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The world's first custom-built motor-racing track opens at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey
The Transvaal government presents to Edward VII the Cullinan diamond, now part of the British crown jewels
The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Munich as an association of architects, designers and industrialists
Frederick Delius completes Brigg Fair, an 'English Rhapsody' for orchestra, first performed in Liverpool in 1908
Samuel Simon, working in Manchester, takes out a patent for the use of silk to support a stencil
The first International Horse Show takes place in London's Olympia stadium
The Harvester Judgement establishes a minimum wage in Australia
The National Physical Laboratory begins an ongoing and still continuing task, testing for accuracy the meters of taxi cabs
Swedish playwright August Strindberg publishes The Ghost Sonata, which has its first performance in Stockholm the following year
New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion
The British liner Lusitania sets a new record for the Atlantic crossing, on the first of four such occasions
Harry Lauder has a hit in the USA with his recording of I Love a Lassie
US cartoonist Bud Fisher creates Mutt and Jeff for the San Francisco Chronicle, in the world's first daily comic strip
A midwest region, including what remains of the reserved Indian Territory, is included in Oklahoma when it joins the Union as the 46th state
20-year-old Le Corbusier builds his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in his native Switzerland
President Roosevelt sends a fleet of warships on a goodwill tour of the world that also demonstrates US power
Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed for her by Michel Fokine to music by Saint-Saëns
The Rugby Football Union buys 8.9 acres of land which becomes known as Billy Williams Cabbage Patch from its former agricultural use.
Robert Baden-Powell publishes Scouting for Boys, the success of which leads to the establishment of the Scouts
Jack London's novel Iron Heel foresees a future repressive capitalist regime in the USA
Rat, Mole and Toad, in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, appeal to a wide readership
The king of Portugal, Carlos I, and his heir, Luis Filipe, are shot as they ride in an open carriage in Lisbon
Anatole France casts a satirical eye on human society in his novel L'Île des pingouins ("Penguin Island")
A new weekly 'table of diet' is approved by the committee of the National Orphan Home for Females, in Ham
Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer write Take Me Out to the Ball Game, which becomes one of the most popular songs in the USA
