Events from the year 1901 in the United States.
Incumbents
:William McKinley (R-Ohio) (until September 14)
:Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York) (starting September 14)
:vacant (until March 4)
:Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York) (March 4 â September 14)
:vacant (starting September 14)
State governments
Events
JanuaryâÂÂMarch
- 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 – Alfred Packer is released from prison in Colorado 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.
- February 5
- The HayâÂÂPauncefote Treaty is signed by the United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the Panama Canal to the United States.
- J. P. Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion-dollar business deal.
- In Evansville, Indiana, a fire burns through the business district, causing $175,000 of damage.
- 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 and The National Steel Company merge to form the United States Steel Corporation.
- March 4 – President William McKinley begins his second term; Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as Vice President.
- March 9 – The Olds Motor Co. factory in Lansing, Michigan, burns to the ground; it is reconstructed with the world's first automobile assembly line for production of the Oldsmobile Curved Dash.
AprilâÂÂJune
JulyâÂÂSeptember
- June 22âÂÂJuly 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 1 – The Bureau of Chemistry is established within the United States Department of Agriculture.
- July 24 – Author 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.
- 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.
OctoberâÂÂDecember
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 2
- Lew Landers, film and television director (died 1962)
- 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)
- January 16 – Frank Zamboni, inventor (died 1988)
- January 21 – Marcellus Boss, politician, lawyer, member of Kansas Senate and 5th Civilian Governor of Guam (died 1967)
- February 1
- Howard I. Chapelle, naval architect, museum curator and author (died 1975)
- Clark Gable, actor (died 1960)
- February 8 – Virginius Dabney, teacher, journalist, writer and editor (died 1995)
- February 9 – Brian Donlevy, actor (died 1972)
- February 10
- Stella Adler, actress and teacher (died 1992)
- Anthony Prusinski, politician (died 1950)
- February 22
- Mildred Davis, actress (died 1969)
- Charles Evans Whittaker, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1973)
- March 21 – Carmelita Geraghty, actress (died 1966)
- March 24 – Ub Iwerks, animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor and special effects technician (died 1971)
- March 28 – Jack Weil, entrepreneur (died 2008)
- April 18 – Al Lewis, songwriter (died 1967)
- May 8 – Turkey Stearnes, baseball player (died 1979)
- May 21 – Sam Jaffe, film producer (died 2000)
- June 12 – Arnold Kirkeby, hotelier, art collector, and real estate investor (died 1962)
- July 3 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, modernist composer and folk music arranger (died 1953)
- July 9 – Jester Hairston, actor and composer (died 2000)
- July 10 – Daniel V. Gallery, admiral and author (died 1977)
- July 14
- Lucien Prival, actor (died 1994)
- George Tobias, actor (died 1980)
- July 20 – Heinie Manush, baseball player (died [1971)
- July 21 – Albert Hamilton Gordon, businessman and philanthropist (died 2009)
- 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 5 – Thomas J. Ryan, admiral (died 1970)
- 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)
- August 28 – Babe London, actress and comedian (died 1980)
- September 5 – Florence Eldridge, actress (died 1988)
- September 24 – Gerald Warner Brace, writer, educator, sailor and boat builder (died 1978)
- September 28 – Ed Sullivan, entertainment writer and television host (died 1974)
- October 20 – Adelaide Hall, jazz singer and entertainer (died 1993 in the United Kingdom)
- October 28 – Hilo Hattie, native Hawaiian singer and actress (died 1979)
- November 28 – Walter Havighurst, critic, novelist, literary and social historian (died 1994)
- December 5 – Walt Disney, animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and business magnate (died 1966)
- December 7 – Troy Sanders, film score composer (died 1959)
- 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)
Deaths
- January 6 – James W. Bradbury, United States Senator from Maine from 1847 to 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)
- February 7 – Rowena Granice Steele, first female novelist in California (born 1824)
- February 18 – Anna Gardner, abolitionist (born 1816)
- March 7 – Ruth Alice Armstrong, American social activist (born 1850)
- March 13 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887 (born 1833)
- March 18 – Patrick Donahoe, businessman, publisher of the Boston Catholic newspaper The Pilot (born 1811)
- April 10 – Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, reformer (born 1828)
- April 19 – Alfred Horatio Belo, newswriter and businessman, founder of The Dallas Morning News (born 1839)
- April 26 – Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, educator (born 1819)
- 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 7 – Eva M. Reed, botanist (born ?)
- July 30 – Herbert Baxter Adams, educator and historian (born 1850)
- August 4 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold, author (born 1858)
- August 24 – Clara Maass, nurse (born 1876)
- September 14 – William McKinley, 25th president of the United States from 1897 to 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
Further reading
- . (Covers events May 1898-June 1905)
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