1988 Event World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Australia 1984 Event World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans 1967 Event Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) 1962 Event Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington 1946 Event "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 1939 Event Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure) 1939 Event Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island 1934 Event Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago 1933 Event Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago 1926 Event Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia 1915 Event Panama Pacific International Exposition opens 1915 Event Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco 1915 Event Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF 1914 Event Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco) 1914 Event Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco 1913 Event Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco 1912 Event South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free 1909 Event Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens 1909 Event Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle 1907 Event Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens 1905 Event Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon 1905 Event World Exposition opens in Luik 1904 Event Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St. Louis 1901 Event President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1901 Event Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo 1900 Event Henry O. Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition 1900 Event International Exposition opens in Paris 1898 Event Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha 1893 Event 1st Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition 1893 Event World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago 1889 Event Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed 1879 Event 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition 1876 Event Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
