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THE AMERICAN MILEHistorical Events1876 -1925InternationalNationalStateLocalBrazos CountyBryanCollege StationTexas A&M University1876(1) Alexander Graham Bell recieves patent for Telephone
(DS) (2) Sioux Indians defeat US troops at Little Big Horn. (JY)(1) Passage of the State Constitution of 1876, containing provisions for the support and regulation of the A&M College.
Oct 2 -Official opening of the college to students. (JC)1877(1) February – U.S. Post Office designates A&M stop “College Station.” (JC)1878(1) Women's Sufferage Amendment signed into
law (BH)Nov -Elias Mayes, an African American, is elected to the Texas Legislature. (JS)1879(1) Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated the incandescent electric light bulb on Dec 31. (DS) Edison’s
phonograph or speaking machine was on exhibition at Bryan. Pg. 354. (RO)18801880 Census reports Brazos Co population is 13,576. Nov -Dennis Ballard, an African American, is elected county
commissioner (JS)June 6 -Eleven Former cadets were present at the first on campus meeting meeting of former students. (JS) 1881(1) July 2 -President James Garfield is shot in a Washington
railroad station by an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post. (JS) (2) American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons (BH)Six men of Shiloh community form
the Czechoslovakian Agricultural & Goodwill Club (JC)1882(1) Labor Day established (BH)1883University of Texas opens (KE)The Shiloh Club was started (RO)Railroad Depot constructed and
Postmaster William C. Boyett purchases general store. (JC)First telephone connection between campus and Bryan. Railroad builds first depot at the college and begins making regular stops.
(JC)1884Fence cutting becomes a felony in Texas (Fence Cutting Wars) (KE)Brazos County Medical Society formed. Pg. 308 (RO) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1876-1925
1885Washington Monument completed (BH)City of Bryan purchased seven lots for the building of a school for the blacks. Pg. 116. (RO)1886Statue of Liberty was presented to American by
France (BH)First National Bank Bryan established with first night depository in nation. Pg. 438 (RO)1887 "Jim Crow" law passed in Flordia legislature requiring segregation of railway
passengers (BH)April 13 -William C. Boyett appointed postmaster of College Station (JC)1888Dedication of present State Capitol building (KE)Jan 25 -Establishment of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station as a division of the college, under provisions of the Hatch Act (JS)1889May -The Brazos Pilot is sold to William D. Cox, former owner of the Temple Times. Oct 24 -Richard
M. Smith, late of the Brazos Pilot, began publication of a new weekly, The Bryan Eagle, located on Main Street in downtown Bryan on the site of the future F.W. Woolworth store, now closed
(JS)18901890 Census reports Brazos Co population is 16,650 (JS)1890 Census reports Bryan's population is 2,979 (JS)Electricity brought to A&M campus (JC)1891Railroad Commission is established
by Gov. James Hogg (KE)1892The Pledge of Allegiance written by Francis Bellamy (BH)Jones Bridge over the Brazos River was opened to traffic. It replaced the Jones Ferry. Pg. 56. (RO)1893
Charles and Frank Duryea claim credit for first working gasoline powered automobile (verfiy conflicting info)? Verify (BH)Oct 1 -The first issue of the student newspaper "The Battalion"
was started as a monthly publication and it served as College Station newspaper (JS)1894Texas Aggie Band organized by Joseph Holick (JC)1895Wilhelm C. Roentgen discovered X-ray (DS)
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1896Landmark decision by U.S. Supreme Court of the United States established policy of "separate but equal" providing basis for racial segregation in the South (BH)1897U.S. annexes Hawaiian
Islands (BH)April 2 -The Eagle newspaper reports that A&M College President Lawrence Sullivan Ross favors coeducation (JS)1898(1) Spanish-American War (BH) (2) US gains Puerto Rico,
Guam, the Philippines and Cuba following the Spanish-American war. US annexes Hawaii. (JY) ????Teddy Roosevelt arrives in San Antonio to recruit and train "Rough Riders" for Spanish-American
War in Cuba (KE) ?????1899Allen Academy, a preparatory school for boys began in Bryan. Pg. 6 (RO)1900(1) PBS 09/08 1900 -Galveston, Texas was struck by the worst hurricane in American
history. 23 foot waves fronting winds up to 135 mph took 6,000 lives (BH) (2) 5/22 The Associated Press was incorporated in New York as a non-profit news cooperative (BH)1900 Census
reports Brazos Co population is 18,859 (JS)1900 Census reports Bryan's population is 3,589 (JS)1901Wilhelm C. Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize. It was in Physics for his discovery
of X-ray (DS) 1/10 In the town of Beaumont, TX, a 100 foot drilling derrick named Spindletop produced a roaring gusher of black crude oil marking the beginning of the Texas oil industry
(BH) The first automobile came to Bryan. It was a red Oldsmobile called “Locomobile” owned by M. Boonville. Pg. 421. verify spelling (RO)1902 THC 12/14 1902 -The first transpacific telegraph
was laid starting this day. The cable connected San Francisco and Honolulu with some 2,620 miles of telegraph wire (BH) 1903Antoine H. Becqerel, Pierre Curie, and Marie Curie received
the Nobel prize in Physics for their discovery and work on radioactivity (DS)Orvill and Wilber Wright fly the first heavier that air powered machine on Dec 17 (DS)Carnegie Public Library
founded on $10,000 grant (JS) and built in Bryan in 1903. Pg. 1 (RO) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1876-1925
190405/14 1904 -The Third Olympiad of the modern era, and the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States, opened in St. Louis, Missouri. 5/04 The Panama Canal begins construction.
