1901

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1898 1899 1900 - 1901 - 1902 1903 1904 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Unknown date 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes

Events

\n* 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.\n* January 1 - The six colonies that make up Australia are federated as under an act of the British Parliament, though full independence is a gradual process (see Australian Constitutional History).\n* January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate\n* January 7 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism\n* January 10 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas\n* 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.\n* February 20 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.\n* February 25 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.\n* March 2 - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.\n* March 6 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.\n* March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.\n* April 25 - New York state becomes the first to require automobile license plates.\n* May 9 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne. \n* May 27 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.\n* June 12 - Cuba becomes US protectorate\n* June 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens. It receives favorable reviews.\n* 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.\n* July 24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.\n* September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.\n* 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.\n* September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.\n*September 14 - With the death of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him as President of the United States\n* October 2 - Royal Navy's first submarine launched at Barrow\n* October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives\n* October 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.\n* October 29 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. \n*November 9 - Prince George, Duke of Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.\n* 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".\n* December 10 – Marie Curie receives doctorate\n* December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S." \n* In United Kingdom, Factory Act forbids child labor under 12\n* Two typhoid outbreaks in USA\n* Car license plates in New York City\n* Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons\n* In Germany, Eugen Hollander makes the first known facelift to a Polish noblewoman\n* Miller Reese Hutchinson patents Acousticon, a heavy hearing-aid prototype\n* Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive

Unknown date

\n*Cleveland Indians founded\n*Europium discovered by Eugéne Demarcay\n*First prototype Harley-Davidson created\n*Okapi discovered (previously known only to local natives)\n*Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan\n*The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm\n*End of Boxer Rebellion in China\n*Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatán surrender to Mexico \n

Births

\n* January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)\n* January 16 - Frank Zamboni, inventor; most famous for the Zamboni machine (d. 1988)\n* January 26 - Stuart Symington, politician (d. 1988)\n* January 27 - Willy Fritsch, actor (d. 1973)\n* January 29 - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer \n* January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)\n* January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (d. 1959)\n* January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (d. 1974)\n* February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor\n* February 2 - Jascha Heifetz, musician (d. 1987) \n* February 10 - Stella Adler, acting teacher (d. 1992)\n* February 16 - Wayne King, band leader ("The Waltz King")\n* February 25 - Zeppo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (d. 1979)\n* February 27 - Horatio Luro, Hall of Fame horse trainer (d. 1991)\n* February 28 - Linus Pauling, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962; only person to win two Nobel Prizes outright (d. 1994)\n* March 4 - Charles Goren, bridge expert\n* March 11 - Leopold III of Belgium\n* March 21 - Karl Arnold, politician (d. 1958)\n* March 24 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist (d. 1971)\n* March 27 - Carl Barks, Donald Duck illustrator\n* March 27 - Erich Ollenhauer, politician (d. 1963)\n* April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, spy (d. 1961)\n* April 29 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989)\n* May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, blues singer.\n* May 7 - Gary Cooper, actor (d. 1961)\n* May 17 - Werner Egk, composer (d. 1983)\n* May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world champion chess 1935-1937\n* May 21 - Horace Heidt, band leader (d. 1986)\n* May 21 - Sam Jaffe, producer (d. 2000)\n* June 17 - F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, WW II SOE agent and hero (d. 1964)\n* June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia \n* June 24 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer\n* July 20 - Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1971)\n* July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, painter\n* August 4 - Louis Armstrong, jazz musician (d. 1971)\n* September 9 - James Blades, English percussionist\n* September 28 - Ed Sullivan, American TV show host\n* September 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist\n* September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist\n* October 2 - Kiki, singer \n* October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor\n* November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, composer (d. 1999)\n* December 5 - Walter Elias Disney, later known as Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966)\n* December 5 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist\n* December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist \n* December 19 - Rudolf Hell, inventor\n* December 25- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester\n*Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, later second wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin.

Deaths

\n* January 22 - Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India dies, after the longest ever reign by a British monarch. \n* January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian grand opera composer\n* February 11 - Milan I, king of Serbia.\n* February 22 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician\n* March 13 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States\n* April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario\n* June 2 - George Leslie Mackay, missionary\n* July 4 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist\n* August 5 - The Empress Frederick, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of German Emperor Wilhelm II\n* September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter\n* September 14 - William McKinley US President\n* Abdur Rahman Khan, amir of Afghanistan

Nobel Prizes

\n* Physics - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen\n* Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff\n* Medicine - Emil Adolf von Behring\n* Literature - Sully Prudhomme\n* Peace - Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n