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[Addison]

1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill with bubonic plague, originating the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904, the first epidemic of the disease in the continental United States.

[Malphe]

1901 - US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

[Cretanja]

William McKinley has to be the least known American President.

1902, May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.

[Malphe]

1903 - In Delhi, a great durbar, or formal reception, marks the coronation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India; the British release some 16,000 prisoners in honor of the occasion.

[Cretanja]

1904, May 4 : United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal~

[Malphe]

1905 - the Russo Japanese war ends.

[Cretanja]

1906, August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. This leads to the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909.

[Malphe]

1907 - US President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

[Cretanja]

1908, October 6 – The Bosnian Crisis begins, after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire.

[Malphe]

1909 - im too tired to find a historical event