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Memphis Blues is composed by 'father of the blues' W.C. Handy
An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia
By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey
The opera Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its first premiere in Stuttgart
Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners
Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself
Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Republicans Taft and Roosevelt to become the 28th president of the USA
An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans
Giacomo Balla attempts to paint movement in his futurist Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries
Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia
Kingston Bridge is widened and the carriageway increased from 25 to 55 feet with a new facade of Portland Stone to replicate features of the original
Hitler moves to Munich to begin a new life, and in an attempt to avoid Austrian military service
Unionists in Ulster aim to raise a Volunteer Force of 100,000 men, and begin drilling with dummy wooden rifles
A new and spectacular Grand Central Station opens in New York, designed by Charles Reed and Alan Stern
Cecil B. de Mille, Jesse Lasky and Sam Goldwyn join forces to form a film production company
The Armory Show (officially the International Exhibition of Modern Art) is a sensation in New York
In O Pioneers Willa Cather finds her major theme, life on the frontier
Walter Sickert paints Ennui, depicting a difficult or dreary moment in a marriage
The Vickers Fighting Biplane No 1 is unveiled in London at the Olympia Aero Show as the world's first purpose-built fighter plane
The US navy begins transmitting by radio a regular time signal, much used by the nation's watchmakers and menders.
In Pollyanna Eleanor Porter introduces an immensely successful character, the irrepressibly optimistic orphan Pollyanna Whittier
Dinizulu's son Solomon follows his father as king or chief of the Zulu people, and direct descendants of Shaka's brother Mwande continue to inherit until today
Albert Einstein formulates the law of photochemical equivalence, a fundamental principle of chemical reactions induced by light
The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb
