1900s

File:1900s decademontage2.png|335px|thumb|right|From left, clockwise: the Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight with a motorized airplane, in Kitty Hawk in 1903; a missionary points to the severed hand of a Congolese villager, symbolic of Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State, which ended in 1908; the 1908 Messina earthquake kills 75,000–82,000 people and becomes the most destructive earthquake ever to strike Europe; the United States gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine–American War; rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal in 1907; Admiral Tog