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Events relating to america
George Ruth acquires the nickname Babe when he joins the baseball team the Baltimore Orioles
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte
Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes
Royal-Dutch Shell begins to pump oil in Venezuela, launching the country as a major oil producer
The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA
More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life
The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston
Margaret Anderson publishes in Chicago the first issue of The Little Review, a monthly literary magazine
The Assemblies of God is established as the largest affiliation of Pentecostal churches
Martha, 29 years old and the last passenger pigeon in the world, dies in the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio
The American writer Amy Lowell publishes an Imagist collection of poems, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
The sculptor Constantin Brancusi has his first one-man exhibition, at Stieglitz's gallery in New York
The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry
The Clayton Act strengthens many aspects of US antitrust legislation
The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I
Charlie Chaplin introduces his most famous character, the little tramp, in Kid Auto Races at Venice
More than 30,000 troops in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sail to fight with Britain
Maximilian von Spee sinks two British cruisers off Coronel, on the Pacific coast of south America
Maximilian von Spee's squadron of cruisers is sunk by the British off the Falkland Islands
Alexander Graham Bell again summons his assistant Thomas Watson (as in 1876), but this time he is in New York and Watson in San Francisco
Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson loses his title, in the 26th round, to the "Great White Hope", Jess Willard
The Corning Glass Company launches Pyrex, a new range of heat-resistant kitchen ware made from borosilicate glass
D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation has its premiere in New York
Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris
