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anybody famous besides for the wright brothers
albert einstein
anastasia
amelia earhart???
thankx

2007-12-29 11:58:21 · 2 answers · asked by damselindistress 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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1900: L. Frank Baum writes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
1901: President McKinley began his 2nd term.
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz fatally shot President McKinley.
Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as his successor to Mckinley.
Norwegian Johan Vaaler patented the Paper Clip
Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. Carry A. Nation began her hatchet-wielding prohibition crusade.
1902: Enrico Caruso's first gramophone recording.
Barnum's Animal Crackers were introduced by the National Biscuit Co.
1903: Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, fly first powered, controlled, heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk NC.
Henry Ford organized Ford Motor Company.
King Gillette created the first safety razor.
Thomas Edison produced an early motion picture The Great Train Robbery.
1904: Able Doumar, a Lebanese immigrant, invented the ice cream cone at the world's fair in St. Louis MO when he rolled a waffle from one stall and put ice cream in it from another stall and sold the combination.
Theodore Roosevelt elected President.
1905: Albert Einstein announces his special theory of relativity and other key theories in physics. Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a fictional journey through the Chicago Stockyards
1906: William Joseph Seymour made popular the Pentecostal religion
1907: Plastic is invented by Leo Baekeland of Belgian.
1908: Henry Ford's Model T car went on sale for $850.
William Taft elected President.
1909: North Pole reached by Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson.
1910: 1st Newsreel, by Pathe Freres of Paris,
Among those credited with making electric washing machines around 1910 was Alva J. Fisher.
French scientist named Georges Claude applied an electrical charge to a tube filled with neon gas and created the Neon light.
1911: Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band changed American's music. First airplane pilot's license issued to Glenn H. Curtiss.
Calbraith Rodgers is the first pilot to wing solo across North America - in 49 days.
"Bright Path" was his tribal name. Most knew him as Jim Thorpe, whose 4 field goals and 70-yard touchdown run for Carlisle Indian School left top-ranked Harvard crimson-faced.
The "Georgia Peach", Ty Cobb, hit .320 for the Detroit Tigers.
1912: Vitamins were offered by scientists Frederick Hopkins and Casimir Funk. Woodrow Wilson elected President.
1913: Woodrow Wilson becomes 28th President.
Swedish immigrant Gideon Sundback at Universal Fastener Co in Pennsylvania invents the zipper.
BF Goodrich first used the word "zipper" to describe the invention when referring to the fasteners on a pair of its galoshes.
1914: Margaret Sanger (a nurse and the 6th of 11 children) published The Woman Rebel, an exhortation for women to challenge the pro-conception climate of the day.
Mary Phelps Jacob, a New York City debutante patented the brassier.
Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, are popularized in a lumber company's pamphlet.
1915: "Great White Hope" Jess Willard takes the heavyweight title by a knockout.
1916: Tom Mooney arrested for San Francisco bombing.
President Wilson was re-elected.
Margaret Sanger opened first birth control clinic.
The Saturday Evening Post runs Norman Rockwell's first cover illustration. Montana sends Jeannette Rankin to Congress; most states still deny women the vote.
1920: Warren G. Harding elected President.

2007-12-29 12:28:27 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 1 0

1920 Famous People

2016-11-07 07:03:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

1920 People

2016-12-17 18:08:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Lloyd George
Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
Vladimir Lenin (ne Ulyanov)
Leon Trotsky
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Czar Nicholas II
Sarah Bernhardt
Guillaume Apollinaire
Nijinsky
sigh, I'm tired typing

2007-12-29 12:19:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

teddy roosevelt

2007-12-29 12:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by mf east 6 · 0 0

Mother Teresa

2007-12-29 12:03:14 · answer #6 · answered by Grammy(back on) 7 · 0 2

This might help you:
http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa110900a.htm

2007-12-29 12:27:36 · answer #7 · answered by Snow Globe 7 · 0 0

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