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Events relating to north america
The US composer Irving Berlin writes 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'
Jelly Roll Morton plays in New York his Jelly Roll Blues
US aeroplane designer Glenn Curtis demonstrates the potential of the first successful flying boat, The Flying Fish
Former president Theodore Roosevelt campaigns against President Taft for the Republican nomination
Lillian and Dorothy Gish make their screen debut with the Biograph Company
The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew
President Taft sends US marines to Cuba because of political unrest in the island
William Howard Taft defeats Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican convention to win the nomination
Theodore Roosevelt's followers form a rival party to the Republicans, soon to be known as the Bull Moose party
Mack Sennett sets up the Keystone studio in California, soon to be famous for the knockabout farce of the Keystone Kops
Renascence is the title poem in college student Edna St Vincent Millay's first published collection
Memphis Blues is composed by 'father of the blues' W.C. Handy
Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Republicans Taft and Roosevelt to become the 28th president of the USA
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
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
The Woolworth Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, a distinction it retains until 1930
The Canadian Arctic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sets off to the north
US poet Robert Frost publishes his first book of poems, A Boy's Will
Henry Ford pioneers the moving assembly line in the manufacture of cars at his company's Michigan plant
The Brillo Manufacturing Company markets the first Brillo pads in the USA
The foxtrot, possibly introduced by US performer Harry Fox, becomes an immensely popular ballroom dance
