American troops begin a three-year occupation of the country.
1906: German neurologist Alois Alzheimer identifies the degenerative brain disorder that today bears his name.1906: An earthquake, the worst ever to hit a U.S. city, strikes San Francisco on 18 April. It kills some 2,500 people, leaves another 250,000 homeless, and destroys more than $400 million worth of property.1906: Founding of the British Labour Party.1908: The Tunguska region of Siberia experiences a strange explosion, comparable to the detonation of a hydrogenbomb, whose causes will long be a subject of debate. Today many scientists believe that a comet caused the Tunguska event.1912: Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage, from Southampton to New York, on 14 April. More than 1,500 people are killed.1916: Battles of Verdun and the Somme on the Western Front. The latter sees the first use of tanks, by the British. Event and Its Context
Sinclair's BackgroundBorn in Baltimore, Maryland, on 20 September 1878, Sinclair was the only child of an alcoholic father and a teetotaling, deeply religious mother. His family moved to New York around 1886, and his mother educated Sinclair at home until age 10.
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