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The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the 125-ton vessel Venoga, is launched on Lake Geneva
The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising
Hitler moves to Vienna, hoping to be a painter, but is twice rejected as a student by the Academy of Fine Arts
Thomas Dixon's popular novel The Clansman presents the Ku Klux Klan in heroic terms
In Charles Ives' composition The Unanswered Question the trumpet repeatedly asks 'the perennial question of existence'
The first Grand Prix of motor-racing is held near Le Mans over a 64-mile course
The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania
Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago
Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War
Reginald Fessenden transmits on Christmas Eve, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, the world's first radio broadcast
Hitler's mother Klara, to whom he was devoted, dies at the age of forty-seven
Dutch and British companies (Royal Dutch Oil, Shell Transport and Trading) merge to form Royal Dutch Shell Oil
Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a violent transition into cubism, is a turning point in western art
The Transvaal government presents to Edward VII the Cullinan diamond, now part of the British crown jewels
The British liner Lusitania sets a new record for the Atlantic crossing, on the first of four such occasions
A midwest region, including what remains of the reserved Indian Territory, is included in Oklahoma when it joins the Union as the 46th state
A new weekly 'table of diet' is approved by the committee of the National Orphan Home for Females, in Ham
Alexander Maximov, at a conference in Berlin, proposes the name Stammcelle ("stem cell") for recently discovered cells which can transform into different types of cell
Without financial support from his mother, Hitler ekes out a meagre living painting postcards and advertisements
German physicist Hans Geiger, working in England with Rutherford, develops an instrument that can detect and count alpha particles
Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger patents cellophane, a flexible transparent film made from cellulose
The first Model T Ford rolls off the production line at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit
Gideons International place their first bible in a hotel bedroom, in Montana, USA
French biologist Charles Nicolle discovers that epidemic typhus is transmitted by the body louse
Joshua Slocum, the most famous sailor of the day, vanishes on another lone voyage
