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| 1900 |
| | David Belasco's play Madame Butterfly has its premiere in New York, and is subsequently seen in London by Giacomo Puccini | |
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| 1901 |
| | Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland | |
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| 1902 |
| | A.E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves | |
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| 1903 |
| | Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and artistic salon | |
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| 1905 |
| | The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London | |
| | Jacob and the Angel Epstein, 1941 Tate Britain
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| 1910 |
| | The wife of Harvey Crippen, an American doctor working in north London, vanishes mysteriously | |
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| 1911 |
| | Italy finds a reason to invade Libya, a province of the Turkish empire. | |
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| 1912 |
| | The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew | |
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| 1912 |
| | Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya | |
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| 1913 |
| | Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica | |
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