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1900
Hurricane ravages Galveston, Tex.; 6,000–8,000
dead. Fauvist movement in painting begins, led by
Henri Matisse. Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation
of Dreams. Carrie Chapman Catt succeeds Susan B.
Anthony as president of National Woman Suffrage
Association.
1901
Queen Victoria dies, and is succeeded by her son,
Edward VII. As President McKinley begins second
term, he is shot fatally by anarchist Leon
Czolgosz. Theodore Roosevelt sworn in as
successor.
1902
Enrico Caruso's first gramophone recording. Aswan
Dam completed.
1903
Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, fly first
powered, controlled, heavier-than-air plane at
Kitty Hawk, N.C. Henry Ford organizes Ford Motor
Company. The Boston Red Sox win the first World
Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. W.E.B. Du
Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk.
1904
Russo-Japanese War begins—competition for Korea
and Manchuria. Entente Cordiale: Britain and
France settle their international differences.
General theory of radioactivity by Rutherford and
Soddy. New York City subway opens.
1905
In Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur surrenders to
Japanese; Russia suffers other defeats. President
Roosevelt mediates Treaty of Portsmouth, N.H.,
which recognizes Japan's control of Korea and
restores southern Manchuria to China. The Russian
Revolution of 1905 begins on “Bloody Sunday” when
troops fire onto a defenseless group of
demonstrators in St. Petersburg. Strikes and riots
follow. Sailors on battleship Potemkin mutiny;
reforms, including first Duma (parliament),
established by Czar Nicholas II's “October
Manifesto.” Albert Einstein's special theory of
relativity and other key theories in physics.
Franz Lehar's Merry Widow.
1906
San Francisco earthquake and three-day fire; more
than 500 dead. Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer,
fixes magnetic North Pole.
1907
Second Hague Peace Conference, of 46 nations,
adopts 10 conventions on rules of war. Financial
panic of 1907 in U.S. Mahler begins work on “Song
of the Earth.” Oklahoma becomes 46th state.
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon introduces
cubism.
1908
Earthquake kills 150,000 in southern Italy and
Sicily. U.S. Supreme Court, in Danbury Hatters'
case, outlaws secondary union boycotts. Model T
produced by Ford Motor Company.
1909
North Pole reportedly reached by American
explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson. The
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People is founded in New York by prominent
black and white intellectuals and led by W.E.B. Du
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