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1909
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As of the start of 1909, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 5 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama, january 16 – Ernest Shackletons expedition claims to have found the magnetic South Pole. January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic sinks the day after a collision with SS Florida, in the first recorded use of the CQD emergency radio signal for a large passenger vessel, one person, a male passenger, is lost on the Republic. January 28 – The last United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish–American War of 1898, february 5 – Leo Baekeland announces the creation of bakelite hard thermosetting plastic. March 4 – William Howard Taft is sworn in as President of the United States, march 10 – The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 is signed in Bangkok. March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster. March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the Baháí Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, march 31 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. April 4 – The association football team Sport Club Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre, april 6 – Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Inuit explorers, Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo, and Egigingwah, come within a few miles of the North Pole. April 11 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded by the Jewish community on the outskirts of Jaffa, april 13 – Ottoman countercoup begins in the Ottoman Empire. April 14 – Adana massacre, Ottoman Turks kill 15, 000–30,000 Armenian Christians in the Adana Vilayet, april 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. April 19 – The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, modern-day BP, is incorporated, april 27 – Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V. He is sent to the Ottoman port city of Thessaloniki the next day, may 13–30 – First Giro dItalia bicycle race, starting and finishing in Milan, Luigi Ganna is the winner. June 2 – French forces capture Abéché, capital of the Wadai Empire in central Africa, june 15 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords Cricket Ground and form the Imperial Cricket Conference. July 16 – A revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah of the Qajar dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar and he proceeds to leave Persia for Imperial Russia, reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II of Russia in regaining the throne. July 25 – Louis Blériot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft, july 25–August 2 – Tragic Week, The city of Barcelona experiences a workers uprising. August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the worlds first military airplane, august 8 – Max Heindel formally founds the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Seattle, United States. August 12 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens in the United States, september 4 – Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando Treaty, which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in Manchuria. October 8 – An earthquake in the Zagreb area leads Andrija Mohorovičić to identify the Mohorovičić discontinuity, october 12 - The association football team Coritiba is founded in Curitiba, Brazil
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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1907 in the United States
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Events from the year 1907 in the United States. January 23 – Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American U. S. Senator, february 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound,183 lives are lost. February 26 – President Theodore Roosevelt appoints Col. George Washington Goethals as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, march 9 – Reclamation Service within the Department of the Interior. April – The April 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine displays the cover price One Dollar a Year, April 7 – Hersheypark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April 15 – Triangle, is founded at Pennsylvania State University, April 17 – April 17 goes down as the busiest day of immigration in the history Ellis Island. 1907 is the busiest year ever seen at Ellis Island, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving there, April 18 – The USS Kansas, a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned. July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, august 1 – Aeronautical Division established within the U. S. Army Signal Corps. August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr, raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, Priest-Apostolic to America and the West Indies. August 17 – Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business, august 28 – UPS is founded by James E. September 7 – The new passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, september 29 – A foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral, construction would not be fully completed until 1990. October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice, october 22 – Panic of 1907, A bank run forces New Yorks Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations. October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. November 3 – President Roosevelt approves the takeover of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, november 7 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University in New York City. November 16 Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U. S. state, passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the worlds largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. November 28 – Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural Yonkers Marathon, December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster, A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia. December 16 – The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe, December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239. December 31 – The first electric ball drops in Times Square, the Lockport Powerhouse is built in Illinois. Progressive Era Lochner era Black Patch Tobacco Wars Great White Fleet voyage January 2 – Gordon L. Allott, January 19 – Paul Fannin, United States Senator from Arizona from 1959 till 1965
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1908 in the United States
