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Months in Year 1901: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 152

Jan 1st - Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies
Jan 1st - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
Jan 8th - NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
Jan 9th - NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
Jan 10th - Oil discovered in Texas
Jan 18th - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
Jan 21st - Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC
Jan 22nd - After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
Jan 24th - 1st games played in baseball's American League
Jan 24th - Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein
Jan 31st - Boer general John Smuts & De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal
Jan 31st - Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
Jan 31st - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup
Feb 2nd - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
Feb 2nd - Queen Victoria's funeral takes place.
Feb 3rd - Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
Feb 5th - Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
Feb 5th - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
Feb 7th - Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Feb 12th - Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
Feb 18th - H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
Feb 18th - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
Feb 20th - 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
Feb 25th - George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC
Feb 25th - US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan
Feb 27th - NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
Mar 2nd - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
Mar 2nd - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
Mar 3rd - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
Mar 4th - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
Mar 4th - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
Mar 4th - Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
Mar 6th - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
Mar 11th - Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
Mar 12th - Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
Mar 14th - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
Mar 15th - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
Mar 17th - Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
Mar 17th - A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
Mar 23rd - Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
Mar 25th - 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
Apr 7th - SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
Apr 15th - 1st British motorized burial
Apr 19th - 5th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6
Apr 19th - James J Caffrey wins Boston marathon (2:29:23.6)
Apr 24th - 1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
Apr 25th - Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run
Apr 25th - New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
Apr 25th - In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
Apr 28th - 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherlands (0)
Apr 28th - Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
Apr 29th - 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
Apr 29th - Anti semitic riot in Budapest
May 1st - Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
May 1st - Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
May 1st - Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
May 3rd - Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
May 8th - In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Phila 12-4
May 9th - Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne
May 9th - Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
May 12th - Pres McKinley visits SF
May 16th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
May 23rd - 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
May 23rd - Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
May 23rd - Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
May 23rd - US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
May 24th - Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
May 28th - 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2
May 28th - Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
May 30th - Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
May 30th - Memorial Day 1st observed in US
Jun 2nd - Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
Jun 9th - NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13
Jun 11th - Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
Jun 14th - 1st golf championship is played
Jun 15th - 7th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA
Jun 17th - The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
Jun 20th - Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
Jun 24th - 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
Jun 24th - Jewish National Fund starts
Jul 2nd - Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
Jul 12th - Cy Young wins his 300th game
Jul 15th - NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
Jul 22nd - Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
Jul 24th - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
Jul 31st - Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
Aug 1st - Burial within SF City limits prohibited
Aug 5th - Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
Aug 6th - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
Aug 9th - 34-35°N/98-99°W open for US colonization
Aug 10th - Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
Aug 12th - Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
Aug 14th - SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
Aug 14th - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
Aug 15th - Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
Aug 20th - Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
Aug 21st - 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
Aug 21st - Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
Aug 22nd - Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
Aug 30th - Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 388

