Timeline: 1910-1920
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Politics & Government |
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Inventions, Discoveries & Patents |
Exploration |
Humanities |
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Sports
Songs
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Alexander's Ragtime Band by Irving Berlin (1911)
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Waiting for the Robert E. Lee by Lewis F. Muir (1912)
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Memphis Blues by W.C. Handy (1913)
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Peg o' My Heart by Fred Fisher (1913)
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He'd Have to Get Under - Get Out and Get Under to Fix Up His Automobile by Maurice Abrahams (1913)
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Keep the Home Fires Burning by Ivor Novello (1914)
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Hush-a-bye, Ma Baby; Missouri Waltz by John Valentine Eppel (1915)
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I Don't Know Where I'm Going, But I'm On My Way by George Fairman (1917)
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K-k-k Katy by Geoffrey O'Hara (1918)
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Dreams, Just Dreams by Richard Howard (1919)
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Mr. Harding We're All For You by John L. McManus (1920)
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Politics & Government
- Woodrow Wilson inaugurated US President (1913)
- U.S. declares war on Germany (1917)
- Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil Co. (1911)
- Jeanette Rankin becomes first woman in U.S. Congress (1916)
- Prohibition begins with the 18th Amendment (1920)
- 19th Amendment allows women to vote (1920)
- Warren G. Harding elected 29th President (1920)
International Affairs
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Bolshevik revolution in Russia (1917)
Companies
- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (1910)
- Hallmark, Inc. (1910)
- Chevrolet Motor Company (1911)
- Universal Pictures Corporation (1912)
- Greyhound Lines, Inc. (1914)
- Alfred A. Knoph and Co. (1915)
- Radio Corporation of America (RCA) (1919)
Inventions, Trademarks & Patents
- Cellophane (1911)
- First feature-length motion picture shown in America, Queen Elizabeth with Sarah Bernhardt (1912)
- Brassiere (1914)
- Pyrex Glass (1915)
Exploration
- Norwegian Roald Amundsen Arrives at the South Pole (1911)
Humanities
- Boy Scouts founded (1910)
- Titanic sinks (1912)
- First transatlantic flight (1919)
- American Cancer Society founded (1913)
- American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) founded (1914)
- D. W. Griffith films Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Influenza epidemic kills 21.64 million people in Europe, America, and the Orient (1918)
- First radio station - KDKA in Pittsburgh (1920)
Publications
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)
- Dubliners by James Joyce (1914)
- Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot (1917)
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
Sports
- Wrigley Field completed in Chicago (1914)
- National Hockey League organized (1917)
- National Football League organized (1920)
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