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William McKinley | USA: Theodore Roosevelt (President) | USA: William H. Taft (Pres.) | USA: Woodrow Wilson (Pres.) | USA: Warren Harding (Pres.) | USA: Calvin Coolidge (Pres.) | |||||||||||||||||||
Melville Fuller (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) | Melville Fuller (Chief Justice) | William H. Taft (Chief Justice) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
David Henderson (Speaker of the House) | Joseph Cannon (Speaker of the House) | Champ Clark (Speaker of the House) | Frederick Gillett (Speaker of the House) | |||||||||||||||||||||
UK: Queen Victoria | UK: King _Edward_ VII | UK: _George_ V | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Marquess of Salisbury | UK: Arthur James Balfour | UK: Henry Campbell-Bannerman | UK: Herbert Asquith | UK: David _Lloyd George | Andrew _Bonar Law | Stanley Baldwin | Ramsay Macdonald | |||||||||||||||||
Canada: Wilfred Laurier | Canada: Robert Borden | Arthur Meighen | Canada: William Lyons Mackenzie King | |||||||||||||||||||||
Australia: Edmund Barton | Alfred Deakin | John Watson | George Reid | Alfred Deakin | Andrew Fisher | Alfred Deakin | Australia: Andrew Fisher | Joseph Cook | Andrew Fisher | Australia: William Morris Hughes | Australia: Stanley Bruce | |||||||||||||
India: George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Keddleston | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond, 4th Earl of Minto | India: Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron of Penshurst | India: Frederick Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford | India: Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading | ||||||||||||||||||||
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France: 3rd Republic | Georges Clemenceau (Premier) | France: 3rd Republic | Aristide Briand (PM) | Georges Clemenceau (PM) | France: 3rd Republic | |||||||||||||||||||
First World War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deutschland: Kaiser _Wilhelm_ II | Deutschland: Weimar Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Österreich-Ungarn: Kaiser _Franz Ferdinand_ II | Ö-U: Kaiser Karl I | Österreich | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Magyaroszag: Bela Kun | Magyaroszag: Nikolaus Miklos _Horthy_ de Nagybanya | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Polska | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rossiya: Tsar _Nikolai_ II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rossiya: Lenin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balkan Wars | Russian Civil War | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Pope _Leo_ XIII | Pope _Pius_ X | Pope _Benedict_ XV | Pope _Pius_ XI | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Nihon: (Meiji Emperor) Mutsuhito | Nihon: (Taisho Emperor) Yoshihito | Nihon: Emperor Yoshihito (Prince Hirohito, Regent) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chung Kuo: Emperor Guangxu | Chung Kuo: Pu Yi, Emperor Xuantong | Chung Kuo: _Yuan Shikai | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mexico: Porfirio Diaz | Mexico: Venustiano Carranza | Mexico: Alvaro Obregón | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mexican Revolution | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sound Recording: Discs replace cylinders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Palace at Knossos, Crete, excavated | Gillette safety razor | Wright Brothers' Flyer airplane | Diode thermionic valve (radio tube) | Cathode-ray picture tube (CRT) demonstrated | Victrola, first all-enclosed cabinet phonograph | Lee-Enfield rifle | American Viscose Company synthetic fabric Rayon | Electric starter for automobiles | Vickers machine gun | V-8 automobile engine | Villar Perosa submachine gun | Mark 1 Mother battle tank | Mustard gas | Lever Brothers Rinso granulated laundry detergent | Dial telephone | Molecular chain structure of polymers uncovered | Insulin recognized as metabolizing glucose | Technicolor for motion pictures | Popsicle | Birdseye frozen fish fillets | ||||
Galveston Hurricane | Instant coffee | Hormones (secretin) discovered | Electrocardiogram | Novocaine | Permanent waves in hair | Vitamin-D fortified milk | Magnavox moving-coil loudspeaker | Teletype machine | Chlorine gas | Kotex sanitary napkins | Four-wheel hydraulic brakes | Band-Aid adhesive bandages | Tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen discovered | Duco lacquer paint on GM cars | Kleenex disposible facial tissues | |||||||||
Zeppelin LZ airship | M1903 Springfield rifle | HMS Dreadnought warship | Sopwith Camel fighter aircraft | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Acoustico electric hearing aid | Tyrannosaurus rex | First edited fiction motion picture: The Great Train Robbery | Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity | Audion triode amplifier | Fossilized duckbill dinosaur discovered with skin, tendons and flesh | Recognition that genes are carried on chromosomes | Shipwreck: Titanic | Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | First jazz record: "Livery Stable Blues" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band | HMS Furious & HMS Hermes aircraft carriers | First scheduled radio broadcast: KDKA, Pittsburgh | Bacillus Calmette-Guerin tuberculosis vaccine | Ur excavated | First hit country record: Fiddlin' John Carson's Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane | ||||||||||
Max Planck's quantum hypothesis | Fokker E fighter aircraft | Barbasol Shave Cream | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Trans-atlantic radio transmission | Ice cream cone | San Francisco Earthquake | Bloody Mary | Thompson submachine gun | Balloon tires | |||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated December 2001
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