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Events relating to north america
Sea captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier unveils a plaque in the Arctic Archipelago, declaring that all the islands belong to Canada
President Taft builds the first Oval Office, in the new west wing of the White House
US physicist Robert A. Millikan devises an oil drop experiment that determines the charge of an electron
The Selig Polyscope Company sets up the first film studio in the Los Angeles region, at Edendale
President Taft sends marines to Nicaragua after the government there executes two US citizens
Joshua Slocum, the most famous sailor of the day, vanishes on another lone voyage
D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood
Lee De Forest broadcasts Enrico Caruso live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but with mixed success owing to the poor quality
Chicago cardiologist James Herrick publishes the first account of the cells causing sickle-cell anaemia
US geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan establishes the chromosome theory of heredity through his study of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
The US Congress passes the Mann White Slave Traffic Act, an attempt to control prostitution
Elizabeth Arden opens her first beauty salon on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan
Giacomo Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West premieres in New York
Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss biplane on the US cruiser Pennsylvania, pointing the way to the future development of the aircraft carrier
Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White
Al Jolson makes his first recording, That Haunting Melody, for the Victor label
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is broken up by US antitrust legislation
US inventor Isaac Newton Lewis patents a lighter version of the machine gun
US driver Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 motor race
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin
Scott Joplin completes a ragtime opera, Treemonisha
Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature
The Nestor Film Company opens the first film studio in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard
Conservative leader Robert Laird Borden becomes prime minister of Canada, ending fifteen years of Liberal rule under Wilfrid Laurier
Rudolph Wurlitzer's company in the USA produces the first of its famous movie theatre organs
