1901

Years: 1898 1899 1900 - 1901 - 1902 1903 1904
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

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1 Events

Events

January 1 - World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. (Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide).
January 1 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister.
January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
January 7 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism
January 10 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas
January 22 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. His own son Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay.
February 20 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
February 25 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
March 2 - The U.S. Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
March 6 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

April 25 - New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
May 9 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
May 27 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
June 2 - Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan
June 12 - Cuba becomes US protectorate
June 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens. It receives favorable reviews.

July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.
July 24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
September 2 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.
September 6 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies there eight days later.
September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol .
September 14 - With the death of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him as President of the United States.

October 2 - Royal Navy's first submarine launched at Barrow
October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives
October 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
October 29 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
November 9 - Prince George, Duke of Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
December 3 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 10 – Marie Curie receives doctorate. The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."

In the United Kingdom, Factory Act forbids child labor under 12
Two typhoid outbreaks in USA
Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons
In Germany, Eugen Hollander makes the first known facelift to a Polish noblewoman
Miller Reese Hutchinson patents Acousticon , a heavy hearing-aid prototype
Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive
Cleveland Indians founded
Europium discovered by Eugéne Demarcay
First prototype Harley-Davidson created
Okapi discovered (previously known only to local natives)
Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatán surrender to Mexico

January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
January 4 - CLR James, writer and journalist (d. 1989)
January 16 - Frank Zamboni, inventor; most famous for the Zamboni machine (d. 1988)
January 26 - Stuart Symington, politician (d. 1988)
January 27 - Willy Fritsch , actor (d. 1973)
January 29 - Allen Du Mont , television pioneer
January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (d. 1959)
January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz , writer (d. 1974)
February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
February 2 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
February 10 - Stella Adler, acting teacher (d. 1992)
February 16 - Wayne King , band leader ("The Waltz King")
February 25 - Zeppo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (d. 1979)
February 27 - Horatio Luro, Hall of Fame horse trainer (d. 1991)
February 28 - Linus Pauling, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962; only person to win two Nobel Prizes outright (d. 1994)
March 4 - Charles Goren, bridge expert (d. 1991)
March 11 - Leopold III of Belgium (d.. 1983)
March 21 - Karl Arnold, politician (d. 1958)
March 24 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist (d. 1971)
March 27 - Carl Barks, Donald Duck illustrator (d. 2000)
March 27 - Erich Ollenhauer, politician (d. 1963)