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Centenarian Claude William Newman was born in 1882 and in that year Chester A. Arthur was the 21st president of the United States. Charles J. Guiteau is found guilty of the assassination of President James A. Garfield, the 20th president. Thomas Edison starts the U.S.'s first commercial electrical power plant, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan.
It's amazing how different the world was when he was born to when he died.
Some of the historical events he may have witnessed.
1888 - The "Great Blizzard of 1888" begins along the East Coast of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1895 - The first American automobile race.
- The first professional American football game is played.
1900 -The Wright brothers begin their first manned glider experimental flights.
1910 - Joyce Hall founded Hallmark Cards.
1914 - World War I (1914-1918)
1919 - The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution begins Prohibition.
1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.
1930 - The Great Depression in the United States.
1931 - The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States
national anthem.
1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president.
1933 - 21st Amendment ends prohibition.
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge completed.
1939 - World War II (1939-1945)
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor.
1945 - End of World War II
1950 - Korean War begins when North Korea forces invade South Korea.
The war lasted until an armistice agreement was signed in 1953.
1955 - Start of Vietnam War.
1963 - "I have a Dream" Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech
during the civil rights march in Washington, DC.
- Assassination of President Kennedy.
1969 - Moon Landing, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon.
1974 - Nixon Resignation.
1975 - End of the Vietnam War.
1983 - The first American woman in space, Sally Ride on the Challenger