Pan American Exposition, an exposition held at Buffalo, New York, in 1901. It commemorated a century of material and cultural progress in the Western Hemisphere. The chief feature was a display of electric lights powered by the Niagara Falls. Total attendance was more than 8,000,000. President William McKinley was mortally wounded by an assassin while attending the exposition.
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