Today in History for September 1901
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 14 of 14
1st - Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
2nd - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
3rd - Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
5th - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
6th - Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
7th - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
12th - Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
16th - Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
17th - Battle at Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry
17th - Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
19th - 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley
26th - Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal
26th - Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
28th - Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 33 of 33
2nd - Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
2nd - Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
3rd - Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor
4th - Paul Osborn, playwright (Mornings at 7)
4th - William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) (d. 1985)
5th - Florence Elridge, Bkln NY, actress (Long Days Journey into the Night)
5th - Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer
6th - John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas
8th - Hendrik F Verwoerd, premier South Africa (1958-66) (assassinated)
12th - Ben Blue, Montreal, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show)
12th - Ernst Pepping, German composer
12th - Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
13th - Philip Dorn, Scheveningen Netherlands, actor (I Remember Mama)
15th - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
16th - Andree Joly Bunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
16th - CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
17th - Francis Charles Chinester, yachtsman/aviator
17th - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
18th - Harold Clurman, producer/director (Deadline at Dawn)
19th - Joseph Pasternak, film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy)
20th - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer
21st - Adele Bochner
22nd - Allan "Rocky" Lane, Mishawaka Ind, actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder)
22nd - Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher
23rd - Adrian Pitlo, lawyer
23rd - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984)
25th - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
26th - Donald Cook, Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady)
28th - Friedrichs, mathematician
28th - Lily Bouwmeester, Dutch actress/comedienne (Pygmalion)
28th - William Samuel Paley, Chicago Ill, pres/CEO of CBS (1928-90)
29th - Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938)
29th - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
5th - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
9th - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
9th - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
14th - Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted
25th - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
