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York House is bought by Sir Ratan Tata, an Indian industrialist, who makes some alterations to the house and many to the grounds, including the sunken garden, the stone bridge and the lavish waterfall with marble statuary.

John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte

Hitler's mother Klara, to whom he was devoted, dies at the age of forty-seven

US inventor Lee De Forest patents the Audion, a sensitive vacuum-tube radio receiver

Michel Fokine creates the ballet Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana) to music by Chopin

Maria Montessori establishes her first Casa dei Bambini in the deprived San Lorenzo district of Rome

Russian author Maxim Gorky completes his novel Mat ("The Mother"), written mainly during a visit to the USA

President Roosevelt sends marines to protect US property during political unrest in Honduras

Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse

Dutch and British companies (Royal Dutch Oil, Shell Transport and Trading) merge to form Royal Dutch Shell Oil

An Entente signed between Britain and Russia follows on from the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France to establish a new Triple Entente

Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev presents five concerts of Russian music in Paris

A separatist party in Spain, Solidaridad Catalana, makes electoral gains in Catalonia

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a violent transition into cubism, is a turning point in western art

Henkel & Cie launches in Düsseldorf the first domestic washing powder, Persil

Austrian scientist Clemens von Pirquet discovers a diagnostic test to identify tuberculosis in a patient

James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners

A fossilized human jaw, probably at least 500,000 years old, is found near Heidelberg in Germany

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