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The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is set up in Washington
Alexander Maximov, at a conference in Berlin, proposes the name Stammcelle ("stem cell") for recently discovered cells which can transform into different types of cell
The Young Turks of Salonika organize a successful uprising against the autocracy of the Ottoman sultan
Ezra Pound's first book of poems, A Lume Spento, is published in Italy
UK prime minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns because of ill health and is followed as Liberal leader and prime mininster by Herbert Asquith
David Lloyd George becomes chancellor of the exchequer in Asquith's new cabinet
The Polyscope Film Company releases the first horror movie, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, filmed from a popular stage production
The Burman Oil Company, developing a concession granted in 1901 to William Knox D'Arcy, discovers oil in Iran
Without financial support from his mother, Hitler ekes out a meagre living painting postcards and advertisements
Austria annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, in response to the policy of the Young Turks in Istanbul
Sergei Diaghilev presents Fyodor Chaliapin in Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera
The Liberal government in Britain introduces an old-age pension, albeit only five shillings a week.
Ernest Shackleton, leading an expedition to the Antarctic, locates the south magnetic pole
Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque introduces analytic Cubism
Claude Debussy completes Children's Corner, pieces for piano which include 'Golliwog's Cake Walk'
International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony
The sides and ramp of Kew Pond are concreted and railings erected all round
German physicist Hans Geiger, working in England with Rutherford, develops an instrument that can detect and count alpha particles
Augusto Leguía begins a long spell as the strong man of Peruvian politics
Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes write "Shine on, Harvest Moon" for The Follies of 1908
Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in a production by Stanislavsky
Bronislava Nijinska joins her brother Vaslav in the Maryinsky company in St Petersburg
After first being discussed at the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in 1906, SOS is formally ratified as the international distress signal
Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger patents cellophane, a flexible transparent film made from cellulose
Parliament in Australia chooses Canberra as the site of the nation's new capital
