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Events
- January 1 - World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new
century. (Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900
rejected worldwide.
- January 1 - The six colonies that make up Australia are federated as under an
act of the British Parliament, though full independence is a gradual process (see
Australian Constitutional
History).
- January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
- January 7 - Alferd
Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism
- January 10 - The first great Texas
gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in
Beaumont, Texas
- January 22 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. His own
son Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke
of Cornwall and Rothesay.
- February 20 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- February 25 - J.P.
Morgan incorporates the United States
Steel 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 6 - In Bremen an assassin
attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
- March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death,
creates a sensation.
- April 25 - New York state becomes
the first to require automobile license plates.
- May 9 - Australia opens its first
parliament in Melbourne.
- May 27 - In New Jersey, the
Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
- June 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens.
- July 4 The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at
Hartland, New Brunswick,
Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.
- July 24 - O. Henry is released from
prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues
(later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in
Chicago, Illinois.
- September 6 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,
New York. McKinley dies there eight days later.
- September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the
Peking Protocol.
- September 14 - With the death of William McKinley, Theodore
Roosevelt succeeds him as President of
the United States
- October 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- October 29 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
- November 9 - Prince George, Duke of
Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
- December 3 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking
Congress curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
- December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
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Births
- January 3 - Ngo Dinh
Diem, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
- January 16 - Frank
Zamboni, inventor; most famous for the Zamboni machine (d. 1988)
- January 26 - Stuart Symington, politician (d. 1988)
- January 27 - Willy Fritsch, actor (d. 1973)
- January 29 - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer
- January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
- January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (d. 1959)
- January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz,
writer (d. 1974)
- February 1 - Clark
Gable, American actor
- February 2 - Jascha
Heifetz, musician (d. 1987)
- February 10 - Stella Adler, acting teacher (d. 1992)
- February 16 - Wayne King, band leader ("The Waltz King")
- February 25 - Zeppo
Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (d. 1979)
- February 27 - Horatio
Luro, Hall of Fame horse trainer (d. 1991)
- February 28 - Linus
Pauling, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1954 and Peace 1962; only person to win two Nobel Prizes outright (d. 1994)
- March 4 - Charles Goren,
bridge expert
- March 11 - Leopold III of Belgium
- March 21 - Karl Arnold,
politician (d. 1958)
- March 24 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist (d. 1971)
- March 27 - Carl Barks,
Donald Duck illustrator
- March 27 - Erich
Ollenhauer, politician (d. 1963)
- April 1 - Whittaker
Chambers, spy (d. 1961)
- April 29 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989)
- May 5 - Blind Willie
McTell, blues singer.
- May 7 - Gary Cooper, actor (d.
1961)
- May 17 - Werner Egk, composer (d. 1983)
- May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world
champion chess 1935-1937
- May 21 - Horace Heidt, band leader (d. 1986)
- May 21 - Sam Jaffe, producer (d. 2000)
- June 17 - F. F.
E. Yeo-Thomas, WW II SOE agent and hero (d. 1964)
- June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
- June 24 - Harry Partch,
microtonal composer
- July 20 - Heinie Manush,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1971)
- July 31 - Jean Dubuffet,
painter
- August 4 - Louis
Armstrong, jazz musician (d. 1971)
- September 9 - James
Blades, English percussionist
- September 28 - Ed
Sullivan, American TV show host
- September 29 - Enrico
Fermi, Italian physicist
- September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist
- October 2 - Kiki,
singer
- October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor
- November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, composer (d. 1999)
- December 5 - Walter Elias Disney, later known as Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966)
- December 5 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist
- December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
- December 19 - Rudolf
Hell, inventor
- December 25- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of
Gloucester
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, later second
wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin.
Deaths
- January 22 - Queen
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and
Empress of India dies, after the longest ever reign by a British
monarch.
- January 27 - Giuseppe
Verdi, Italian grand opera composer
- February 11 - Milan I, king
of Serbia.
- February 22 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician
- March 13 - Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President of the United
States
- April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario
- June 2 - George
Leslie Mackay, missionary
- July 4 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist
- August 5 - The Empress Frederick, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of German Emperor Wilhelm II
- September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
- September 14 - William McKinley US President
- Abdur Rahman Khan, amir of Afghanistan
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