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Events from the year 1908 in the United States. President, Theodore Roosevelt Vice President, Charles W. Gustav Mahler makes US conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Georgia introduces a law prohibiting alcohol. January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, the tragedy is a catalyst for stricter fire safety laws nationwide. January 15 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is established, january 21 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only for it to be vetoed by the mayor. February 12 The first around-the-world car race, begins in New York City, division of Militia Affairs with the War Department. February 18 – Japanese immigration to the U. S. A. is restricted under the Gentlemens Agreement of 1907, february 25 – The Bible Institute of Los Angeles is founded. February 27 – A 46th star is added to the United States flag representing the state of Oklahoma, march 4 – The Collinwood School Fire, near Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A. kills 174. March 26 – The US Thomas Flyer car sails for Alaska at the head of a race from New York to Paris. April 8 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School, April 19 – The Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, designed by Jens Jensen, opens to the public for the first time. April 24 – The seventh deadliest tornado in U. S. history strikes the towns of Amite, Louisiana, Pine, Louisiana and Purvis, Mississippi, killing 143 and injuring 770. May 10 – Mothers Day is observed for the first time, at Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, June 20 – The Georgia Tech Alumni Association is chartered in Atlanta, Georgia. July 22 – The automobile manufacturing company Fisher Body is founded, july 26 – Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner. August 14 – Springfield Race Riot of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, august 31 – A charter is granted for Wayland Literary and Technical Institute in Plainview, Texas. September 16 – William C. Durant founds the company which eventually becomes General Motors, september 17 – At Ft. Myer, Virginia, U. S. A. Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash, the pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash but recovers. September 27 – Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile, october 1 – The launch price for the Ford Model T is set as $850. October 13 – The Church of the Nazarene is organized officially at Pilot Point and this is the official birthday of the denomination. October 14 – The Chicago Cubs win the 1908 World Series defeating the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 and they would not win again until November 2016, which stands as the longest championship drought in sports history
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1910 in the United States
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Events from the year 1910 in the United States. President, William Howard Taft Vice President, James S. February 8 – The Boy Scouts of America youth organization is incorporated by William D. Boyce, February 16–18 – The state of Ohio is crippled by a snowstorm. March 14 – The Lakeview Gusher is vented into the atmosphere, march 19 – In the United States, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence committee membership. March 30 – The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi, april 6 – Wildwood Crest, New Jersey is incorporated as a borough of Cape May County, New Jersey. May 11 – The U. S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana, may 16 – The U. S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines. June 19 – The first unofficial Fathers Day is observed, july 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the S. S. Montrose results in the identification and later arrest, july 24 – James MacGillivray publishes the first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News. August 20 &21 – The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about 3 million acres in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, october 11 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first former president to ride in an airplane. November – John Lomaxs pioneering collection Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is published by Sturgis, november 4 – Antonio Rodríguez is burned at the stake near Rocksprings, Texas after being arrested two days earlier for the murder of Mrs. Lem Henderson at her ranch. His murder incites race riots in both Texas and Mexico, november 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. The trip is flown by Wright pilot Philip Parmalee, november 17 – Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team, dies at Denver, Colorado after his machine breaks apart in mid air in full view of about 5,000 spectators. Johnstone becomes the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States and they later arrive at the Jekyll Island Club to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, an event which some say is the impetus for the creation of the Federal Reserve. December 12 – New York City socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears and her family does not notify the police until 6 weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results. December 19 – Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States, december 31 – Two of Americas premier pioneer aviators are killed on this day, John Moisant in New Orleans and Wright pilot Arch Hoxsey in Los Angeles. US census shows that 20. 9% of the population classed as Negro are of mixed race, progressive Era Lochner era List of American films of 1910 Media related to 1910 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons
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1911 in the United States
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Events from the year 1911 in the United States. President, William Howard Taft Vice President, James S, january 18 – Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship. January 30 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea, saving the life of John McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, january - The Masses socialist magazine begins publication. March – The first installment of a version of Frederick Winslow Taylors monograph, The Principles of Scientific Management. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues, March 10 – The Kansas legislature approves House Bill Number 906, effectively the first blue sky law in the United States, culminating an effort by Joseph Norman Dolley, Kansas banking commissioner. March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146, March 29 – The United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation. April 13 – Mexican Revolution, Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border, April 17 – Southern Methodist University is chartered. April 27 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, April 30 – Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine. May 15 – The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act. May 23 – The main branch of the New York Public Library is officially opened, may 30 – The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon Wasp, june 5 – Charles F. Kettering files US patent 1,150,523, for an electric Engine Starting Device. June 15 – IBM is incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in New York, june 16 – A 772-gram stony meteorite strikes earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin, near the village of Kilbourn, damaging a barn. July 24 – Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu, august 8 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. August 29 – Ishi, last known member of the Yana people, september 11 – Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School. September 25 – Groundbreaking for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, september 30 – Austin Dam breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania, and continuing downstream about 8 miles into the village of Costello. October 7 – Outlaw Elmer McCurdy and associates are chased after trying to rob a train in Oklahoma, McCurdy on the run is eventually hunted down and shot by authorities. His body is never claimed and later is chemically petrified, afterwards his remains serve as sideshow attractions in carnivals until 1976 when they are diagnosed by forensic experts to be McCurdy. McCurdys body is buried in 1976 after a 65-year Odyssey to the grave
