...Date... AGE Event
1889/--/-- -1 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1889/--/-- -1 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd U.S. president.
1889/--/-- -1 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria commits suicide at Mayerling.
1889/--/-- -1 - German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is exiled in Switzerland.
1889/--/-- -1 - Gustave Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition.
1889/--/-- -1 - Japan's first prime minister Ito Hirobumi introduces the Meiji Constitution.
1889/--/-- -1 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- -1 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- -1 - North Dakota and South Dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- -1 - North Dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- -1 - Pedro II emperor of Brazil is overthrown in a coup; Brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- -1 - South Dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- -1 - Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/01/21 0 *** Harlan, Quintice - Born to Harlan, George Washington and Bowman, Martha (Harlan)
1890/--/-- 0 - AFL founded by S Gompers
1890/--/-- 0 - American naval officer Alfred Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
1890/--/-- 0 - American psychologist William James publishes The Principles of Psychology.
1890/--/-- 0 - Cecil Rhodes becomes prime minister of the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1890/--/-- 0 - Claude Debussy begins composing Suite Bergamasque, including Clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 0 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 0 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor William II.
1890/--/-- 0 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 0 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 0 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore publishes Manasi (The Mind's Embodiment).
1890/--/-- 0 - Photographer Jacob Riis documents New York's poor in How the Other Half Lives.
1890/--/-- 0 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890/--/-- 0 - Sioux Indians are massacred at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
1890/--/-- 0 - The British South Africa Company occupies Zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the Ndebele.
1890/--/-- 0 - The Forth Railway Bridge is opened, replacing the Brooklyn Bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 0 - Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 0 - Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate.
1891/--/-- 1 - Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde publishes his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1891/--/-- 1 - English novelist Thomas Hardy writes Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 1 - Eugene Dubois discovers the first Homo erectus remains on Java in Indonesia.
1891/--/-- 1 - French postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti.
1891/--/-- 1 - James Naismith devises the game of basketball in Springfield, Mass.
1891/--/-- 1 - The American Express Company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1892/--/-- 2 - French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints At the Moulin Rouge.
1892/--/-- 2 - Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne completes the Card Players.
1892/--/-- 2 - James J. Corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan.
1892/--/-- 2 - Strike at Carnegie Steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 2 - The San Francisco Examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 2 - Writer and political revolutionary Jose Marti founds the Cuban Revolutionary party.
1893/--/-- 3 - American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany begins producing Art Nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 3 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 3 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina
1893/--/-- 3 - France adds Laos to the Union of Indochina.
1893/--/-- 3 - Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule Bill is vetoed by the House of Lords in Britain.
1893/--/-- 3 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1893/--/-- 3 - Queen Liliuokalani is ousted in Hawaii; Sanford B. Dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 3 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1893/--/-- 3 - Victor Horta's Tassel House in Brussels initiates the Art Nouveau architectural style.
1893/12/31 4 *** Harlan, Eary W. [Brother] - Born to Harlan, George Washington and Bowman, Martha (Harlan)
1894/--/-- 4 - Britain establishes a protectorate over Buganda and conquers the rest of Uganda.
1894/--/-- 4 - Czech decorative artist Alfons Mucha designs a poster of Sarah Bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 4 - Dreyfus case splits France
1894/--/-- 4 - English artist Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Oscar Wilde's Salome.
1894/--/-- 4 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.
1894/--/-- 4 - Percival Lowell builds an observatory to study the Martian canals.
1894/--/-- 4 - Rebellion in Korea begins the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894/--/-- 4 - The arrest of army captain Albert Dreyfus creates a political crisis in France.
1894/--/-- 4 - Thousands of Armenians are massacred in Turkey.
1895/--/-- 5 - Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895/--/-- 5 - Japan defeats China; the Shimonoseki Treaty establishes Korean independence.
1895/--/-- 5 - Louis and Auguste Lumiere show the first motion pictures to a Paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 5 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin is exiled to Siberia.
1895/--/-- 5 - Sir Henry Irving becomes the first British actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 5 - The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is founded.
1895/--/-- 5 - The Cuban War of Independence begins against Spain; Jose Marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 5 - The Jameson Raid on the Boer republic of Transvaal increases anti-British hostility.
1895/--/-- 5 - The first list of best-selling books is published by The Bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 5 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 5 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1896/--/-- 6 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- 6 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- 6 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- 6 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 6 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 6 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 6 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1897/--/-- 7 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 7 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 7 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 7 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 7 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 7 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 7 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 7 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 7 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 7 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 7 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 7 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1898/--/-- 8 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 8 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 8 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 8 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 8 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 8 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 8 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 8 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 8 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 8 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 8 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 8 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 8 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 8 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 8 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 8 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1898/07/31 9 *** Bray, Hobart [Nephew] - Born to Bray, James Ewel and Harlan, Louisa Jane (Bray)
1899/--/-- 9 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 9 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 9 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 9 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 9 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 9 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 9 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 9 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 9 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
1900/--/-- 10 - American novelist Theodore Dreiser publishes his first novel Sister Carrie.
1900/--/-- 10 - An international force lifts the Boxer siege of Peking.
