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Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration
Margaret Anderson publishes in Chicago the first issue of The Little Review, a monthly literary magazine
The Times Literary Supplement is published in London as an independent paper, separate from The Times
The Assemblies of God is established as the largest affiliation of Pentecostal churches
Vaughan Williams' London Symphony, including picturesque sounds of the city's street life, is first performed
The Russian painter and sculptor Vladimir Tatlin develops an abstract style to which he gives the name Constructivism
Martha, 29 years old and the last passenger pigeon in the world, dies in the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio
Giacomo della Chiesa is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XV
The American writer Amy Lowell publishes an Imagist collection of poems, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
A Home Rule Act is finally passed for Ireland, with its implementation postponed until after the war
The sculptor Constantin Brancusi has his first one-man exhibition, at Stieglitz's gallery in New York
The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry
Jacob Epstein completes his sculpture The Rock Drill, the outstanding work of the Vorticist movement
The Clayton Act strengthens many aspects of US antitrust legislation
The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I
Tsar Nicholas II changes the name of his capital city to Petrograd, because St Petersburg sounds German
Benito Mussolini, advocating Italian entry into the war on the side of the Allies, is expelled from the Socialist party
Harold Macmillan joins the King's Royal Rifle Corps, transferring a few months later to the Grenadier Guards
Stanley Spencer joins the Royal Army Medical Corps, with whom he finds a wealth of subject matter
Benito Mussolini founds a newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia' ('The People of Italy'), to argue the case for Italy joining the war
Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is published posthumously in an abbreviated version
Ivor Novello has a great success with his topical song Keep the Home Fires Burning (with lyrics by Lena Ford)
Charlie Chaplin introduces his most famous character, the little tramp, in Kid Auto Races at Venice
The British government changes the status of Egypt from a Turkish province to a British protectorate
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip
