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August 1997
The Teamsters strike against United Parcel Service
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January -- February 1991
The Persian Gulf War
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November 1989
The Berlin Wall falls
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July 3, 1988
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July 3, 1988
US crusier shoots down Iranian airliner.
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November 18, 1987
Congressional report on the Iran Contra Affair.
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May 17, 1987
U.S. frigate Stark hit by Iraqi missle in Persan Gulf.
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February 26, 1987
Tower Commission Report on Iran-Contra Scandal
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November 6, 1986
Iran-contra scandal
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April 15, 1986
U.S. air strikes against Lybia.
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January 28, 1986
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
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October 7, 1985
Achille Lauro hijacked.
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February 26, 1984
U.S. troops leave Lebanon.
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October 23, 1983
Terrorist attack kills 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut.
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July 6, 1982
United States commits to peacekeeping in Lebanon.
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June 6, 1982
Israel invades Lebanon
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October 6, 1981
Assassination of Egypy President Anwar Sadat
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August 1981
Air traffic controllers strike
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January 20, 1981
Iran frees hostages.
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1981
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
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April 29, 1980
Mission to free Iran hostages fails.
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January 23, 1980
The Carter Doctrine
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November 4, 1979
Iran Hostage Crisis
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September 17, 1978
Camp David Accords
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April 1975
The fall of Saigon
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August 9, 1974
Richard Nixon resigns
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October 6-November 11, 1973
Yom Kippur War
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May 4, 1970
Kent State Shootings
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April 17, 1970
Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth
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April 1970
State Troopers & the National Guard occupy OSU during Vietnam protests.
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July 20, 1969
Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon
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June 1968
Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
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April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
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February 1968
Eastland Mall opens in Columbus
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June 5-10, 1967
Third Arab-Israeli War
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October 1966
The Black Panther Party is established
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March 1965
The first American ground troops are deployed to South Vietnam
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April 14, 1964
First woman to fly solo around the world
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January 1, 1964
Civil Rights Act passed
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November 22, 1963
John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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October 22, 1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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February 20, 1962
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth
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1962
Lazarus opens its first branch store
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April 17, 1961
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
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May 1, 1960
U-2 Spy Plane shot down
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1960
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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October 4, 1957
Sputnik Launched by the USSR
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1957
Eisenhower Doctrine
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January 1, 1957
Federal Troops sent to Little Rock, Arkansas
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July-October, 1956
The Suez Crisis
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1955
The Montgomery bus boycott
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1955
The AFL and CIO merge
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January 1, 1955
Salk polio vaccine announced
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January 1, 1955
Middle East Treaty Organization (later, The Central Treaty Organization, CENTO)
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1954
The Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education
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January 1, 1954
The Construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway
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February 28, 1953
Watson and Crick find the secret of life.
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1951
Diner's Club issues the first credit card
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June 25, 1950
Korean War begins
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Autumn 1949
The CIO expells nine unions for refusing to purge Communists
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June 24, 1948
The Berlin blockade
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October 14, 1947
The Sound Barrier is Broken.
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June 23, 1947
Taft-Hartley Act is passed
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June 5, 1947
Secretary of State George Marshall introduces the Marshall Plan
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March 21, 1947
Federal Employee Loyalty Program initiated
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March 12, 1947.
Truman Doctrine
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1947
Levittown
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October 1946
Lustron Corporation begins construction mass-produced housing.
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January-April, 1946.
Iran Crisis
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August 6, 1945
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan
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July 16, 1945
The First Atomic Explosion
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June 26, 1945
The United Nations is established
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February 1945
Yalta Conference
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June 6, 1944
Normandy Invasion - D-Day
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January 1, 1944
Servicemens Readjustment Act (GI Bill) is passed
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November 28 - December 1, 1943.
Tehran Conference
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November 22 - 26, 1943.
Cairo Conference
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May 29 - June 3, 1943
Algiers Conference
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January 12, 1943 to January 23, 1943.
