1901 - What happened in 1901 ?

January 1901

Tuesday 01:

The first official Mummers Parade is held.

Monday 07:

Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.

Thursday 10:

The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

Tuesday 22:

Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.

February 1901

Wednesday 20:

The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.

Monday 25:

J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.

March 1901

Saturday 02:

The U.S. Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.

Wednesday 06:

In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.

Sunday 17:

A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

Monday 25:

At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory.

April 1901

Thursday 25:

New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

May 1901

Wednesday 01:

The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.

Thursday 09:

Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.

Monday 27:

In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.

June 1901

Tuesday 11:

New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.

Monday 24:

First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.

July 1901

Wednesday 24:

O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

August 1901

Tuesday 06:

Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

Wednesday 14:

The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.

Thursday 22:

Cadillac Motor Company founded

September 1901

Monday 02:

Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.

Thursday 05:

The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.

Friday 06:

Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Saturday 07:

The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.

Monday 16:

Alturas, California, incorporated as the only city in Modoc County

October 1901

Tuesday 29:

Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

November 1901

Friday 01:

Sigma Phi Epsilon, a national men's collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.

December 1901

Tuesday 03:

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".

Tuesday 10:

First Nobel Prizes awarded

Thursday 12:

First radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean by Guglielmo Marconi