1901

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 - 1901 - 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906

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Events

• January 1 - Australia is federated as an independent nation under an act of the British Parliament.

• The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm

• Baseball (US) : The American and National Leagues agree to peacefully coexist and organise a World Series between their champions, which would be first held in 1903.

• Change of US presidency from William McKinley (1897-1901) to Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

• • In September, President of the United States William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies eight days later. Theodore Roosevelt takes the Oath of Office.

• December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi recieves the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."

Births

• May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, blues singer.

• May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world champion chess 1935-1937

• October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor

• March 27 - Carl Barks, Donald Duck illustrator

• September 29 - Enrico Fermi, physicist

Deaths

• February 11 - Milan I, king of Serbia.

• Queen Victoria monarch of the United Kingdom

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

• Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff

• Medicine - Emil Adolf von Behring

• Literature - Sully Prudhomme

• Peace - Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy