Timeline: 1900-1909

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Songs

	Mighty Lak' a Rose by Ethelbert Nevin (1901)
	Mr. Dooley by Jean Schwartz (1902)
	In the Good Old Summertime by George Evans (1902)
	The Burning of Rome by E.T. Paull (1903)
	What You Goin' Do When the Rent Comes 'Round by Harry Von Tilzer (1905)
	In My Merry Oldsmobile by Gus Edwards (1905)
	Shade of the Old Apple Tree by Egbert Van Alstyne (1905)
	A New Rag, Dill Pickles by Chas. L. Johnson (1907)
	My Pony Boy by Charley O'Donnell (1909)

McKinley elected 25th President (1900)

McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated President (1901)

Theodore Roosevelt elected 26th President (1904)

Industrial Workers of the World formed (1905)

William H. Taft elected 27th President (1908)

Boxer Rebellion in China (1900)

Panama Canal begun (1907)

Trans-siberian Railway (1903)

Russo-Japaneese War (1905)

U.S. Steel (1901)

Ford Motor Company (1903)

American Automobile Association (1902)

Pepsi Cola Company (1902)

General Motors Company (1908)

J. L. Kraft Bros & Co. (1909)

Wright brothers' airplane flies at Kitty Hawk, N.C. (1903)

Theory of Relativity developed by Einstein (1905)

Ford introduces Model T (1908)

Instant Coffee (1901)

Teddy Bear (1902)

First radio broadcast (1906)

Geiger counter (1908)

Robert Peary reaches North Pole (1909)

"Tin Pan Alley" named by songwriter Harry Von Tilzer

Cake Walk is a popular dance (1900)

First Nobel Prize awarded (1901)

San Francisco earthquake (1906)

Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avingnon (1907)

Prairie-style Robie House built by Frank Lloyd Wright (1909)

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (1901)

The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1905)

Chicago Cubs win the World Series (1908)