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Events relating to america
Thomas Edison invents a machine to record telephone conversations, calling it the telescribe
Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film
American campaigner for birth control Margaret Sanger publishes a controversial pamphlet, Family Limitation
US novelist Ernest Poole publishes The Harbor, set on the Brooklyn waterfront
Woodrow Wilson sends US marines to take control in Haiti after a spate of political assassinations
Charlie Chaplin makes The Tramp, giving prominence to the famous character he launched the previous year in Kid Auto Races at Venice
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
The election of Hipolito Irigoyen as president begins sixteen years of radical government in Argentina
'Earth's the right place for love' in Robert Frost's 'Birches', included in his collection Mountain Interval
The National Parks Service is set up within the US Department of the Interior
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
Woodrow Wilson sends the marines to maintain order when the Dominican Republic slips towards civil war
The US National Defense Act establishes the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
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
