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UK prime minister Herbert Asquith plans to reduce the power of the House of Lords, but the upper house as yet is certain to block any such bill
Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back
Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow
Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible Deutschland provides the first commercial air service for passengers
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories
Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapts the English medieval morality play Everyman ('Jedermann') for performance in Salzburg
Rudolph Wurlitzer's company in the USA produces the first of its famous movie theatre organs
US aeroplane designer Glenn Curtis demonstrates the potential of the first successful flying boat, The Flying Fish
A national uprising against Turkish rule in Albania launches a full-scale Balkan war
The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew
The first sea-going diesel-powered ship, the Selandia, is constructed and launched in Denmark
Electoral reform is introduced in Argentina, with universal male suffrage and a secret ballot
Theodore Roosevelt's followers form a rival party to the Republicans, soon to be known as the Bull Moose party
An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia
Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Republicans Taft and Roosevelt to become the 28th president of the USA
An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans
Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia
Hitler moves to Munich to begin a new life, and in an attempt to avoid Austrian military service
The US navy begins transmitting by radio a regular time signal, much used by the nation's watchmakers and menders.
The Morris company launches the Morris Oxford, later known as the Bullnose Morris from the shape of its radiator
The Canadian Arctic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sets off to the north
Albert Schweitzer and his wife become missionaries at Lambaréné in west Africa
The Treaty of Bucharest assigns to Greece nearly all the Greek-speaking regions in the Balkans and Mediterranean
An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America
Summoned to Austria for military service, Hitler is rejected as being physically unfit
