1902-The Airplane
The first successful
airplane was invented and flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December
17 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. These two did not invent the airplane.
1906-FRISCO EARTHQUAKE
The San Francisco
earthquake measured 8.3 on the Richter scale killing 700 people on April
18.
1907- The Automobile
Henry Ford invented a complex, but low-priced, car known as "The
Model-T".
1912- The Titanic
The Titanic, also known
as "The Ship of Dreams", set sail on April 12 and hit an iceberg in the
middle of the Atlantic at around midnight on April 14. 2200 people were
on the ship to start, and a mere 700 survived the well known sinking of
The Titanic.
1915-World War
I
World
War 1 started after Austrian leader Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated
in Sarajevo in 1914. The Germans then unleashed chemical warfare on Allied
troops. Throughout most of the war, Allied troops could not compete with
the Central Powers. Finally, in 1917 U.S. troops gave the Allied Forces
the manpower to defeat the Central Powers.