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| 1900 |
| | | Harvey Firestone sets up the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The Bayer company in Germany sells aspirin in the form of water-soluble tablets, the first medication of its kind | |
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| 1900 |
| | | More than 8000 people die when a hurricane demolishes the seaside resort of Galveston in Texas | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The concept of instant coffee is developed in Chicago by the Japanese American chemist Satori Kato | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The 1901 census reveals that the population of the United Kingdom has almost doubled in 50 years, to 38 million | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits | |
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| 1902 |
| | | North Carolina pharmacist Caleb Bradham launches the Pepsi-Cola company in a back room of his shop | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The US Congress makes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 permanent, without the need for ten-year renewals | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Brooklyn shopkeepers Morris and Rose Michtom have a huge success with their presidential 'Teddy's Bear' | |
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| 1903 |
| | | William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year | |
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