1901

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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 - Australia is federated as an independent nation under an act of the British Parliament.
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.
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 United States 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 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens.
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.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."

Cleveland Indians founded
Europium discovered by Eugéne Demarcay[?]
First prototype Harley-Davidson created
Okapi discovered (previously known only to local natives)
Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan
The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm
Change of US presidency from William McKinley (1897-1901) to Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
In September, President of the United States William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies eight days later. Theodore Roosevelt takes the Oath of Office.
End of Boxer Rebellion in China
Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatan surrender to Mexico

Art, Culture & Fashion

1901 in film
1901 in literature
1901 in music
- "Piano Concerto No. 2" by Rachmaninoff
1901 in sports
- Baseball (US) : The American and National Leagues agree to peacefully coexist and organise a World Series between their champions, which would be first held in 1903.

Births:

January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (+ 1963)
January 26 - Stuart Symington[?], politician (+ 1988)
January 27 - Willy Fritsch[?], actor (+ 1973)
January 29 - Allen Du Mont[?], television pioneer
January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola[?], driver of racing cars (+ 1959)
January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz[?], writer (+ 1974)
February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor
February 2 - Jascha Heifetz[?], musician (+ 1987)
February 10 - Stella Adler[?], acting teacher (+ 1992)
February 16 - Wayne King[?], band leader ("The Waltz King")
February 25 - Zeppo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (+ 1929)
February 28 - Linus Pauling, the only winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962 (+ 1994)
March 4 - Charles Goren[?], bridge expert
March 11 - Leopold III of Belgium
March 21 - Karl Arnold[?], politician (+ 1958)
March 24 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist (+ 1971)
March 27 - Carl Barks, Donald Duck illustrator
March 27 - Erich Ollenhauer[?], politician (+ 1963)
April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, spy (+ 1961)
May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, blues singer.
May 7 - Gary Cooper, actor (+ 1961)
May 17 - Werner Egk[?], composer (+ 1983)
May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world champion chess 1935-1937
May 21 - Horace Heidt[?], band leader (+ 1986)
May 21 - Sam Jaffe[?], actor (+ 2000)
June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
June 24 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer
August 4 - Louis Armstrong Jazz musician
September 28 - Ed Sullivan, American TV show host
September 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist
October 2 - Kiki, singer
October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor
November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, composer (+ 1999)
December 5 - Walter Elias Disney, later known as Walt Disney, American animator and film producer.
December 5 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist
December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural antropologist
December 19 - Rudolf Hell, inventor
Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Deaths:

January 22 - Queen Victoria monarch of the United Kingdom,dies after the longest reign on the throne in English/British thrones.
January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian grand opera composer
February 11 - Milan I[?], king of Serbia.
February 22 - George Francis FitzGerald[?], mathematician
March 13 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario
August 5 - The Empress Frederick, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of German Emperor Wilhelm II
September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
Abdur Rahman Khan, amir of Afghanistan

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