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Fantastic Early 21st Century This is the eighth grade exit project. The decade is 1910-1919.In this decade a lot happened! The first black boxer won a championship. Also the first Indianapolis 500 was won, sinking of Titanic (and sinking of the Empress Ireland), first crossword and lots more! In 1910, Jack Johnson became the first black boxer to win a heavy weight championship. Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas on March 31st, 1878. His boxing years were 1897-1928. Johnson fought 114 fights; he won 80 of them, 45 of them were knockouts. In 1908 Johnson knocked out Tommy Burns in Australia. Married three times. Johnson went to jail for taking his soon to be wife across the border, she was a different race than Johnson. Full name is John Arthur Johnson. He had bad publicity because he married a Caucasian woman. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 10th, 1946. In 1911, Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis 500. Ray was born in Spartanburg, PA. First race had 40 entries. Ray was the first to use review mirrors. First race had a pace car. They first called it: International Sweep stakes. It took 6 hours and 42 minutes. The average speed was 75 miles per hour. In 1910 Harroun was asked to build a race car by Howard G. Marmon. He won 14,000 dollars for winning the Indianapolis 500. Harroun won the race on May 30th, 1911. Retired the day he got the money. He died on January 19th ,1968, in Anderson, Indiana. Harroun was 89 years old. In 1912, the sinking of Titanic happened. This was probably the biggest event in this decade. The Titanic set sail on April 10th, 1912. Titanic struck an iceberg at 2:20 am, only four days after setting sail Titanic had a total of 2,437 passengers. Tried to steer clear of the iceberg but they hit it anyway. Molly Brown (passenger of Titanic) rowed a boat to safety. After Molly died she was called: The Unsinkable Molly Brown. First class had 329 people, only 109 survived. Second class had 285 people, only 119 survived. Third class had 710 people, only 174 survived. Crew had 899 people, only 214 survived. It has been almost 100 years since the sinking occurred. Many lifes were lost on Titanic, but this day will never be forgotten. In 1913, the first crossword was made. The person who made it was Arthur Wynne. Arthur’s full name is Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant. He was British. Wynne He called it “word-cross.” It became “crossword” because of a typo. The crossword was in a diamond shape not in a square shape. It was made on December 21st 1913. Wayne worked for New York World. He was born in Liverpool, England on June, 22nd 1871. Wynne died on January 22nd 1985. In 1914 a sinking occurred, it was the Empress of Ireland. Almost tragic like Titanic. Took place in the Gulf of Candies St. Lawrence River. The ship was built in Scotland. First class had 310 passengers. Second class had 470 passengers. Third class had 750 passengers. About 1,477 passengers died. Only 53 passengers out of every 1,477. The ship collided with the Norwegian Freight Ship. This took place 2 years after Titanic. Fog played a main roll in this tragic accident. This happened before the Great War. This accident occurred in the spring of 1914. In 1915, Alice Paul helped with women’s suffrage movement. Alice was assaulted when she helped with women’s rights. Joined Lucy Burns in womens suffrage. She was born in Moorestown, New Jersey on January 11th, 1885. Alice went to college in 1905. She graduated from New York City and England. 1906-1909 she became a political locative. Alice was arrested and imprisoned three times. Alice was assaulted. She spent most of her life fighting for women’s rights. Alice became involved in the struggle for women to vote. She devoted her life to fighting for women’s rights. Alice died on July 9th, 1977 in Moorestown, New Jersey. In 1916, Rasputin was murdered by Russian Nobles. He was a Siberian mystic healer, maybe that’s why it took a lot to kill him. Rasputin got married at the age of 19. People couldn’t decide whether he was a savior or demon. He was just a Russian himself and got killed by his own kind. Rasputin was born on January 22, 1869in Siberia. He didn’t die so easily they had to poison him, that didn’t work, so they tried shooting in 1916 that didn’t work and finally they drowned him and that worked. Rasputin died on December 30th In 1917, four earthquakes took place. The first one was on September 12th at 3:25 am. The earthquake that struck was mild. Just 12 days after that another earthquake was felt on September 24th at 1:21 am. On October 2nd three earthquake shocks were felt at 11:40 am. October 26th mild rocking was felt at 1:20 am. Many houses collapsed, rockslides blocked rivers. Iron bridges turned over. This was a horrible two months. In 1918, the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family happened. The empress watched them die. Tsar was Russia’s last empire; he took the throne in February 1917. This occurred on July 17th 1918. Tsar and his family were kept as prisoners. They died by multiple shootings. People thought the world war was too much for Tsar to handle and therefore he wanted to die. It took 72 years to find out about there execution. In 1990 people started to find out that the Nicholas family was executed. In 1919, Franklin Roosevelt married his long distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt. They got married in New York City on March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day.) They had 6 children but Franklin Jr. died as an infant. After that they had 1 girl and 4 boys. Franklin had an affair with Eleanor’s secretary Lucy. The affair continued throughout there marriage. Eleanor didn’t know about the affair until she found love letters in Franklin’s brief case from Lucy. Immediately Eleanor wanted a divorce, but Franklin didn’t want to hurt there family and it would be bad publicity for Franklin. Franklin and Lucy had an affair until the day Franklin died on May 7th 1945.

Madison Presnell