1901 in the United States

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Events from the year 1901 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: William McKinley (R-Ohio) (until September 14), Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York) (starting September 14)
  • Vice President:
    • until March 4: vacant
    • March 4–September 14: Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York)
    • starting September 14: vacant
  • Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: David B. Henderson (R-Iowa)
  • Congress: 56th (until March 4), 57th (starting March 4)

Events[]

January 10: Oil in Texas.
March 4: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 25th U.S. Vice President

January–March[]

  • January 1 – Pentecostalism is born, at a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas.
  • January 3 – Census Commissioner predicts a US population of at least 300 million by 2001
  • January 5 – Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in the United States during the year.
  • January 7 – Alferd Packer is released from prison in the United States after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
  • January 10 – In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • January 22 – The Grand Opera House in Cincinnati, Ohio, is destroyed in a fire.
  • January 28 – Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League.
  • February 4 – Puccini's Tosca makes its U.S. debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.[1]
  • February 20 – The Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time.
  • February 25 – U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and at some time the world's largest producer of steel, is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan.
  • March 2
    • The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
    • The Carnegie Steel Company with the Illinois Steel Company & The National Steel Company merged to form the United States Steel Corporation.
  • March 4 – President William McKinley begins his second term. Theodore Roosevelt sworn in as Vice President of the United States.

April–June[]

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.
  • May 27 – The Edison Storage Battery Company is founded in New Jersey.
  • May 28 – Cherry v. Des Moines Leader is decided in the Iowa Supreme Court, upholding the right to publish critical reviews.
  • June 12 – Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate.

July–September[]

September 6: President McKinley is shot.
September 14: "Teddy" Roosevelt succeeds McKinley as the 26th U.S. President.
  • June 22 to July 31 – The worst heat wave in U.S. history until the 1930s, affecting most areas east of the 100th meridian, is estimated to have killed over 9,500 people.
  • July 24 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving 3 years for embezzlement from the First National Bank in Austin, Texas.
  • August 10 – U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901: Members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers begin a strike against United States Steel Corporation after failing to reach a settlement of their demands, and 14,000 employees walk off of the job.[2][3]
  • September 2 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • September 5 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball) is formed in Chicago.
  • September 6 – American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
  • September 7 – The Boxer Protocol is signed between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance.
  • September 14 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States, upon the death of President William McKinley.
  • September 26 – The body of President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.

October–December[]

  • October 4 – The American yacht Columbia defeats the Irish Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race.
  • October 16 – President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
  • October 23 – Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.
  • October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
  • October 29 – In Amherst, New Hampshire, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • October 29 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
  • November 1 – Sigma Phi Epsilon is founded in Richmond, Virginia.
  • November 15 – The Alpha Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at Longwood University.
  • November 28 – The new state constitution of Alabama requires voters to have passed literacy tests.
  • December 3 – 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."

Undated[]

  • The Intercollegiate Prohibition Association is established in Chicago.
  • Force (cereal) first produced.

Ongoing[]

Births[]

  • January 2 – Bob Marshall, wilderness activist, founder of The Wilderness Society (died 1939)
  • January 3 – Henrietta Bingham, journalist, newspaper executive, horse-breeder and anglophile (died 1968)
  • January 4 – Raoul Berger, Ukrainian-born attorney and law professor (died 2000)
  • January 9 – Chic Young, cartoonist (died 1973)
  • February 1
    • Howard I. Chapelle, naval architect, museum curator, and author (died 1975)
    • Clark Gable, actor (died 1960)[4]
  • February 8 – Virginius Dabney, teacher, journalist, writer and editor (died 1995)
  • February 9 – Brian Donlevy, actor (died 1972)
  • March 24 – Ub Iwerks, animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor and special effects technician (died 1971)
  • May 8 – Turkey Stearnes, baseball player (died 1979)[5]
  • July 3 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, modernist composer and folk music arranger (died 1953)
  • July 14 – George Tobias, actor (died 1980)
  • July 22 – Pancho Barnes, pioneer aviator (died 1975)
  • July 30 – John A. Carroll, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1957 to 1963 (died 1983)
  • August 3 – John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1947 to 1989 (died 1995)
  • August 4 – Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter (died 1971)
  • August 8 – Ernest Lawrence, nuclear physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 (died 1958)
  • August 23 – John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1946-1949, 1952-1955 and 1956-1973 (died 1991)
  • September 28 – Ed Sullivan, entertainment writer and television host (died 1974)
  • December 5 – Walt Disney, animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and business magnate (died 1966)[6]
  • December 12 – Fred Barker, criminal member of the Barker-Karpis gang, son of Ma Barker (killed 1935)
  • December 16 – Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (died 1978)[7]

Deaths[]

  • January 6 – James W. Bradbury, United States Senator from Maine from 1847 till 1853. (born 1802)
  • January 16
    • Murray Hall, born Mary Anderson, bail bondsman and politician (born 1841 in Scotland)
    • Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African American senator (born 1827)
  • January 21 – Elisha Gray, inventor and co-founder of Western Electric Manufacturing Company (born 1835)
  • January 29 – Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (born 1822)
  • March 13 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from 1889 till 1893 and United States Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887. (born 1833)
  • April 19 – Alfred Horatio Belo, newswriter and businessman, founder of The Dallas Morning News (born 1839)
  • June 2 – James A. Herne, playwright and actor (born 1839)
  • July 4 –
    • John Fiske, historian and philosopher (born 1842)
    • Julian Scott, artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient (born 1846)
  • July 30 – Herbert Baxter Adams, educator and historian (born 1850)
  • August 4 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold, author (born 1858)
  • September 14 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States from 1897 till 1901. (born 1843)
  • October 10 – Lorenzo Snow, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1814)
  • October 21 – James A. Walker, Confederate general and US Congressman (born 1832)
  • October 29 – Leon Czolgosz, Assassin of President William McKinley (born 1873)
  • November 8 – Mary Ann Bickerdyke, nurse and hospital administrator for Union soldiers (born 1817)
  • November 26 – John Denny, buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1846)
  • November 27 – Clement Studebaker, automobile manufacturer (born 1831)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 24. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
  2. ^ "Order out for All to Strike". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1901-08-07. p. 1.
  3. ^ "Strike Order Is in Full Effect". Chicago Sunday Tribune. 1901-08-11. p. 1.
  4. ^ Views & Reviews. Views & Rewiews Productions. 1971. p. 4.
  5. ^ Johnson, Beatrice (7 October 2020). "Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (1901-1979) •". blackpast.org. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  6. ^ Ryan, James Gilbert; Schlup, Leonard C. (26 March 2015). Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-317-46865-3.
  7. ^ "Margaret Mead | Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

Further reading[]

  • "Domestic Chronology", Statistician and Economist, San Francisco: Louis P. McCarty, 1905, pp. 227–347 – via HathiTrust. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905)

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