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Thomas Beecham uses his personal fortune from Beecham's Pills to found his first orchestra, the Beecham Symphony Orchestra
Set-designer Leon Bakst begins a long association with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
President Taft sends marines to Nicaragua after the government there executes two US citizens
In response to fears of German espionage a Secret Service Bureau, later to be divided into MI5 and MI6, is set up in Britain
The Conservative majority in the House of Lords rejects Lloyd George's reforming budget, giving the Liberals the chance to call an election on an emotive issue
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel has its premiere in Moscow
Joshua Slocum, the most famous sailor of the day, vanishes on another lone voyage
Stands A and B are built and the South Terrace is started at Twickenham Rugby ground .
Edward VII dies in London, after just nine years on the throne
The Union of South Africa becomes an independent dominion within the British empire
D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood
Lee De Forest broadcasts Enrico Caruso live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but with mixed success owing to the poor quality
British prime minister Herbert Asquith leads the Liberal party to a narrow victory, in an election fought on the issue of the House of Lords
The wife of Harvey Crippen, an American doctor working in north London, vanishes mysteriously
Agnes Baden-Powell establishes the Girl Guides, an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts
Edward Carson, previously a prominent Conservative politician at Westminster, becomes leader of the Ulster Unionist party
Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is first performed in Gloucester
Chicago cardiologist James Herrick publishes the first account of the cells causing sickle-cell anaemia
Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguett perform together at the Folies-Bergère
US geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan establishes the chromosome theory of heredity through his study of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
The Liver Building, surmounted by two legendary Liver Birds, is completed in Liverpool
UK prime minister Herbert Asquith plans to reduce the power of the House of Lords, but the upper house as yet is certain to block any such bill
In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past
Fritz Kreisler is the soloist in the first performance of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto
Alban Berg and Anton Webern follow Schoenberg in developing atonal music
