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Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British
Elizabeth Arden opens her first beauty salon on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan
Wassily Kandinsky's paintings entitled Compositions are the first examples of purely abstract art
Ten men and two women establish the first kibbutz, at Degania in Palestine
Louis Botha is prime minister of the newly formed Union of South Africa, with Jan Smuts as his minister of interior and defence
The Steiner House, designed by the Austrian architect Adolf Loos, is completed in Vienna
Thomas Beecham sponsors and conducts his own season of opera at Covent Garden
The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, wandering from home in midwinter, dies of pneumonia in the stationmaster's house at Astapovo
Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible Deutschland provides the first commercial air service for passengers
Giacomo Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West premieres in New York
The Liberals win another general election called on the House of Lords issue, becoming the first British political party since 1832 to win three successive victories
Whitton Park estate is bought for housing and the house is demolished.
E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family
The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company
Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss biplane on the US cruiser Pennsylvania, pointing the way to the future development of the aircraft carrier
Charles Wilson, using his cloud chamber to detect the passage of charged particles, obtains his first photographs of alpha and beta rays
The lost Inca city of Machu Picchu is reached by US archaeologist Hiram Bingham
Ernest Rutherford proposes the concept of the nucleus as a positively charged mass at the centre of an atom
Richard Strauss changes musical direction with his opera Der Rosenkavalier, once again with libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal
Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall
Nearly 150 New York garment workers die in a factory fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White
Al Jolson makes his first recording, That Haunting Melody, for the Victor label
D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company
