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Date |
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| 1 | 1881 | - 4 Mar 1881: James A. Garfield takes office as the 20th president of the United States.
- 19 Sep 1881: James A. Garfield assassinated; Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president of the United States.
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| 2 | 1883 | - 1883: Edison invents the Light Bulb
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| 3 | 1885 | - 4 Mar 1885: Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd president of the United States.
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| 4 | 1889 | - 4 Mar 1889: Benjamin Harrison sworn in as the 23rd president of the United States.
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| 5 | 1893 | - 4 Mar 1893: Grover Cleveland becomes the 24th president of the United States. He is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
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| 6 | 1897 | - 4 Mar 1897: William McKinley becomes the 25th president of the United States.
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| 7 | 1901 | - 14 Sep 1901: William McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president of the United States.
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| 8 | 1908 | - 1908: Ford's Model T is introduced
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| 9 | 1909 | - 4 Mar 1909: William Howard Taft becomes the 27th President of the United States.
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| 10 | 1913 | - 4 Mar 1913: Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th president of the United States.
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| 11 | 1914 | - 28 Jun 1914: Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated; start of World War I
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| 12 | 1917 | - 6 Apr 1917: United States officially enters World War I
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| 13 | 1921 | - 4 Mar 1921: Warren G. Harding becomes the 29th president of the United States.
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| 14 | 1923 | - 2 Aug 1923: Warren G. Harding dies in office of natural causes; Calvin Coolidge sworn in as 30th president of the United States.
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| 15 | 1927 | - May 1927: Charles Lindberg makes first Solo flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris
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| 16 | 1929 | - Oct 1929: Stock Market crashes
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| 17 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; U.S. Declares war on Japan the following day
- 11 Dec 1941: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States
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1880 - 1953 (73 years)