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J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London
Alban Berg and Anton Webern study composition with Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna
Alexander Scriabin completes his Third Symphony, The Divine Poem, which is given its first performance in Paris in 1905
US architect Louis Sullivan completes the Schlesinger & Meyer Store (later known as the Carson, Pirie & Scott Store) in Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt wins the US presidental election in his own right
US inventor King C. Gillette receives a patent for a disposable safety razor
Under the pseudonym Saki, H.H. Munro publishes Reginald, his first volume of short stories
Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes the first of a great many recordings
US president Theodore Roosevelt announces the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, in response to crises in Latin America
Dublin's Abbey Theatre opens as a new home for the Irish National Theatre Society
Gwen John makes her home in Paris, where she becomes Rodin's model and mistress
Britain's Automobile Association is founded, with patrol-men on bicycles to assist drivers
Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government
The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London
Edmund Beecher Wilson and Nettie Stevens independently discover the chromosomal XX and XY sex determination system
Troops fire on a demonstration in St Petersburg, in the event which becomes known as Bloody Sunday
Industrial Workers of the World (with its members later known as Wobblies) is founded in Chicago as a radical union initiative
The Bloomsbury Group gathers for informal evenings at the family home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephens (later Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell)
Strikes and riots sweep across Russia in the wake of St Petersburg's Bloody Sunday
Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect as a flow of discreet particles (quanta) of electromagnetic radiation
Henry Wood sets 'Rule Britannia' in his Fantasia on British Sea Songs, providing a traditional favourite for the last night of the Proms
More than 360,000 Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only 184 against
The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War
English engineer Herbert Austin sets up a factory to manufacture cars at Longbridge, south of Birmingham
Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain
