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