1900/--/-- 10 - British politician Keir Hardie helps to found the Labour party.
1900/--/-- 10 - Chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.
1900/--/-- 10 - Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 10 - Hawaii is made a U.S. Territory; Sanford Dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 10 - Hector Guimard uses Art Nouveau designs for the entrances to the Paris Metro.
1900/--/-- 10 - Humbert I is assassinated; he is succeeded by Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy.
1900/--/-- 10 - Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio publishes The Flame of Life.
1900/--/-- 10 - James J. Jeffries beats Jim Corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 10 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 10 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1900/--/-- 10 - Sir Arthur Evans begins the excavation of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete.
1900/--/-- 10 - The Boers begin a guerrilla war against the British occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 10 - The British defeat the Boer (Afrikaner) armies in South Africa and occupy Pretoria.
1900/--/-- 10 - The U.S. wins the first Davis Cup tennis contest.
1901/--/-- 11 - A 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in Russia.
1901/--/-- 11 - A stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi is discovered in Susa, Iran.
1901/--/-- 11 - American surgeon Walter Reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 11 - An American League of baseball is formed in competition to the National League.
1901/--/-- 11 - Andrew Carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 11 - Britain incorporates Ashanti territory into the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1901/--/-- 11 - English author Beatrix Potter publishes her children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
1901/--/-- 11 - Guglielmo Marconi tests radio transmissions between England and Newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 11 - King C. Gillette founds the American Safety Razor Company.
1901/--/-- 11 - Pres. McKinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 11 - President McKinley is assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 11 - Queen Victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son Edward VII.
1901/--/-- 11 - Russia occupies Manchuria in north-east China.
1901/--/-- 11 - Sergei Rachmaninoff writes his Second Piano Concerto.
1901/--/-- 11 - Sir Edward Elgar composes the first of his five Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
1901/--/-- 11 - Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's Blue Period begins.
1901/--/-- 11 - Temperance advocate Carry Nation uses a hatchet to attack a Kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 11 - The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 11 - The first U.S. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 11 - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1901/--/-- 11 - Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th U.S. president.
1901/--/-- 11 - Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs help found the American Socialist party.
1901/01/02 11 - Edward VII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1902/--/-- 12 - American artist Robert Henri paints the New York street scene West 57th Street.
1902/--/-- 12 - Conan Doyle writes the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 12 - English author Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
1902/--/-- 12 - French filmmaker Georges Melies produces A Trip to the Moon.
1902/--/-- 12 - Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 12 - Maksim Gorky's The Lower Depths is produced at the Moscow Art Theater.
1902/--/-- 12 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1902/--/-- 12 - Roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 12 - The Photo-Secession group is founded in New York by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 12 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the South African War.
1902/08/-- 13 - Edward VII crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India at Wes
1903/--/-- 13 - Alexander, King of Serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by Peter I.
1903/--/-- 13 - American author Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild.
1903/--/-- 13 - American novelist Henry James publishes The Ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 13 - Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman is produced in London.
1903/--/-- 13 - Colonel Francis Younghusband leads a British military expedition into Tibet.
1903/--/-- 13 - Edwin S. Porter directs the pioneering Western film The Great Train Robbery.
1903/--/-- 13 - Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
1903/--/-- 13 - Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 13 - Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 13 - Panama declares its independence from Columbia; the U.S. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 13 - The Rolls-Royce automobile company is founded in Britain.
1903/--/-- 13 - The U.S. acquires perpetual control over the Panama Canal Zone.
1903/--/-- 13 - The first World Series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 13 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin organizes the Bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 13 - Wright Bros. first airplane
1903/04/26 14 *** Arnold, Flora Belle (Bunch) [Niece] - Born to Arnold, Lucian A. and Harlan, Mary Belle
1903/05/01 14 *** Arnold, Luther B. [Brother] - Born to Arnold, Lucian A. and Bowman, Martha (Harlan) Barren County Kentucky
1903/10/-- 14 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (3) AL BOSTON (5)
1904/--/-- 14 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 14 - Ivan Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the Nobel Prize.
1904/--/-- 14 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan is produced in London.
1904/--/-- 14 - Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
1904/--/-- 14 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America
1904/--/-- 14 - Russia and Japan at war
1904/--/-- 14 - Russian author Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 14 - Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
1904/--/-- 14 - The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin.
1904/--/-- 14 - The New York City subway is opened.
1904/10/14 15 *** Bowman, Ozias Denton [Grandfather] - Died Skaggs Creek Cem. Monroe County KY
1905/--/-- 15 *** Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan) & Harlan, John Thomas [Brother] - Married
1905/--/-- 15 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 15 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- 15 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 15 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- 15 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- 15 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- 15 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- 15 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 15 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- 15 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- 15 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 15 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 15 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 15 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 15 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- 15 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- 15 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- 15 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- 15 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/07/26 16 *** Arnold, John Leslie [Nephew] - Born to Arnold, Lucian A. and Harlan, Mary Belle Metcalfe County Kentucky
1905/09/13 16 *** Harlan, Arthur [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, John Thomas and Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan)
1905/10/-- 16 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
1906/--/-- 16 - British author John Galsworthy publishes the first novel of The Forsythe Saga.
