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1896 Feb |
Teddy Roosevelt, Police Commissioner of NYC, closed all the police lodging houses on the advice of Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914), Danish-born author and photographer. Links: USA, NYC, RooseveltT 
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1897 |
Teddy Roosevelt, the police commissioner of NYC, was appointed assistant secretary of war under Pres. William McKinley, after Col. Frederick Grant, son of Ulysses S. Grant, turned down the position. In 2012 Richard Zacks authored “Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York.” Links: USA, NYC, Books, RooseveltT
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1902 May 12 |
Over 125,000 miners in northeastern Pennsylvania called a strike and kept the mines closed all summer. An additional 18,000 bituminous workers struck in sympathy. Owners refused arbitration and Pres. Roosevelt intervened. [see Oct 3] Links: USA, Labor, Pennsylvania, RooseveltT
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1902 Sep 3 |
US Secret Service agent William Craig was killed when a speeding trolley car rammed into the open-air horse carriage carrying Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Mass. Links: USA, Massachusetts, RooseveltT
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1902 Oct 3 |
President Theodore Roosevelt met with miners and coal field operators in an attempt to settle the anthracite coal strike, then in its fifth month. The country relied on coal to power commerce and industry and anthracite or "hard coal" was essential for domestic heating. Pennsylvania miners had left the anthracite fields demanding wage increases, union recognition, and an eight-hour workday. As winter approached, public anxiety about fuel shortages and the rising cost of all coal pushed Roosevelt to take unprecedented action. The meeting failed to resolve differences. A presidential commission awarded the workers a 10% wage increase and a shorter work week. [see May 12] J.P. Morgan came up with a compromise proposal that provided for arbitration and the miners returned to work on Oct 23. Links: USA, Labor, Pennsylvania, DC, RooseveltT
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1903 May 14 |
The Dewey Memorial in Union Square, San Francisco, was dedicated by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. Robert Aitken sculpted the 12-foot statue of Victory that stood atop an 83-foot column. Alma de Bretteville, later Alma Spreckels, had posed as the model. Sugar magnate Adolph Spreckels was so taken with the model that he married her. Links: USA, SF, RooseveltT
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1903 May 15 |
President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir began a 3-day camping trip in Yosemite National Park. Links: USA, California, RooseveltT
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1903 Jul 4 |
The first cable across the Pacific Ocean, spliced between San Fancisco Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila, allowed Pres. Teddy Roosevelt to send the first around the world message. It took 9 minutes to circle the globe. Roosevelt had placed the atoll of Midway Island under Navy supervision. The Commercial Pacific Cable Co. (later AT&T) set the cable across the Pacific via Midway Island. Links: Philippines, SF, Guam, Telecom, Hawaii, RooseveltT, Midway Islands
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1905 Jul 29 |
US Secretary of War William Howard Taft, under the approval of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, and PM of Japan Katsura Taro signed the Taft-Katsura Agreement, which reinforced American and Japanese influence and spelled doom for Korean sovereignty. Japan agreed not to interfere in the ongoing US rape of the Philippines in return for the US agreement not to interfere with Japan’s forthcoming rape of Korea. Links: USA, Japan, Korea, Philippines, RooseveltT
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1905 |
In SF a reform movement began led by former mayor James Phelan and Fremont Older, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt sent special prosecutor Francis Heney to investigate graft in SF. Links: USA, SF, Corruption, RooseveltT
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1905 |
East Coasters including Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Frederic Remington set up the American Bison Society. In 1907 they sent 15 animals by rail to the new Wichita Bison Refuge in Oklahoma. The society met for the last time in 1935. The society was revitalized in 2005 to secure the ecological future of the animal. In 2009 Steven Rinella authored “American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon.” Links: USA, Animal, RooseveltT
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1906 Mar 11 |
The Simplified Spelling Board was announced with Andrew Carnegie funding the organization, to be headquartered in New York City. In August Pres. Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order mandating simplified spelling in all government administrative documents. Links: USA, NYC, Language, RooseveltT
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1906 Mar 17 |
President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with "the muck-rake in his hand" in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington, DC, as he criticized what he saw as the excesses of investigative journalism. Links: USA, RooseveltT
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1906 Apr 14 |
Pres. Roosevelt made a speech about “Man With the Muck Rake” during a ceremony at the laying of the corner stone for the House of Representatives.” Links: USA, DC, RooseveltT
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1906 May 26 |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt approved the US Congress chartered the Archaeological Institute of America. Links: USA, RooseveltT, Archeology
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1906 Jun 8 |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt signed the American Antiquities Act, first proposed in 1882. It was used to set aside American resources by executive order. Roosevelt had urged the passage of the Antiquities Act to allow the president to designate areas of scientific, historic or archeological significance as national monuments without the approval of Congress. Links: USA, RooseveltT, Archeology
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1906 Jun 29 |
The US Congress enacted the Hepburn Act, which prohibited railroads from offering discounted rates to large shippers and authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum freight charges for railroads. Pres. Roosevelt had personally appealed for its passage. Links: USA, RooseveltT
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1906 Jul |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to editor William Allen White in which he called Upton Sinclair “hysterical, unbalanced and untruthful” in reference to Sinclair’s criticism of the Chicago meat packing plants. Links: USA, Chicago, Food, RooseveltT
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1906 Sep 24 |
Devils Tower, the first US National Monument, was designated by President Theodore Roosevelt. Devils Tower is a volcanic rock formation, rising 867 feet over a base of gray igneous rock at 1,700 feet, located in the Black Hills of Wyoming. Links: USA, Wyoming, RooseveltT
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1906 Nov 9 |
