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by
Berek
Thu Sep 11 2003 at 20:08:30
Events
British
fears grow as the
German
navy
expands its
fleet
A
Royal Commission
on the
poor laws
in Britain condemns
workhouses
.
The British
Prime Minister
Lloyd George
introduces a
Budget
to raise taxes and fund
pensions
- the move meets with
Tory
fury and sparks a constitutional crisis.
The Union of
South Africa
is proclaimed, uniting the British
Cape Colony
and
Natal
and the
Boer
Transvaal
and
Orange River
colonies.
Suffragettes
on
hunger strike
in
Birmingham
are subjected to
force feeding
.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
completes the
Glasgow
School of Art.
An
earthquake
hits
Messina
in southern
Italy
, killing around 200,000 people.
British explorer
Ernest Shackleton
almost reaches the
South Pole
.
The
prohibition
movement closes many
saloon
bars in the
United States
.
Robert E. Peary
of the US reaches the
North Pole
, amid controversial claims by
Dr Frederick Cook
that he had reached the pole earlier.
Young Turks
topple
Sultan
Abdul Hamid
in
Constantinople
.
Louis Bleriot
flies the
English Channel
for the first time.
Georges Clemenceau
and
Bernhard von Bulow
end their tenures as head of the
French
and
German
governments.
12-year-old Prince Sultan Ahmed
Mirza
of
Persia
replaces his ousted brother,
Mohammad
, as
Shah
.
Paris
is rocked by riots as a mob protest outside the
Spanish
embassy
against a Spanish
anarchist
's execution in
Barcelona
.
Guglielmo Marconi
wins a
Nobel prize
for his contributions to
radio
.
Filippo Marinetti
publishes the "
Futurist
Manifesto of Poetry
" in
Le Figaro
.
Indian
nationalists
adopt terror tactics in a spate of killings.
Japanese
statesman Prince
Ito Hirobumi
, known as the "Japanese
Bismarck
", is assassinated by a
Korean
nationalist.
The
Ballets Russes
, presented by
Sergei Diaghilev
, debuts in Paris.
Deaths
The
Chinese
Empress
Dowager
Ci Xi
Chiricahua
Apache
chief
Geronimo
Irish
playwright
John Synge
, who wrote "
The Playboy of the Western World
"
British poet and literary critic
Algernon Charles Swinburne
British writer
George Meredith
US industrialist
Edward H Harriman
Japanese statesman Prince
Ito Hirobumi
(see above)
Belgian
King Leopold II
Spanish pianist and composer
Isaac Albeniz
Louis Prang
, "Father of the Christmas Card"
Sources:
Chronicle of Britain
, Chronicle Communications Ltd, 1992
Chronicle of The World
, Chronicle Communications Ltd, 1989
20th Century Day by Day
, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2000
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Isle of the Dead
John Thomas Cholmondeley-Minge
Jo van Heutsz
Coquitlam
Ray Chapman
Isaac Albéniz
Enrico Cecchetti
Phroth
West Highland White Terrier
John D. Rockefeller
Albert Langen
Frederick Greenwood
William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby
Arthur William à Beckett
No Country for Old Men
James Harrison Rigg
Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
Pencho Slaveykov
Socialist International
Wolfgang Köhler
Remington
Song of a Train