1906/--/-- 16 - H.M.S. Dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 16 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traverses the Northwest Passage.
1906/--/-- 16 - The Aga Khan III forms the All-India Moslim League.
1906/--/-- 16 - The Dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 16 - The San Francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 16 - Under the Platt Amendment U.S. troops return to Cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 16 - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle leads to the U.S. Pure Foods and Drugs Act.
1906/10/-- 17 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1907/--/-- 17 - A Triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia.
1907/--/-- 17 - Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.
1907/--/-- 17 - Irish playwright J.M. Synge writes The Playboy of the Western World.
1907/--/-- 17 - Lee De Forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 17 - Oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the Union.
1907/--/-- 17 - Rasputin gains influence at the court of Russian emperor Nicholas II.
1907/--/-- 17 - The Panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the U.S. stock market.
1907/--/-- 17 - The first Ziegfeld Follies are staged in New York City.
1907/09/07 18 *** Harlan, Walter T. [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, John Thomas and Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan)
1907/10/-- 18 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (0)
1908/--/-- 18 - An earthquake at Messina in Italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 18 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 18 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt paints The Kiss.
1908/--/-- 18 - Automaker William Durant founds the General Motors Company.
1908/--/-- 18 - British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1908/--/-- 18 - Filmmakers Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 18 - GE patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 18 - Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 18 - Kenneth Grahame publishes his children's story The Wind in the Willows.
1908/--/-- 18 - King Leopold II of the Belgians establishes the Independent State of Congo in Africa.
1908/--/-- 18 - Liberal leader Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister of Britain.
1908/--/-- 18 - Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Christian Science Monitor.
1908/--/-- 18 - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 18 - The Ashcan school of painters exhibit in New York City.
1908/--/-- 18 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1908/--/-- 18 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1908/--/-- 18 - The Tunguska fireball explodes in Siberia with the force of a modern H-bomb.
1908/--/-- 18 - The Young Turk Revolution in Turkey leads to political reform.
1908/10/-- 19 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (1)
1909/--/-- 19 - American architect Frank Lloyd Wright builds the Robie House in Chicago.
1909/--/-- 19 - American artist George Bellows paints the prize fight scene Stag at Sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 19 - American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909/--/-- 19 - American poet William Carlos Williams publishes Poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 19 - American writer Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives.
1909/--/-- 19 - French aviator Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel.
1909/--/-- 19 - NAACP in NYC
1909/--/-- 19 - Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev presents the Ballet Russe in Paris.
1909/--/-- 19 - Taft is inaugurated as the 27th U.S. president; Sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 19 - William Howard Taft (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1909/09/24 20 *** Harlan, Floyd [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, John Thomas and Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan)
1909/10/-- 20 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1910/--/-- 20 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 20 - British author Arnold Bennett publishes Clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 20 - British politician Winston Churchill is appointed first lord of the Admiralty.
1910/--/-- 20 - France groups four African territories together as French Equatorial Africa.
1910/--/-- 20 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Dream.
1910/--/-- 20 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin casts the bronze figure The Thinker.
1910/--/-- 20 - Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
1910/--/-- 20 - George V succeeds his father Edward VII as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/--/-- 20 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich synthesizes Salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 20 - Italian artists led by Umberto Boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 20 - Japanese forces annex Korea.
1910/--/-- 20 - Madero, Villa and Zapata lead a revolution against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
1910/--/-- 20 - Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 20 - The Art Deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 20 - The Union of South Africa is formed; Louis Botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 21 - George V succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/10/-- 21 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/--/-- 21 - American aviator Glen Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 21 - American novelist Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome.
1911/--/-- 21 - American songwriter Irving Berlin publishes Alexander's Ragtime Band.
1911/--/-- 21 - Elmer A. Sperry designs the first American gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 21 - English author G.K. Chesterton publishes the first Father Brown story.
1911/--/-- 21 - German-American anthropologist Franz Boas publishes The Mind of Primitive Man.
1911/--/-- 21 - Hans Geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 21 - Italy's attempts to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.
1911/--/-- 21 - Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz is overthrown; Francisco Madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 21 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ahead of Robert Scott.
1911/--/-- 21 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 21 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 21 - Russian artist Marc Chagall paints I and My Village.
1911/--/-- 21 - Sir Ernest Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 21 - The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 21 - The first film studio is established at Hollywood in California.
1911/--/-- 21 - Tibet declares its independence from China.
1911/--/-- 21 - Willis Carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/01/08 21 *** Harlan, Quintice - Died
1911/06/02 22 - George V crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Randa
1911/10/-- 22 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/11/04 22 *** Harlan, Edna [Niece] - Born to Harlan, John Thomas and Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan)
1911/11/04 22 *** Harlan, Luther [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, John Thomas and Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan) Allen County Kentucky
In 1889 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1911 Transportation was by:
Balloon
Propeller airplane
in addition.
In 1889 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
By 1911 Communications was by:
Telephone
in addition.
In 1889 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1889 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1889 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1889 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
By 1911 War Making was by:
TNT
in addition.
In 1889 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:22