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Events relating to north america
Typhoid-carrier Mary Mallon is detained in New York after leaving a trail of destruction
The inflationary pressures of world war force nations to abandon the established gold standard
Edgar Lee Masters makes his name as a poet with the publication of Spoon River Anthology
William Joseph Simmons, a suspended Methodist preacher in Georgia, wins a big racist following in the south with his revival of the defunct Ku Klux Klan
The opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, has its premiere in New York
Haiti becomes a US protectorate, under the terms of a treaty signed in the previous year
Enrique Granados, on the last leg of his return from New York, is one of many civilians to die when the Sussex is torpedoed by a U-boat in the English Channel
'Earth's the right place for love' in Robert Frost's 'Birches', included in his collection Mountain Interval
The Provincetown Players are founded in Massachusetts, opening with a production of Eugene O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff
In his first World Series for the Boston Red Sox, 21-year-old Babe Ruth sets a still unbroken record, pitching 13 successive scoreless innings
William Boeing flies an aircraft built by himself, and a month later sets up in Seattle his own Aero Product company
The Passing Show of 1916 is the first of 22 musicals written in the short span of 17 years by the brothers George and Ira Gershwin
In his ground-breaking film Intolerance D.W. Griffith intercuts four parallel stories from different historical periods
The Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) publishes her first collection, Sea Garden
Margaret Sanger opens the first US birth control clinic, in a poor district of Brooklyn, and is gaoled for thirty days
Captain Peter Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, designs the Nissen Hut for the Allied armies
Woodrow Wilson wins re-election as US president after campaigning on the slogan 'He kept us out of war'
Marcel Duchamp submits a ceramic urinal to the Society of Independent Artists in New York, giving it the title Fountain
New York responds with enthusiasm when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band performs a new kind of music in Reisenweber's restaurant
The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives
Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props
Comedian Buster Keaton makes his first appearance in a film, The Butcher Boy
The first annual prizes are awarded, under the terms of Joseph Pulitzer's will, for the best new US novel, play, history and biography
Race riots against migrant southern blacks in East St Louis, Missouri, leave forty-eight dead
The US Congress passes the Eighteenth Amendment, legislating for the introduction of Prohibition
