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Hoover was born on August 10 in West Branch, Iowa. |
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Large-scale manufacture of barbed wire began. |
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Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. |
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Hoover's father, Jesse, a blacksmith and farm implement store owner died. |
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Three transcontinental railroads completed. The first was finished in 1869. |
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Hoover's mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover, died. |
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Hoover lived in Oregon. Attended Friends Pacific Academy in Newburg. Worked as office boy in Uncle's real estate office in Salem. Attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing and math. Did not attend high school. |
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Statue of Liberty dedicated. |
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Eiffel Tower was built in Paris. |
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Hoover entered Stanford University. Graduated in 1895 with a degree in geology. |
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Worked in California gold mine, 10 hours a day, 20 cents per hour. Then took a job as typist in engineering office of Louis Janin, when no engineering positions were open. |
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Dr. John Kellogg designed breakfast flakes. |
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Wireless telegraph invented. |
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On Janin's recommendation, Hoover was hired by British mining firm of Bewick, Moreing & Co., and sent to gold fields of Australia. |
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Horace Short invented the paper clip. |
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Married Lou Henry, fellow geology student at Stanford. Went to China for Bewick, Moreing and Co. to act as consultant to Chinese government in developing mines. In China during the Boxer Rebellion. |
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Chinese Boxer Rebellion. |
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Hoover became a partner in Bewick, Moreing and began traveling all over the world. |
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Nobel prizes awarded for the first time. |
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Herbert Hoover, Jr., born in London. |
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Wilbur and Orville Wright got their airplane Flyer I, off the ground at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
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Allan Hoover, born in London. |
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First radio broadcast. |
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Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile, nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie". The car cost $850. |
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Hoover retired from Bewick, Moreing and began a firm consulting engineers. He becomes known as a "Dr. of Sick Mines". |
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Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover completed the translation into English of De Re Metallica, a 16th Century Latin text on mining, for which they received a gold medal from the Mining & Metallurgical Society of America in 1914. |
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A new candy called the "Life Saver" hit the market. A roll cost a nickel. |
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Hoover helped Americans stranded in Europe, because of WWI, return home. Became Chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. |
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World War I began in Europe. |
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Hoover asked by President Wilson to be United States Food Administrator for U.S. during war. |
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Jeanette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, was the first woman elected to Congress. |
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Hoover directed the American Relief Administration which fed 350 million people in 21 countries in the aftermath of the war. |
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19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. Gave women the right to vote. |
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Served as Secretary of Commerce in the Cabinets of President Harding and Coolidge. |
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The most popular sandwich for people under 12 was peanut butter and jelly. |
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Established American Child Health Association. |
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Chairman, Street and Highway Safety Commission. |
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A new dance craze swept the nation called the Charleston. |
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Radio comes into popular use in the United States. |
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Spoke and was pictured on first transmission of television signals from New York to Washington. |
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Charles Lindbergh flew nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane called "The Spirit of St. Louis". |
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Hoover elected President of the United States. |
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Served as 31st President of the United States. Made good will tour of Latin America after the election. |
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Stock market crashed. |
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Construction began on Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. |
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President Hoover signed an act that made "The Star Spangled Banner" our national anthem. |
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1932 |
Defeated for reelection by Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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Drought created "dust-bowl" in the Midwest and Southwest. |
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Hoover served as chairman of Boys' Club of America and helped establish 500 new Boys' Clubs. |
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Hoover worked as Chairman of committees to raise funds for Polish, Finnish, and Belgian relief. |
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World War II began with the Russian-German invasion of Poland. |
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Bugs Bunny made his first appearance. |
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U.S. attacked at Pearl Harbor; entered WWII |
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Lou Henry Hoover died. |
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At President Truman's request Hoover conducted postwar World Famine surveys. |
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Hoover was chairman of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (known as 1st Hoover Commission) for President Truman. |
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Television began coming into wide use in the U.S. |
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Headed Second Hoover Commission to study executive branch for President Eisenhower. |
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Successful vaccine against polio developed. |
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Russia launched the first earth orbiting satellite, Sputnik I. |
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Hoover served as the United States representative to the World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium - his last official act. |
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Hoover Presidential Library and Museum dedicated in West Branch - one of Hoover's last public appearances. |
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U.S. astronaut John Glenn rocketed into orbit. |
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Herbert Hoover died in New York City at the age of 90. Buried in West Branch, Iowa. |
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