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London has 400 cinemas; in U.S. approx. 5,000,000 people visit cinemas daily.
British coal strike, London dock strike, and transport workers' strike.
R.F. Scott reaches the South Pole.
S.S Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg; 1,513 drown.
First successful parachute jump.
Polish chemist Kasimir Funk coins the term "vitamine".
Remains of Piltdown Man "found" near Lewes, England; believed to be 50,000 years old. (Proved to be a hoax in 1953.)
John M. Synge:
Playboy of the Western World.