Jan 1st - Christine WI Wittewaall van Stoetwegen, Dutch MP (CDD)
Jan 2nd - Rex O'Malley, London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
Jan 2nd - Robert Marshall, founder (Wilderness Society)
Jan 2nd - Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor (Daphne)
Jan 3rd - Eric Voegelin, Germany, US philosopher (Order & History)
Jan 3rd - Ngo Dinh Diem, pres/dictator of South Vietnam (1955-63)
Jan 4th - C. L. R. James, writer and journalist (d. 1989)
Jan 5th - H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter
Jan 5th - Mario Scelba, premier Italy (1954-55)
Jan 6th - Patrick Aherne, England, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay, Q Planes)
Jan 8th - Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer (L'amour responsable)
Jan 9th - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)
Jan 10th - Pauline Starke, Joplin MO, actress (Dante's Inferno, Dance Magic)
Jan 11th - Andries D Copier, Dutch glass manufacturer (Gildeglass)
Jan 11th - Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
Jan 13th - A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991)
Jan 13th - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
Jan 14th - Bebe Daniels, Scotland, actress (42nd Street, Lonesome Luke)
Jan 14th - Carlos P Romulo, Philippine general/diplomat/jurist
Jan 16th - Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59)
Jan 16th - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
Jan 17th - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer
Jan 17th - Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
Jan 18th - Arie Querido, Dutch social psychiatrist
Jan 18th - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
Jan 21st - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
Jan 22nd - Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Sonata Ritmica)
Jan 23rd - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician
Jan 25th - Eric Brown, architect
Jan 25th - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
Jan 26th - Ervin Major, composer
Jan 27th - Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Jan 27th - Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon)
Jan 29th - Allen B DuMont, inventor (perfected coml practical cathode ray tube)
Jan 30th - Earl of Huntingdon, mural painter
Jan 30th - H E Nossak, writer
Jan 31st - Blaz Arnic, composer
Jan 31st - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
Feb 1st - Clark Gable, Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind)
Feb 2nd - Connie Gilchrist, Bkln NY, actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives)
Feb 2nd - Jascha Heifetz, Vilna Lithuania, US violin virtuoso (Carnegie Hall)
Feb 6th - Ben Lyon, Atlanta GA, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse)
Feb 7th - Bob den Doolaard, [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers)
Feb 8th - Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer
Feb 9th - Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island)
Feb 9th - James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
Feb 11th - Roddy Connolly, Irish politician, son of James Connolly (d. 1980)
Feb 15th - Andre Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist (Assur)
Feb 15th - Christmas Humphreys, Engld, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
Feb 15th - Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Animisme)
Feb 16th - Chester Morris, NYC, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown)
Feb 16th - Wayne King, Savannah Ill, saxophonist/bandleader (Waltz King)
Feb 16th - Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 1971)
Feb 18th - Reginald Sheffield, London England, actor (Second Chance)
Feb 19th - Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, Dutch resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord)
Feb 20th - Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
Feb 20th - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)
Feb 20th - Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
Feb 20th - Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory) [or Dec 20]
Feb 20th - René Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health & Disease)
Feb 22nd - Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
Feb 22nd - Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
Feb 22nd - Stefan Lorant, writer
Feb 23rd - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial)
Feb 23rd - Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
Feb 25th - Federico Ghisi, composer
Feb 25th - [Herbert] Zeppo Marx, NYC, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
Feb 27th - Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
Feb 28th - Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
Feb 28th - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
Mar 2nd - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber-merchant
Mar 4th - Charles H Goren, bridge master (26 US Titles)
Mar 4th - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
Mar 5th - Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby)
Mar 6th - Mark Donskoy, Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother)
Mar 13th - Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
Mar 15th - Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
Mar 15th - J Pat O'Malley, England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
Mar 15th - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
Mar 16th - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
Mar 17th - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
Mar 18th - Piotr Perkowski, composer
Mar 18th - William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970)
Mar 19th - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Min of Justice (Nobel 1954)
Mar 19th - Jo Mielziner, Paris, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
Mar 21st - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
Mar 21st - Richard Leslie Hill, historian
Mar 21st - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
Mar 22nd - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
Mar 23rd - Edmund Rubbra, composer [or May 23]
Mar 23rd - Jan H de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder (Free Netherlands)
Mar 24th - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
Mar 25th - Ed Begley, Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
Mar 27th - Albert Henneberg, composer
Mar 27th - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
Mar 27th - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
Mar 27th - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
Mar 27th - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
Mar 29th - Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet
Mar 29th - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 86 of 86

Jan 1st - Ignatius Donnelly, US attorney/lt-governor (Minnesota), dies at 69
Jan 8th - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
Jan 9th - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
Jan 10th - Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
Jan 11th - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34
Jan 13th - Carlo Angeloni, composer, dies at 66
Jan 14th - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78
Jan 14th - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian, dies at 57
Jan 14th - Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76
Jan 16th - Hiram Revels, dies at 73
Jan 16th - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
Jan 16th - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
Jan 17th - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
Jan 20th - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
Jan 21st - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
Jan 22nd - Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81
Jan 24th - Simon Hassler, composer, dies at 68
Jan 27th - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
Feb 7th - Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
Feb 11th - Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56
Feb 12th - Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
Feb 14th - Edward John Hopkins, composer, dies at 82
Feb 17th - Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer, dies at 38
Feb 21st - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
Feb 25th - Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71
Feb 26th - Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Feb 26th - Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Mar 8th - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
Mar 8th - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
Mar 10th - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38
Mar 13th - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
Mar 17th - Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69
Mar 31st - John Stainer, composer, dies at 60
Apr 1st - Francois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
Apr 3rd - Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies
Apr 11th - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74
Apr 19th - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
Apr 22nd - William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies
Apr 27th - Richard Redhead, composer, dies at 81
May 4th - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
May 13th - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
May 19th - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81
May 30th - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
Jun 2nd - James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies
Jun 2nd - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
Jun 9th - Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist, dies
Jun 10th - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
Jun 16th - Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies
Jun 23rd - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer, dies at 87
Jul 4th - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
Jul 6th - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
Jul 7th - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
Jul 17th - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
Jul 18th - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79
Jul 20th - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
Aug 5th - Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
Aug 11th - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
Aug 12th - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
Aug 15th - Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
Aug 17th - Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61
Aug 18th - Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
Aug 22nd - Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, dies at 83
Aug 25th - Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever
Sep 5th - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
Sep 9th - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
Sep 9th - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
Sep 14th - Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted
Sep 25th - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
Oct 1st - Abdoer-Rahman, emir of Afghanistan, dies
Oct 1st - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir
Oct 10th - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
Oct 19th - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
Oct 23rd - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
Oct 24th - Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82
Oct 29th - Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted
Oct 30th - ... Opperman, South African Boer general (Spy), killed in battle
Oct 30th - U Benson, British lt-col (Magers' fountain), killed in battle
Nov 6th - Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
Nov 6th - Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55
Nov 7th - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies
Nov 11th - Antonio Zamara, composer, dies at 72
Nov 25th - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
Nov 27th - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
Nov 30th - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
Dec 1st - George Lohmann, cricketer (in S Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies
Dec 15th - Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67