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 ( 1900s: )  1901    | |
|---|---|
 US President William McKinley is assassinated, leaving the position to "man of the hour" Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| Year 1901 |
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Events
- February 25 – U.S. Steel is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan, as the first billion-dollar corporation.
- March 2 – The United States Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
- March 4 – William McKinley is sworn in, for a second term as President of the United States.
- May 9 – The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne.
- May 28 – D'Arcy Concession: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar of Persia grants British businessman William Knox D'Arcy a concession giving him an exclusive right to prospect for oil.
- June 12 – Cuba becomes a United States protectorate.
- June 18 – Emily Hobhouse reports on the high mortality and cruel conditions in the Second Boer War concentration camps[1]
- July 1 – The first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau is established at Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London, by Edward Henry.
- September 2 – U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick", at the Minnesota State Fair.
- September 6 – William McKinley assassination: American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
- September 7 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends, with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- September 14 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States, upon President William McKinley's death. Roosevelt is sworn in that afternoon.
- October 29 – Leon Czolgosz is executed for assassinating William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6.
- November 28 – The new Constitution of Alabama requires voters in the state to have passed literacy tests.
- December 3 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives, asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
- December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm, on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
- December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England, to Newfoundland; it is the letter "S" in Morse code.
- December 22 – Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in Liverpool, says about the war in South Africa: "Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth — the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps." A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house.[2]
Events
| Event | Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 | |
| Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 | |
| Dreyfus Affair | November 1894 | 1906 | |
| William McKinley/Assassination | 11 September 1901 | 14 September 1901 | The Assassination of William McKinley |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Round Table |  | Dutch Round Table, a gathering every six weeks of important people in politics, business and the civil service | |
| Teva |  | Israeli drug company | |
| Milner's Kindergarten |  | British administrators, front organisation for Milner's Society of the Elect | |
| Rockefeller University |  | Part of a system created by Rockefeller money to buy control over American medical life. | |
| Golden Gate University |  | Military ranks Non-profit | YMCA roots; Courses in law, business, taxation, and accounting. |
| Jewish National Fund |  | ||
| Australia/Department/Foreign Affairs and Trade | _logo.png){kind=logo} | Australian Foreign Affairs department | |
| Monsanto |  | Commercial | Chemical weapon and GMO corporation |
| Australian Labor Party |  | One of the two major parties in Australian politics |
Deaths
| Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandrina Victoria | 24 May 1819 | 22 January 1901 | Osborne House Isle of Wight | ||
| Benjamin Harrison | 20 August 1833 | 13 March 1901 | United States Indianapolis Indiana | Politician Lawyer | |
| William McKinley | 29 January 1843 | 14 September 1901 | New York United States Buffalo | Politician Lawyer | US President assassinated in 1901 |
| Leon Czolgosz | 5 May 1873 | 29 October 1901 | Journalist | ||
| John Swinton | 12 December 1830 | 15 December 1901 | Journalist Editor |
Births
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110607091953/http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/governance/mainframe-womencamp.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110607091953/http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/governance/mainframe-womencamp.htm%7Carchive-date=June 7, 2011
