e Comanche Nation, died.
17/2/1911, The city of Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, was incorporated.
25/1/1911. US troops were sent to Rio Grande in the Mexican Civil War.
1/10/1910, Bonnie Parker, US outlaw of the Bonnie and Clyde duo, was born in Rowena, Texas.
30/9/1910, US terrorist J.B. McNamara planted a time bomb in a passage beneath the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times newspaper, with 16 sticks of dynamite set to explode after working hours. Two other bombs were placed outside the homes of the Times owner and the secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. The bomb outside the Times building detonated shortly after 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, triggering an explosion of natural gas lines and setting a fire that killed 20 newspaper employees.
19/6/1910. Fathers Day was instituted in the USA.
18/6/1910, The city of Glendale, Arizona, was incorporated.
5/6/1910, Death of American short-story writer Henry O.
21/4/1910. Mark Twain, American author, died in Reading, Connecticut, aged 74.
16/12/1909, US marines forced the resignation of President Jose Zelaya of Nicaragua.
22/8/1909, 5 US workers died in steel industry riots.
24/3/1909, Clyde Barrow, one of the Bonnie and Clyde outlaws, was born in Toledo, Texas.
5/1/1909. The Colombian Government formally recognised Panamanian independence.
14/11/1908, Joseph McCarthy, US politician and lawyer noted for his purge against Communists, was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
13/11/1908, C Vann Woodward, US historian, was born (died 1992).
14/10/1908, George Harold Brown, US engineer, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
12/8/1908, The Model T Ford began rolling off the production line. Priced at US$ 825, the cost was kept low by mass production using standardised parts. Instead of one man assembling an entire car, each worker preformed just one task as the car moved along a conveyor belt. By this production line method, the time to assemble a car was cut from 14 hours to 2. To motivate his workforce, Henry Ford raised wages from US$ 2.34 for a 9 hour day to US$ 5 for an 8 hour day. Productivity improvements meant Ford could reduce the car’s price to US$ 300. Over 15 million Model Ts were built and by the time production ceased in 1927 half the cars in the US were Fords.
26/7/1908. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, was established in Washington DC. Before this date the US Department of Justice often called on Secret Service ‘operatives’ to help in its investigations. These operatives were well trained and dedicated but expensive. They reported not to the Attorney General but to the chief of the Secret Service. Bonaparte created a special agents force, to report not to the chief of the Secret Service but to the Chief Examiner, Stanley Finch, later head of the FBI. This force of 34 agents later became a permanent part of the Department of Justice.
2/7/1908, Thurgood Marshall, US lawyer, was born (died 1993)
10/5/1908. Mothers Day was first celebrated in the USA.
21/3/1908, Abraham Maslow, US psychologist, was born (died 1970).
24/2/1908. Japan and the USA agreed to limit Japanese migration to the US. President Roosevelt was concerned at working-class migration into the US following an influx of Chinese coolies. Chinese migration began to fall from its peak of 107,000 a year; Japanese migration only began more recently and in 1900 there were only 25,000 Japanese in the whole of the USA.
16/12/1907, The US sent a fleet of 16 battleships on a round-the-world tour, to demonstrate the military might of the USA.
6/12/1907, The USA suffered its worst mine disaster. 361 died at Monongah, West Virginia.
16/11/1907. Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th State of the USA.
17/4/1907, A record all time high of 11,747 immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, New York, this day.
26/2/1907. President Roosevelt put the US army in charge of building the Panama Canal.
26/11/1906, US President Theodore Roosevelt returned to the USA from Central America, becoming the first American President to travel abroad whilst in office. On his 17-day trip aboard the US battleship Louisiana he vi