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On the outbreak of war, Hitler applies to join the German army and is enlisted in the Sixteenth Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment
Leonard and Virginia Woolf move to Richmond, taking rooms at 17 The Green (now also called Richmond House)
In action as a front-line HQ runner Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, for bravery
President Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the European war
J.B.M. Hertzog founds the National Party in South Africa to represent Afrikaner interests
George Ruth acquires the nickname Babe when he joins the baseball team the Baltimore Orioles
British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte
A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery
A building by Walter Gropius for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne brings him international attention
British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast
Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes
Royal-Dutch Shell begins to pump oil in Venezuela, launching the country as a major oil producer
Vaughan Williams writes a romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name
The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year
James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist
Calouste Gulbenkian earns his nickname – Mr Five Percent – from the share he receives for negotiating oil deals in the Ottoman empire
Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city
The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA
More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river
After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published
British golfer Harry Vardon wins his sixth Open, a record still unbroken
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life
The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston
