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| 1906 |
| | The Great Valparaiso Earthquake damages much of central Chile and is felt from Peru to Buenos Aires | |
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| 1909 |
| | President Taft sends marines to Nicaragua after the government there executes two US citizens | |
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| 1910 |
| | A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved | |
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| 1911 |
| | President Taft sends US marines to Honduras to protect American banana interests during a spell of political turmoil | |
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| 1911 |
| | Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty' | |
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| 1912 |
| | President Taft sends US marines into Nicaragua during a period of disorder | |
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| 1913 |
| | A new and spectacular Grand Central Station opens in New York, designed by Charles Reed and Alan Stern | |
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| 1914 |
| | The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I | |
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| 1920 |
| | Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón | |
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| 1922 |
| | Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history | |
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