Casablanca Conference
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December 7, 1941
The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
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June 1941
President Franklin Roosevelt creates the Fair Employment Practices Commission
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January 21, 1940
Jack Nicklaus, born January 21, 1940, Columbus, Ohio
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June 12, 1939
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum opens
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June 25, 1938
The Fair Labor Standards Act is passed
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1938
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) forms
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June 22, 1937
Joe Louis becomes Heavyweight Championship of the World
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December 30, 1936
Auto workers begin a massive sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan
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1936
WPA begins conducting interviews with former slaves
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July 5, 1935
The National Labor Relations Act is passed
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May 24, 1935
First nighttime baseball game is played at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, OH
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January 1, 1935
(1913-1980) James Cleveland (Jessie) Owens
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May 23, 1934
The "Battle of Toledo"
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July 6, 1933
First Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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June 16, 1933
The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in Roosevelt's first New Deal
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January 1, 1933
Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany
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January 1, 1933
The End of Prohibition
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November 1932
Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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March 7, 1932
Ford Hunger March
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1931
Rube Foster's Negro League collapses
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January 1, 1930
The Dust Bowl
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October 29, 1929
Black Tuesday
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October, 1929
1929-1939 The Great Depression
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August 1929
Babe Ruth hits 500th homerun
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June 3, 1929
White Castle opens it's first restaurant in Columbus, OH.
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January 1, 1928
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
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October 1927
The Jazz Singer is released
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September 30, 1927
Babe Ruth hits 60 homeruns
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August 23, 1927
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed
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May 1927
Lindbergh's flight
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1927
The Grandview Avenue Bank Block
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1925
Alain Locke coins the term "New Negro."
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1925
Scopes "monkey" trial
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1924
National Origins Act
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April 18, 1923
Yankee Stadium opens
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October 21, 1922
Ohio Stadium on the campus of The Ohio State University
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1922
The Negro Leagues
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1922
Major League Baseball declared exempt from anti-trust laws
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September, 1921
Babe Ruth breaks the home run record for the third time.
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1921
Emergency Immigration Act
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August 1920
Woman suffrage
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1920
Babe Ruth traded to the Yankees, breaks home run record
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January 1, 1920
The Birth of the National Football League, Canton, Ohio
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January 1920
Prohibition began
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October 1919-September 1920
Black Sox Scandal
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September 1919
Steel strike
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July 1919
Chicago race riots
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June 28, 1919
Treaty of Versailles
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January 16, 1919
The Eighteenth Amendment is ratified
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1919
Ruth sets Major League Baseball home run record
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November 11, 1918
World War I ended
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January 8, 1918
Woodrow Wilson delivers his "Fourteen Points" speech
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1918-1919
The Spanish flu
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January 1, 1918
Woodrow Wilson announces his Fourteen Points
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May 15, 1917
The Chicago Defender launches the "Great Northern Drive"
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March 1917
Russian Revolution
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1916
Marcus Garvey & the UNIA
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May 7, 1915
Sinking of the Lusitania
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August 1, 1914
The Start of World War I
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June 1914
Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated
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April 20, 1914
Ludlow Massacre
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1914
The Clayton Anti-trust Act is passed
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1914
Henry Ford introduces the Five-Dollar Day
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1914-1916
The Federal League is established
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January 1, 1914
The Panama Canal opens
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December 1913
Glass-Owen Federal Reserve Act
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April 9, 1913
Ebbets Field is opens in Brooklyn, NY
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April 6, 1917
U.S. enters into WWI
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February 1913
Income tax is instituted
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1913
Henry Ford creates the first assembly line
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1913--1915
Economic recession
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April 20, 1912
Fenway Baseball Park opens in Boston, MA
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1912
Baseball players unionize
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March 25, 1911
Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, New York City
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1911
Frederick Winslow Taylor publishes The Principles of Scientific Management
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July 1, 1910
Cominskey Field opens
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1910
Rising immigration rates
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1910
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded
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November 1909
Uprising of the Twenty Thousand
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November 1, 1908
William Howard Taft elected President
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January 16, 1906
Algeciras Conference addresses German-French contest over Morocco.
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1906
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
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1906
The YWCA incorporates nationally in the United States
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June 1905
The Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) organizes
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December, 1903
The Wright Brothers First Flight
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October 1, 1903
First World Series played
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1903
The Women's Trade Union League is formed
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January 1, 1900
Firestone Tire Company Established
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