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Benjamin Harrison Spear

Benjamin Harrison Spear

Male 1889 - 1935  (45 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1889 
  • 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
2 1889-1893 
  • 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
3 1890 
  • 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
  • 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
4 1891 
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
5 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
6 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
7 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
8 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.
9 1897 
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
  • 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
10 1897-1901 
  • 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
11 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
12 1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
13 1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
14 1901-1909 
  • 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
15 1903 
  • 1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
  • 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
16 1904 
  • 1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
17 1905 
  • 1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
18 1906 
  • 1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
19 1909 
  • 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
20 1909-1913 
  • 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
21 1911 
  • 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
22 1912 
  • 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
23 1913 
  • 1913: Billboard magazine publishes a list of the most popular vaudeville songs.
  • 1913: Willa Cather writes O Pioneers!
  • 1913: T. S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
24 1913-1921 
  • 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
25 1914-1918 
  • 1914-1918: World War I
26 1914 
  • 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
27 1915 
  • 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
28 1918 
  • 1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
29 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
30 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
31 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
32 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
33 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
34 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
35 1924 
  • 1924: The Juilliard School opens in New York. Maurice Ravel's Bolero opens in Paris. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.
36 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
37 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
38 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
39 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
40 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
41 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
42 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever

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