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Events relating to america
Nearly 150 New York garment workers die in a factory fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
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
President Taft sends US marines to Honduras to protect American banana interests during a spell of political turmoil
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
Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty'
Baseball pitcher Cy Young retires with a record achievement of 511 wins in 22 professional seasons
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
The US composer Irving Berlin writes 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'
Jelly Roll Morton plays in New York his Jelly Roll Blues
New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States of America
US aeroplane designer Glenn Curtis demonstrates the potential of the first successful flying boat, The Flying Fish
Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States of America
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
German scientist Alfred Wegener, impressed by the neat fit between the coasts of Africa and South America, proposes the theory of continental drift
President Taft sends US marines to Cuba because of political unrest in the island
