1901 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1901?
- January 1, 1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
- February 2, 1901 – Funeral of Queen Victoria.
- February 19, 1901 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
- March 1, 1901 – The Australian Army was formed.
- March 2, 1901 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
- April 25, 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- May 1, 1901 – The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
- May 24, 1901 – Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
- June 11, 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
- September 2, 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair.
- September 6, 1901 – Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- October 24, 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- October 29, 1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
- November 1, 1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- November 8, 1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
- November 13, 1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
- November 27, 1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
- December 3, 1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits”.
- December 12, 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
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