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Baseball pitcher Cy Young retires with a record achievement of 511 wins in 22 professional seasons
Alfred Adler ends his association breaks with Sigmund Freud and forms his own school of psychology
The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin is assassinated in a Kiev theatre
Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force
A ship tank, 150 metres long, is opened at the National Physical Laboratory for marine testing
Copper mining begins in Katanga, soon to be followed by the extraction of even more profitable diamonds
Bruno Walter conducts in Munich the first performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, a few months after the composer's death
French composer Henri Duparc publishes a complete edition of his songs
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completes his designs for mosaics in the Palais Stoclet in Brussels
Conservative leader Robert Laird Borden becomes prime minister of Canada, ending fifteen years of Liberal rule under Wilfrid Laurier
An uprising in the city of Wuchang is the first major event in the rapidly developing Chinese revolution
Rudolph Wurlitzer's company in the USA produces the first of its famous movie theatre organs
Walter Gropius builds the Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine in Germany
The US composer Irving Berlin writes 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'
The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India
Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky leave Russia for the west
Jelly Roll Morton plays in New York his Jelly Roll Blues
Robert Lorimer completes a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh
The painters Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and others form Der Blaue Reiter
In an article in Science Thomas Hunt Morgan shows that his experiments with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster confirm the chromosomal Sutton-Boveri theory
Roald Amundsen and his Norwegian team become the first people to stand at the South Pole
The Italian premier, Giovanni Giolitti, introduces reformist legislation including a national insurance act
Bernard Leach discovers his skill and future craft at a raku party in Japan, where each guest is invited to throw a pot
A footbridge, designed by François Hennibique, is built just south of Kew Gardens station with narrow deck and high walls to protect users' clothing from the smoke of trains.
A republic of China is proclaimed, with Sun Yatsen as its provisional president
