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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

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
• 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.

 

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, a coup d'etat

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
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.
Sweet Briar College		Military ranks Women's college.liberal arts	Private women's liberal arts college in Virginia, USA
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			Australian Foreign Affairs department
Monsanto		Commercial	Chemical weapon and GMO corporation
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
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	Royalty British royal family
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 "Lone nut"	Killed for the assassination of William McKinley
John Swinton	12 December 1830	15 December 1901		Journalist Editor

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Charles Murret	1901	US New Orleans	1964	Bookmaker Boxer
Ngo Dinh Diem	3 January 1901	French Indochina Quảng Bình	2 November 1963	Politician	The 1st President of South Vietnam, assassinated by the CIA.
Whitney North Seymour	4 January 1901		21 May 1983	Lawyer	Chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1958-70
Fulgencio Batista	16 January 1901	Cuba Banes	6 August 1973		President of Cuba
Jacques Segard	24 January 1901		1983	Industrialist	"A leading French industrialist" who attended Bilderberg/1963.
Egbert de Vries	29 January 1901		20 September 1994	Banker Agriculturist	Dutch agronomist and banker who worked for the World Bank in the 1950s. 1959 Bilderberg.
Cecil King	20 February 1901	United Kingdom Hertfordshire Poynters Hall Totteridge UK	17 April 1987	Media executive
Ralph Assheton	24 February 1901		1984	Politician	Lord Clitheroe, Chairman of the Conservative Party in the 1940s, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
Andrew Cordier	1 March 1901	US Ohio Canton	11 July 1975	Diplomat	UN official who facilitated the coup against Patrice Lumumba. Bilderberg/1962. Later President of Columbia University.
George Parr	1 March 1901		1 April 1975	Politician Lyndon Johnson/Body count
Heinrich Troeger	4 March 1901	Germany Zeitz	28 August 1975	Central banker	German politician who attended the first and fourth Bilderbergs, then became Vice President of the Bundesbank
Guy Banister	7 March 1901	US Louisiana Monroe	6 June 1964	Police officer JFK/Assassination/Premature death Private investigator	A US deep state operative involved in the JFK assassination. Suddenly died after he had attracted the attention of investigator Jim Garrison.
George Olmsted	18 March 1901	Iowa Des Moines	8 October 1998	Spook Soldier Deep state operative Businessperson	Military officer, spook and insurance executive.
Hans Harder	23 March 1901	Hamburg	25 April 1969	Lawyer	Hamburg liberal politician
William Jackson	25 March 1901	US Tennessee Belle Meade	28 September 1971	Spook Lawyer	Wall Street lawyer who was Deputy CIA director prior to Allen Dulles
Louis Leprince-Ringuet	27 March 1901	France Alès	23 December 2000	Historian Engineer Physicist	French nuclear physicist and European Movement leader
Dave Springhall	28 March 1901		2 September 1953	Activist	A UK communist activist
Whittaker Chambers	1 April 1901	Pennsylvania Philadelphia	9 July 1961	Author Spook Editor
Chester Bowles	5 April 1901	Massachusetts Springfield	25 May 1986	Diplomat
Adriano Olivetti	11 April 1901		27 February 1960	Businessperson	Italian industrialist possibly murdered by the CIA during a hostile takeover of his revolutionary computer department by General Electric.
Johannes Meynen	13 April 1901		13 February 1980	Politician	Bilderberg Steering committee, Netherlands Defence Minister
René Pleven	15 April 1901	France Brittany Rennes	13 January 1993	Politician	French PM from the early 1950s. Attended the 1963 Bilderberg
Pehr G. V. Gyllenhammar	23 April 1901		22 November 1988	Businessperson	Swedish insurance company executive
Norman Kipping	11 May 1901		29 June 1979	Electrical engineer Businessperson	Director-General of the Federation of British Industries from 1946 to 1965. Attended Bilderberg/1959.
William Haley	24 May 1901	Jersey	6 September 1987	Editor Director-General of the BBC
Sukarno	6 June 1901	Surabaya East Java Dutch East Indies	21 June 1970
Eric Maschwitz	10 June 1901		27 October 1969	Spook Entertainer
Tage Erlander	13 June 1901	Sweden Ransäter Värmland County	21 June 1985	Politician	Swedish PM for 25 years
J. Evetts Haley	5 July 1901	Texas Belton	9 October 1995	Activist
Vehbi Koç	20 July 1901		25 February 1996	Deep state actor Businessperson
George Woods	27 July 1901	United States Boston Massachusetts	20 August 1982	Central banker	Attended the 1966 Bilderberg as President of the World Bank Group
John Stennis	3 August 1901	United States Mississippi Kemper County	23 April 1995	Politician Lawyer
John Sherman Cooper	23 August 1901	Somerset Kentucky	21 February 1991	Diplomat Politician Lawyer	US lawyer who refused to sign the draft of the Warren Commission Report until a qualifying statement was inserted.
Maxwell Taylor	26 August 1901	Missouri Keytesville	19 April 1987
Fritz Berg	27 August 1901	Germany Altena	3 February 1979	Deep state actor Industrialist	President of the Federation of German Industries - "the real government of West Germany" - for over 20 years. 13 Bilderbergs.
Hendrik Verwoerd	8 September 1901		6 September 1966	Politician Editor Professor++++++++++++++++	Verwoerd nicknamed the "father of apartheid"
William Paley	28 September 1901	United States Chicago Illinois	26 October 1990	Businessperson
Hanns Seidel	12 October 1901	Germany Schweinheim	5 August 1961	Politician
Hermann Abs	15 October 1901		5 February 1994	Banker Businessperson	Attended the 1958, 1961 and 1966 Bilderbergs as Chairman of Deutsche Bank.
Arleigh Burke	19 October 1901	United States Colorado Boulder	1 January 1996	Mariner	US admiral, one of the founders of Center for Strategic and International Studies
Walter Hallstein	17 November 1901	Germany Mainz	29 March 1982	Diplomat Academic Lawyer Deep state operative	Taken prisoner by the Americans in June 1944, where he was selected for special training as part of "Project Sunflower", a reeducation plan for possible future decision-makers. Became one of the founding fathers of the European Union. Multi-Bilderberg
George Gallup	18 November 1901	US Iowa Jefferson	26 July 1984	Statistician	Pioneer in the field of polling
Walt Disney	5 December 1901	United States Chicago Illinois	15 December 1966	Producer Animator Voice actor Businessperson
John Moors Cabot	11 December 1901	United States Massachusetts Cambridge	24 February 1981	Diplomat Deep state operative	Cold War diplomat
Margaret Mead	16 December 1901		15 November 1978	Spook Anthropologist	American anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. Close ties to the CIA, including covering up the use of anthropologists as spooks. Husband involved in MK-Ultra program. Later involved in the introduction the agendas "overpopulation" and "global warming".
Ewen Cameron	24 December 1901	Scotland Bridge of Allan Stirlingshire	8 September 1967	Psychiatrist	A controversial psychiatrist who worked on the MKULTRA project

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