Modern Era · North America · Culture
1904
St. Louis World's Fair opens
April 30, 1904
To celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, St. Louis mounted an exposition sprawling across twelve hundred acres with palaces, canals, and human beings from the Philippines and Africa displayed in mock villages. Ice cream cones and iced tea debuted. The fair embodied an era's racial assumptions and its appetite for spectacle.
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Also in 1904 (4 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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