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xxiii 1900 The World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle) is held in Paris. 1901 President William McKinley is assassinated Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency. 1903 The Wright brothers make a successful airplane flight. 1906 Major earthquake destroys much of San Francisco, California. 1908 Henry Ford mass produces the Model T automobile. 1909 William Howard Taft becomes twenty-seventh president of the United States. 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 workers, mainly women and girls. 1912 Twenty thousand attend New York Suffragette Rally. 1913 Woodrow Wilson becomes twenty-eighth president of the United States. 1914 World War I begins. 1917 The United States enters World War I by declaring war on Ger- many Converse All-Stars shoes are introduced. 1918 World War I ends. 1919 Prohibition begins Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote. 1921 Warren G. Harding becomes twenty-ninth president of the United States. 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. 1923 Calvin Coolidge becomes thirtieth president of the United States. 1925 The Charleston becomes a dance craze Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris begins the official Art Deco movement. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS