The plane weighed pounds and was powered by a 12 horsepower gasoline engine. The craft is referred to as an airship and Orville and Wright were looking for buyers for their machine which was capable of speeds up to 10 mph. The theater had only been open for just over a month. This is still the worst single-building fire in U. Harold Smith introduce the world to Crayola Crayons for school kids.
The first boxes consisted of 8 different colors and the boxes were the same trademark color of yellow and green they are today. The Entente Cordiale , The Anglo-French agreement whereby they agreed to an ongoing friendly diplomacy, the settling of earlier differences, and to cooperate against Germany's increasingly prominent role in European affairs.
It was not an alliance, but an agreement for international cooperation. Edward VII's favoring of France was said to have given it some support. It had heralded the arrival of a new kind of international polity. Louis, Missouri in the United States. The Nickelodeon , The world's first nickelodeon opened showing a silent film called The Great Train Robbery the name was used as it cost 5 cents or a nickel to watch the movie or live vaudeville acts.
It was to be important in the development of Russian industry, military control of its provinces, and external Imperial influence. It had been built from , from both its eastern and western termini, and required a Chinese agreement as to its use of its Manchurian territories. The Russo-Japanese War of had meant that a more northerly route would have to be used. Illiteracy in the US , In , illiteracy in the U. Statistics showed that 6,, persons were illiterate in America. This is due to the superior schools in the towns and the more general attendance of children.
Underground Fire France , An underground fire sparks a massive explosion that spreads through a series of mines killing over men in Courrieres, France. Mount Vesuvius Erupted , Vesuvius erupted on April 4th , , and its southern slope vented to about 1, meters. Its lava flow had stopped by the 5th, when a new effusion started on the Casa Fiorenza. This one went up to about meters when a third one had occurred on the shoreline.
The volcano's eruptions had become stronger throughout April 7th and the crater rim cracked and lava flowed. The 8th of April had started a number of explosive ruptures and the cone started to effuse a large amount of fume. The eruptions lasted until April 21st. Earthquake San Francisco , An earthquake, measuring 7. The earthquake caused large parts of the city to burn and it had taken 2 days of constant fire fighting to stop the spread and bring the fires under control.
Immigrant Workers in Canada , Toronto faced a throng of immigrant workers who faced poverty and starvation unless employment could be found for them. The worst off were people from Bulgaria who were in danger of perishing in a matter of days. Florida's southern half was a wilderness of mangrove swamps. Bill Cody, personification of the Wild West, was only The nation was in many ways unfair, unpleasant and violent. Kids worked in coal mines and steel mills.
In 26 states, marriage between whites and blacks was illegal. Anarchists terrorized big cities. Pat Garrett, the already legendary lawman, was shot down on a dusty road in New Mexico that February.
Yet America contained plenty of glimpses of America People rode subways, spoke on the telephone and lit their homes with electricity. It was the year the sacrifice fly became an official stat for the first time, the year that "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" was written on a scrap of paper on a train ride, and the year Abner Doubleday officially got credit for inventing baseball. As the Cubs focus on breaking the "Curse of the Billy Goat," we thought it would be fun to harken back to the days when the average hourly wage in the U.
Below is a look back at the highlights from Spangler invented the upright portable vacuum and the Hoover Company acquired the rights to manufacture it. Also in October, Ferdinand I of Austria declared Bulgaria an independent kingdom and appointed himself tzar.
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