(BH)A&M Board designates area for permanent athletic field. Named for Prof. of Agriculture Edwin Jackson Kyle, Class of 1899. Board confirmed the naming in 1956 (JC) Verify --See 19051905Athletic
Council Chairman Edwin Jackson Kyle, professor of horticulture, fences off a portion of land on southwest corner of campus, originally designated for agricultural experiments, for an
athletic field (JS) Verify --See 1904 190604/18, -A devastating earthquake begins to shake the city of San Francisco in the morning hours. The first of two vicious tremors shook San
Francisco at 5:13 a.m., and a second followed not long after. The quake was powerful enough to be recorded thousands of miles away in Cape Town, South Africa, and its effect on San Francisco
was cataclysmic. (BH)1907 01/23 -Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American to serve in the United States Senate. He resigns in March of 1929 to become President Herbert
Hoover's Vice President. (BH)1908(1) 05/18 -Congress passed legislation that made the maxim "In God We Trust" an obligatory element of certain coins. (BH) (2) 10/01 -The Ford Model T,
affectionately known as the "tin Lizzy," was introduced to the American public (BH) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1876-1925
1909The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is organized at New York. (BH)(1) Earliest known Aggie Bonfire (JC) (2) The legislature grants A&M permission
to conduct regular summer sessions with the stipulation that women be allowed to attend in the summer. (JS)19101910 Census reports Brazos Co population is 18,919. (JS)1910 Census reports
Bryan's population is 4,132. (JS)Trolley to Bryan – Interrurban “Toonerville Trolley,” two cars and special trailer; operated until 1927. (JC)1911 08/08 -Membership in the U.S. House
of Representatives was established at 435. Every 211,877 residents of the U.S. were represented by one member of Congress. (BH)Parker Astin Hardware Company opened with capital stock
of $60,000 by Jon K. Parker and John E. Astin. Pg. 4 38. (RO)191204/15 -At 2:20 a.m. the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland,Canada.
(BH) 1913(1) 08/27 -Today marks the passage of the first graduated income tax law…. With the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, the tax made its way into America's law and pocketbooks.
(BH) (2) The Seventeenth Amendment ratified April 8 provides for direct election of U.S. senators. (BH) (3) 10/10 -An American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is completed. (BH) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1876-1925
1914(1) 08/01 -Four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Germany and Russia declared war against each other, France mobilized, and the first German army units crossed into
Luxembourg in preparation for the German invasion of France as WW I progressed. (BH) (2) 08/18 -President Woodrow Wilson issues his "Proclamation of Neutrality," aimed at keeping the
United States out of World War I. (BH)1915 05/07 -The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. (BH)Electric trolley
cars replace horse-drawn cars (JC)191611/07 -Montana suffragist Jeannette Rankin is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the first woman in the history of the nation
to win a seat in the federal Congress. (BH)Oct 19 -Establishment of a senior unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) under the provisions of the National Defense Act of June
3,1916. (JS)1917(1) 01/31 -Germany announced the renewal of unlimited submarine warfare in the Atlantic, and German torpedo-armed U-boats prepared to attack any and all ships, including
civilian passenger carriers, said to be sited in war-zone waters. Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and hours after that, the American liner
Housatonic was sunk by a U-boat. Within two months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and an outraged Congress had declared war. (BH) (2) US intervenes in World War I, rejects membership
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1918 11/11 -At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, the Great War ended as Germany, bereft of manpower, supplies, and food, signed an armistice agreement.
The war's tolls were nine million soldiers dead, twenty-one million wounded, and seven million taken prisoner or missing in action. (BH) Texan women win right to vote in primary elections
(KE)(1) Bryan -College Station Interurban abandoned. (JS) (2) First Telephone installed in Bryan. Pg. 32. (RO)1919(1) 01/16 -The 18th Amendment (the Prohibition Amendment) to the U.S.
Constitution, prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes," achieves the necessary two-thirds majority of state ratification,
and thus becomes the law of the land.m (BH) (2) 06/28 -At Versailles Palace outside of Paris, France, Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles with the Allies, officially ending World
War I. (BH) 1920Women given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment (JY) … ratified ? verify? 1920 Census reports Brazos Co population is 21,975. (JS)1920 Census reports Bryan's
population is 6,307. (JS) A. and M. Consolidated School opens, absorbs Shiloh School as well as Rock Prairie, Union Hill and Wellborn. First class of six graduated May 1922.(JC)192107/27
-At the University of Toronto, Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated insulin--a hormone that they believed could prevent diabetes--for the first
time. century. (BH)1922 05/30 -The Lincoln Memorial dedicated at Washington, D.C., contains a 19-foot seated figure of the sixteenth president carved out of Georgia marble by sculptor
Daniel Chester French. (BH)Jan 2 -E. King Gill stepped forward and A&M's 12th Man tradition was born as A&M (JS)1923The Disney Brothers Studio is founded by Walter E. Disney and Roy
O. Disney. (BH) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1876-1925
1924(1) 07/14 -With Congress’s passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, the government of the United States conferred citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits
of the country (BH) (2) 11/4 -Voters in two states struck blows for equality by electing America’s first female governors, Miriam A. Ferguson in Texas and Nellie Taylor Ross in Wyoming.
Both women were Democrats, and both of their husbands had been governors before them. (BH) 1925 03/31 -Mt. Rushmore National Memorial is authorized by Congress with sculptor Gutzon Borglum
to carve Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. (BH) Sept 3 -College Board of Directors resolves that "no girls should ever be admitted
to the College." This resolution applies to the relatives of faculty and staff. It also applies to summer sessions. (JS) 3/31/20081:44 PMCopy of Amer Mile Sum 1876-1925