1901 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1901?
- January 10, 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- January 22, 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, 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.
- March 1, 1901 – The Australian Army was formed.
- 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.
- 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 14, 1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- August 28, 1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
- 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 14, 1901 – President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 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 24, 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- October 29, 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 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.
- December 12, 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
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