1901 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1901?
- January 22, 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
- 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 20, 1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- February 25, 1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
- May 9, 1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
- June 11, 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
- June 17, 1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
- July 24, 1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- August 5, 1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft The record will stand for 20 years.
- August 6, 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
- August 14, 1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- September 7, 1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- September 28, 1901 – Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
- October 29, 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- November 1, 1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- November 13, 1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
- 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 10, 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- December 12, 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
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