President Theodore Roosevelt left Washington D.C. for a 17 day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official visit outside of the US. His trip popularized the Panama hat, a product actually made in Ecuador and shipped since the 1840s to prospective gold diggers in Panama. The toquilla straw hats had been made in Ecuador as long ago as the 17th century. Links: Panama, Ecuador, USA, Puerto Rico, Fashion, RooseveltT
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1906 Dec 12 |
The US Senate confirmed Oscar Straus to be President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce and Labor; Straus became the first Jewish member of a presidential cabinet. Links: USA, Jews, RooseveltT
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1906 |
Upton Sinclair wrote a letter to Pres. Roosevelt urging him to send an inspector into the Chicago packing houses. Links: USA, Chicago, Food, RooseveltT
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1906 |
US colleges set up the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the behest of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. Links: USA, RooseveltT
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1908 Jan 9 |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt declared Muir Woods in Marin County, Ca., a national monument. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Trees, RooseveltT
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1908 May 6 |
The Great White Fleet, sent by Pres. Roosevelt on an around-the-world voyage, arrived in SF. The fleet left San Francisco on July 7. Links: USA, SF, SF Bay Area, RooseveltT
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1908 |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt established the Lower Klamath Refuge in northern California and southern Oregon as the nation’s first preserve set aside for waterfowl. Links: USA, California, Oregon, RooseveltT, Birds
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1909 Feb 3 |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt signed Executive Order 1019 which established a bird sanctuary of some of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Links: USA, Environment, Hawaii, RooseveltT, Birds
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1909 Feb 27 |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt established the Farallon Islands, 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, as a wildlife refuge. Links: USA, California, Environment, RooseveltT
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1909 |
Under Pres. Theodore Roosevelt two Calaveras groves of Redwood trees in California were purchased by the federal government to prevent them being logged. The area was declared a state park in 1931. Links: USA, California, Trees, RooseveltT
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1910 Mar 28 |
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt gave his “Law and Order in Egypt” speech at Cairo Univ. Sheikh Ali Yusuf, Muslim cleric and popular columnist, had written an open letter in praise of Roosevelt’s visit, but the president’s imperious tone soon disappointed Egyptian hopes. Links: USA, RooseveltT
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1910 Aug 20 1910 Aug 21 |
The Great Idaho Fire killed 86 people and destroyed some 3 million acres of timber in Idaho, Montana and Washington. In 2009 Timothy Egan authored “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Save America.” Links: USA, Idaho, Washington, Fire, Montana, RooseveltT
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1910 Aug 31 |
Theodore Roosevelt laid out his progressive philosophy as he delivered the "New Nationalism" speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, effecting a split in the Republican Party. The speech was interpreted as an assault upon the conservatism of the Taft administration. In the speech, Roosevelt proclaimed that the New Nationalism "maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it." He also warned that America’s industrial economy had been taken over by a handful of corporate giants garnering wealth for a small number of people. Links: USA, Kansas, RooseveltT
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1910 Oct 11 |
During a visit to St. Louis, Theodore Roosevelt flew with pilot Arch Hoxsey, becoming the first US president to fly. Links: USA, Aviation, Missouri, RooseveltT
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1912 Oct 14 |
Theodore Roosevelt, former president and the Bull Moose Party candidate, was shot at close range by anarchist William Schrenk while greeting the public in front of the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee while campaigning for the presidency. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and still managed to give a 90 minute address in Milwaukee after requesting his audience to be quiet because “there is a bullet in my body.” Schrenk was captured and uttered the now famous words "any man looking for a third term ought to be shot." Links: USA, Wisconsin, Anarchist, RooseveltT
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1912 Nov 5 |
Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected the 28th president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft. Wilson had served as the president of Princeton Univ. California’s Gov. Hiram Johnson was the running mate for former Pres. Theodore Roosevelt on a Progressive Party platform that included a universal system of social insurance to protect all Americans from the “hazards of sickness.” In 2004 James Chace authored “1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs – The election that Changed the Country. Links: USA, California, TaftW, WilsonW, RooseveltT
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1914 Feb |
In Brazil a 22-man party, that included former Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, started down the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt) in the Amazon Basin for a 2-month adventure. In 2005 Candice Millard authored “The River of Doubt” Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey.” Links: RooseveltT
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1933 |
Economists from the Univ. of Chicago sent Pres. Roosevelt a memo outlining a plan to split the two main functions of banks: taking deposits and making loans. This came to be known as the Chicago Plan. Roosevelt opted instead for deposit insurance. Links: USA, Chicago, RooseveltT, Banking
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1934 Mar 24 |
San Francisco’s 103-foot Mount Davidson Cross was illuminated by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt via an electrical impulse telegraphed to turn on floodlights at the base. It was created by architect George Kelham. This was the 5th crsoss created at this site. The first was erected in 1923 as a memorial to the veterans of WW I. Links: USA, SF, RooseveltT
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1980 Feb 20 |
Alice Longworth Roosevelt (b.1884), youngest daughter of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, died. Links: USA, RooseveltT
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2013 |
Doris Kearns Goodwin authored “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism.” Links: USA, Books, RooseveltT
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2019 May 24 |
Biographer Edmond Morris (78) died in Danbury, Conn. His books included "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (1979), "Theodore Rex" (2001), "Colonel Roosevelt" (2010) and "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" (1999). Links: USA, Writer, Connecticut, Biography, ReaganR, RooseveltT
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2020 Jun 22 |
It was reported that the bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down. Links: USA, NYC, RooseveltT
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