1901

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 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).
   * 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.
   * July 24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after
     serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
   * 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
     succeedes him as President of the United States
   * 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.
   * 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 EugŽne 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
   * End of Boxer Rebellion in China
   * Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatan surrender to Mexico

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 17 - F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, WW II SOE agent and hero (+ 1964)
   * June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
   * June 24 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer
   * July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, painter
   * August 4 - Louis Armstrong Jazz musician
   * September 28 - Ed Sullivan, American TV show host
   * September 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist
   * September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent
     activist
   * 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
   * September 14 - William McKinley US President
   * Abdur Rahman Khan, amir of Afghanistan

Nobel Prizes:

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

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