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King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia are murdered in their palace by army officers
In a paper to a congress in Madrid, on the 'psychology and psychopathology of animals', Ivan Pavlov announces his discovery of the conditioned reflex
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors, the second of his three last novels written in rapid succession
The present granite Kew bridge, designed by Sir John Wolfe Barry and wider and flatter than its predecessor, is completed. The Ceremonial Opening is performed by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy identify the phenomenon of radioactive half-life
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi
Roger Casement, British consul in the Congo Free State, discovers appalling abuses by Belgian companies
An eight-storey riverside brick building, for use in the process of malting, is added to the ever-expanding Mortlake brewery
Edwin S. Porter directs The Great Train Robbery, providing a big commercial success for Thomas Edison's film company
Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X
British philosopher G.E. Moore publishes Principia Ethica, an attempt to apply logic to ethics
A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic
Maurice Ravel sets to music romantic oriental poems by Tristan Klingsor in his song-cycle Shéhérazade
The Colombian government rejects the Hay-Herrán treaty with the US on the Panama canal, thus prompting the break-away of Panama
William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year
US author W.E.B. Du Bois publishes his first collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk
Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the galvanometer, or electrocardiograph, for recording the electrical impulses within the heart muscle
The Pit, the second volume of an uncompleted trilogy by US novelist Frank Norris, is published posthumously
The first World Series is played between nine leading baseball teams from the National League and the American League
Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston
The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera
Work begins on England's first garden city, at Letchworth, based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard
Orville Wright travels 40 yards in the first successful powered flight, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina
