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May 3: The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville begins. April 25 – New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates. May – Monte Ne health resort opens in the Ozarks. May 3 – The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, begins. May 17 – The U.S. stock market crashes for the first time.
September 6, 1901 – McKinley is shot, in Buffalo, New York. September 14, 1901 – President McKinley dies, Vice President Roosevelt becomes the 26th president [1] 1901 – U.S. Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan; 1901 – Hay–Pauncefote Treaty; 1901 – Louis Armstrong born; 1902 – Drago Doctrine; 1902 – First Rose Bowl game played
1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1901st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 901st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1901, the ...
The Panic of 1901 was the first stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan/James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Events from the year 1901 in the United Kingdom. This year marks the transition from the Victorian to the Edwardian era , with the death of the 81-year-old Queen and the accession of her 59-year-old son .
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Lord Curzon, the British Viceroy of India, convened a group of educational officers at Simla to discuss a reform of the higher education system. Those present were members of the Executive Council, the colonial Director of Public Instruction, the Vice-Chancellors of the universities in Bombay and Madras, and the principals of the Deccan College and the Madras School of Arts, all Britons, and ...
February 7, 1901: Netherlands royal wedding of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry February 22, 1901: The City of Rio de Janeiro sinks as it arrives at San Francisco Bay, drowning 131 on board February 21, 1901: GK Persei nova seen on Earth after 1,533 years