov 1907: Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.
|
| 6 | 1908 | - 3 Sep 1908: Orville Wright pilots the first hour-long flight. Orville is age 37.
|
| 7 | 1910 | - 1910: United States population — 91,972,266.
- 21 Apr 1910: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] dies in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut at age 74.
|
| 8 | 1912 | - 6 Jan 1912: New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
- 14 Feb 1912: Arizona becomes the 48th state.
- 15 Apr 1912: The Titantic sinks in the Atlantic Ocean.
|
| 9 | 1913 | - 1913: Henry Ford begins using standardized interchangeable parts and assembly line techniques in his automobile plant. His expanded use of this process revolutionizes American industry.
- 1913—1914: A depression lasts 20 months and into 1914.
|
| 10 | 1914 | - 15 Aug 1914: The Panama Canal opens.
|
| 11 | 1917 | - 6 Apr 1917: The United States enters World War I.
|
| 12 | 1918 | - 31 Mar 1918: The United States adopts Daylight Savings Time.
- 11 Nov 1918: World War I hostilities end.
|
| 13 | 1919 | - 11 Dec 1919: James County, Tennessee is absorbed into Hamilton County, Tennessee. James County had dissolved in bankruptcy on April 15, 1919.
|
| 14 | 1920 | - 1920—1921: A depression lasts for 18 months and into 1921.
- 1920: United States population — 105,710,620.
- 18 Aug 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted, granting women the right to vote.
|
| 15 | 1923 | - 15 Sep 1923: Oklahoma is placed under martial law due to terrorist activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
|
| 16 | 1925 | - 10 Jul 1925—21 Jul 1925: The Scopes "Monkey Trial" is held in Dayton, Rhea County, Tennessee.
|
| 17 | 1926 | - 2 Jul 1926: Congress creates the Army Air Corps.
|
1898 - Aft 1926 (~ 28 years)