1907

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• New Zealand becomes virtually independent of Britain.

• Dutch troops occupy Sumatra.

• In Britain, Robert Baden-Powell (who defended Mafeking in 1900) forms the Boy Scout movement.

• Gandhi begins the first non-violent resistance campaign against anti-Indian racial policies in South Africa.

• Leo Baekland invents a synthetic resin, Bakelite, the first of many synthetic plastics.

• Artist Pablo Picasso exhibits Les demoiselles d'Avignon (Women of Avignon), a painting that introduces a new angular form of visual expression, an early example of what soon becomes the Cubist style.

• Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg's atonal Chamber Symphony causes uproar when it is first performed.

• The first electric washing machines are built.

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