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Max Aitken, later Lord Beaverbook, buys a controlling share in the British newspaper the Daily Express
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 occupation of the General Post Office in Dublin marks the beginning of the Easter Rising
The rebel leader Patrick Pearse stands under the portico of Dublin's General Post Office to announce the birth of the Irish republic
Roger Casement is arrested after returning secretly to Ireland three days before the Easter Rising
Eamon de Valera comes to prominence as one of the republican leaders in the Easter Rising
The National Parks Service is set up within the US Department of the Interior
Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East
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
The Villa Schwob is completed, the last house designed by Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and one of the first in the world to use reinforced concrete
The success of Jenufa in Prague finally brings international recognition to Leos Janacek, already in his sixties
Patrick Pearse and his fellow Irish rebel James Connolly are executed by firing squad
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)
Manuel de Falla completes his piece for piano and orchestra, Nights in the Gardens of Spain
"If You Were the Only Girl in the World" features in the London musical The Bing Boys are Here
In his Course in General Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure provides the basis for the broader development of structuralism
William Boeing flies an aircraft built by himself, and a month later sets up in Seattle his own Aero Product company
Three members of the Russian imperial family assassinate the influential charlatan Grigory Rasputin
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
Ottorino Respighi completes his symphonic poem for orchestra Fountains of Rome, first performed in Rome the following year