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Flag of the United States
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The flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States. S. Nicknames for the flag include The Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, the current design of the U. S. flag is its 27th, the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777. The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4,1959, the 50-star flag was ordered by the then president Eisenhower on August 21,1959, and was adopted in July 1960. It is the version of the U. S. flag and has been in use for over 56 years. At the time of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, the flag contemporaneously known as the Continental Colors has historically been referred to as the first national flag. The name Grand Union was first applied to the Continental Colors by George Preble in his 1872 history of the American flag, the flag closely resembles the British East India Company flag of the era, and Sir Charles Fawcett argued in 1937 that the company flag inspired the design. Both flags could have been constructed by adding white stripes to a British Red Ensign. However, an East India Company flag could have nine to 13 stripes. In any case, both the stripes and the stars have precedents in classical heraldry, Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year. While scholars still argue about this, tradition holds that the new flag was first hoisted in June 1777 by the Continental Army at the Middlebrook encampment. The first official U. S. flag flown during battle was on August 3,1777, Massachusetts reinforcements brought news of the adoption by Congress of the official flag to Fort Schuyler. A voucher is extant that Capt. Swartwout of Dutchess County was paid by Congress for his coat for the flag, the 1777 resolution was most probably meant to define a naval ensign. In the late 18th century, the notion of a flag did not yet exist. The flag resolution appears between other resolutions from the Marine Committee, on May 10,1779, Secretary of the Board of War Richard Peters expressed concern it is not yet settled what is the Standard of the United States. However, the term, Standard, referred to a standard for the Army of the United States. Each regiment was to carry the standard in addition to its regimental standard. The national standard was not a reference to the national or naval flag, the appearance was up to the maker of the flag. Some flag makers arranged the stars into one big star, in a circle or in rows, one arrangement features 13 five-pointed stars arranged in a circle, with the stars arranged pointing outwards from the circle, the so-called Betsy Ross flag
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Timeline of United States history
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This is a timeline of United States history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political and economic events in the United States and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of the United States, some dates before September 14,1752, when the British government adopted the Gregorian calendar, may be given in the Old Style
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William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, Taft was born in Cincinnati in 1857. His father, Alphonso Taft, was a U. S. Attorney General, William Taft attended Yale and was a member of Skull and Bones secret society like his father, and after becoming a lawyer was appointed a judge while still in his twenties. He continued a rapid rise, being named Solicitor General and as a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 1901, President William McKinley appointed Taft civilian governor of the Philippines. In 1904, Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and he became Roosevelts hand-picked successor, despite his personal ambition to become chief justice, Taft declined repeated offers of appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States, believing his political work to be more important. With Roosevelts help, Taft had little opposition for the Republican nomination for president in 1908, in the White House, he focused on East Asia more than European affairs, and repeatedly intervened to prop up or remove Latin American governments. Taft sought reductions to trade tariffs, then a source of governmental income. Controversies over conservation and over antitrust cases filed by the Taft administration served to separate the two men. Roosevelt challenged Taft for renomination in 1912, Taft used his control of the party machinery to gain a bare majority of delegates, and Roosevelt bolted the party. The split left Taft with little chance of re-election, he took only Utah, after leaving office, Taft returned to Yale as a professor, continuing his political activity and working against war through the League to Enforce Peace. In 1921, President Harding appointed Taft as chief justice, an office he had long sought, Chief Justice Taft was a conservative on business issues, but under him, there were advances in individual rights. In poor health, he resigned in February 1930, after his death the next month, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the first president and first Supreme Court justice to be interred there. Taft is generally listed near the middle in historians rankings of U. S. presidents, William Howard Taft was born September 15,1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alphonso Taft and Louise Torrey. The Taft family was not wealthy, living in a modest home in the suburb of Mount Auburn, Alphonso served as a judge, ambassador and in the cabinet, as War Secretary and Attorney General under Ulysses S. Grant. William Taft was not seen as brilliant as a child, but was a worker, Tafts demanding parents pushed him and his four brothers toward success. He attended Woodward High School in Cincinnati, at Yale College, which he entered in 1874, the heavyset, jovial Taft was popular. One classmate described him succeeding through hard work rather than being the smartest, in 1878, Taft graduated, second in his class out of 121. He attended Cincinnati Law School, and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1880, while in law school, he worked on The Cincinnati Commercial newspaper, edited by Murat Halstead
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