Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Lawrence to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
... He commissioned a car that was to become the world's fastest, the Bugatti EB110 (so named to honour the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti's birth).
Bugatti EB ...