1.
Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque unleash
cubism upon the world. Picasso paints his seminal
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
2. The
Lusitania and the
Mauretania are launched into
transatlantic service.
3. The
bubonic plague devastates
India, killing 1.2 million people.
4. Irish playwright
John Millington Synge’s
The Playboy of the Western World debuts.
5. The
Second Hauge Conference tackles the problem of
global disarmament and establishes important conventions of
international law.
6. The flow of
immigrants to the US peaks at 1.2 million.
7.
Pope Pius X purges the
Modernist movement from the church.
8.
Philosopher Henri Bergson introduces the idea of
élan vital ("life force") in his work
Creative Evolution.
9. The
Panic of 1907 – depositors deplete the cash supply in a run on US banks.
10.
Carl Hagenbeck opens the first modern
zoo outside
Hamburg.
11. The "mad monk"
Rasputin enters the inner circle at the
Czar’s court.
12. Dr.
Sun Yat-sen proposes democratic reforms in
China.
13.
Bud Fisher’s
Mutt and Jeff is the first
comic strip to run during the week.
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Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th century