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| 1 | 1886 | - 4 Sep 1886: Chiricahua Apache Chief Geronimo finally surrenders at about age 57. Geronimo had led the last band of Apache raiders in Arizona and New Mexico.
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| 2 | 1889 | - 22 Apr 1889: The Oklahoma "Sooner" Land Rush begins.
- 11 Nov 1889: Washington becomes the 42nd state.
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| 3 | 1890 | - 1890—1891: A depression lasts 9 months and into 1891.
- 1890: United States population — 62,947,714.
- 2 May 1890: The Oklahoma Territory is established.
- 10 Jul 1890: Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
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| 4 | 1891 | - 22 Sep 1891: President Grover Cleveland opens 900,000 acres of Indian land in Oklahoma to settlers.
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| 5 | 1892 | - 1892: President Grover Cleveland opens Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian land to settlers in Oklahoma.
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| 6 | 1893 | - 1893—1897: The Panic of 1893 begins. A depression lasts 48 months and into 1897.
- 15 Sep 1893: Garfield County in the Oklahoma Territory is formed with land from the Cherokee Outlet [popularly known as the "Cherokee Strip"].
- 16 Sep 1893: President Grover Cleveland opens the Cherokee Outlet [popularly known as the "Cherokee Strip"] between Oklahoma and Kansas to settlers. 100,000 settlers rush for the land.
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| 7 | 1897 | - 1897: The Klondike Gold Rush begins in Alaska.
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| 8 | 1900 | - 1900: United States population — 75,994,575.
- Feb 1900: Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie box camera. It sells for $1.
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| 9 | 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.]
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| 10 | 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.
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| 11 | 1904 | - 1904: Hobart, Kiowa County in the Oklahoma Territory is now powered with electricity.
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| 12 | 1907 | - 1907—1908: A depression lasts 12 months and into 1908.
- 16 Nov 1907: Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.
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| 13 | 1908 | - 3 Sep 1908: Orville Wright pilots the first hour-long flight. Orville is age 37.
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| 14 | 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.
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| 15 | 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.
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| 16 | 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.
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| 17 | 1914 | - 15 Aug 1914: The Panama Canal opens.
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| 18 | 1917 | - 6 Apr 1917: The United States enters World War I.
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| 19 | 1918 | - 31 Mar 1918: The United States adopts Daylight Savings Time.
- 11 Nov 1918: World War I hostilities end.
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| 20 | 1919 | - 11 Dec 1919: James County, Tennessee is absorbed into Hamilton County, Tennessee. James County had dissolved in bankruptcy on April 15, 1919.
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| 21 | 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.
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| 22 | 1923 | - 15 Sep 1923: Oklahoma is placed under martial law due to terrorist activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
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| 23 | 1925 | - 10 Jul 1925—21 Jul 1925: The Scopes "Monkey Trial" is held in Dayton, Rhea County, Tennessee.
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| 24 | 1926 | - 2 Jul 1926: Congress creates the Army Air Corps.
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| 25 | 1927 | - 20 May 1927: Charles Lindbergh completes the first transatlantic flight and lands The Spirit of St. Louis in Paris, France at age 25. His flight lasts 33½ hours.
- 6 Oct 1927: The Jazz Singer, the first commercial motion picture with partial sound, is released.
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| 26 | 1929 | - 29 Oct 1929—1933: The stock market crashes. The Great Depression lasts for 42 months and into 1933.
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| 27 | 1930 | - 1930: United States population — 122,775,046.
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| 28 | 1931 | - 1 Sep 1931: The Bank Panic begins.
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| 29 | 1933 | - 4 Mar 1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as President of the United States at age 51.
- 12 Mar 1933: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt broadcasts his first radio "fireside chat."
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| 30 | 1935 | - 14 Aug 1935: The Social Security Act is signed into law.
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| 31 | 1937 | - 1937—1938: A depression lasts for 10 months and into 1938.
- 6 May 1937: The Hindenburg dirigible bursts into flames while landing at Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey.
- 2 Jul 1937: Amelia Earhart disappears in a flight over the Pacific Ocean at almost age 40.
- 21 Sep 1937: J.R.R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit, the prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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| 32 | 1938 | - 30 Oct 1938: Orson Welles creates a national panic with his Invasion from Mars radio broadcast at age 23.
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| 33 | 1940 | - 1940: United States population — 131,669,275.
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| 34 | 1941 | - 24 Nov 1941: The United States Supreme Court invalidates the California "Anti-Okie" statute that made it a misdemeanor to bring an indigent non-resident into California. [The statute was primarily targeted against Dust Bowl migrants.]
- 7 Dec 1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II.
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| 35 | 1944 | - 6 Jun 1944: The Allies launch the Normandy Invasion in France to begin the end of World War II.
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| 36 | 1945 | - 12 Apr 1945: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia at age 63.
- 8 May 1945: VE Day is proclaimed.
- 6 Aug 1945: An atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
- 9 Aug 1945: An atom bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 2 Sep 1945: VJ Day is proclaimed as the Japanese formally surrender to General Douglas MacArthur on board The Missouri.
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| 37 | 1950 | - 1950: United States population — 150,697,361.
- 1 Jul 1950: United States military forces land in Korea.
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| 38 | 1951 | - 19 Apr 1951: General Douglas MacArthur gives his Old Soldiers Never Die speech to Congress at age 71.
- 21 Jun 1951: CBS makes the first color telecast.
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| 39 | 1953 | - 25 Jul 1953: Armistice is signed in Korea.
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1886 - 1954 (67 years)