1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar. It was also the first year of the 20th century. [h=2][edit] Events[/h] [h=3][edit] January[/h] January 1: Commonwealth of Australia forms as British colonies federate. January 1 The world celebrates the beginning of the 20th century. The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister. Nigeria becomes a British protectorate. The birth of Pentecostalism at a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas. January 5 – Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in the USA during the year. January 7 – Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism. January 10 – In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. January 22 – After reigning for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch, Queen Victoria dies at the age of 81. Her eldest son, The Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as King Edward VII until 1910. His son, Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall. January 28 – Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League. January 22: King Edward VII ascends the British throne and becomes Emperor of India. [h=3][edit] February[/h] February 2 – Funeral of Queen Victoria in London. February 5 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty signed by United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the Panama Canal to the United States J Pierpont Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion dollar business deal February 6 – First public telephones at railway stations in Paris February 11 – Anti Jesuit riots sweep across Spain February 12 – India Viceroy Lord Curzon creates new frontier province in the north of the Punjab, bordering Afghanistan February 14 – King Edward VII opens his first parliament February 15 – The Alianza Lima Foundation is created in Peru. February 20 – The Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time. February 22 – Pacific mail steamer sinks in Golden Gate Harbor, killing 128 February 23 – United Kingdom and Germany agree the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland February 26 Chi-hsui and Hsu-cheng-yu, Boxer Rebellion leaders, executed in Peking Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa as Boers continue to demand autonomy February 27 – The Sultan of Turkey orders 50,000 troops to the Bulgarian frontier because of unrest in Macedonia [h=3][edit] March[/h] March 1 – United Kingdom, Germany and Japan protest at Sino-Russian agreement on Manchuria. March 2 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. March 4 – United States President William McKinley begins his 2nd term. Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as Vice President of the United States. March 5 – Irish nationalist demonstrators ejected by police from House of Commons of the United Kingdom in London. March 6 – In Bremen, an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany March 11 – United Kingdom rejects amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty. March 17 A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation. Student riots in St Petersburg and Moscow. March 31 – The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken. March 6: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany survives assassination attempt. [h=3][edit] April[/h] April 25 – New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates. April 29 – Anti-Jewish rioting breaks out in Budapest. [h=3][edit] May[/h] May 3 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL. May 5 – The Caste War of Yucatán officially ends, although Mayan skirmishers continue sporadic fighting for another decade. May 9 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne. May 17 – The U.S. stock market crashes. May 24 – 78 miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales. May 25 – The Club Atlético River Plate is founded in Argentina. May 27 – In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded. May 28 – Iran (known as Persia until 1935) grants William Knox D'Arcy a concession, giving him the right to prospect for oil. [h=3][edit] June[/h] June 2 – Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan. June 12 – Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate. June 12: Cuba becomes a United States protectorate. [h=3][edit] July[/h] July 1 – Bureau of Chemistry within Department of Agriculture. July 4 – The 1,282 foot (390 m) 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 Columbus, Ohio after serving 3 years for embezzlement from the First National Bank in Austin, Texas. [h=3][edit] August[/h] Silliman University is the first American private school in the Philippines. August 5 – Peter O'Connor sets the first International Association of Athletics Federations recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years. August 6 – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica. August 28 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.[SUP][1][/SUP] August 30 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner. [h=3][edit] September[/h] September 7: The Boxer Rebellion in China ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol. September 14: Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States on the death of William McKinley. September 2 – U.S. 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 U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later. September 7 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. September 14 – Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as President of the United States. September 26 – The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick. [h=3][edit] October[/h] October 2 – The Royal Navy's first submarine is launched at Barrow. October 4 – The American yacht Columbia defeats the Irish Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race. October 16 – U.S. 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. Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. [h=3][edit] November[/h] November 1 – Sigma Phi Epsilon is founded in Richmond, VA. November 9 – Prince George, Duke of Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. 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. [h=3][edit] December[/h] December 3 – U.S. 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". December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in England to Newfoundland, Canada; it is the letter "S" in Morse.[SUP][2][/SUP] December 20 – The final spike is driven into the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya. [h=3][edit] Date unknown[/h] Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive. Europium is isolated by Eugène-Anatole Demarçay. William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle. The okapi is observed for the first time (previously known only to local natives). The Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatán surrender to Mexico. The Intercollegiate Prohibition Association is established in Chicago. Shō Tai (Shang Tai), the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in modern Okinawa, Japan, dies. New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin, one of the most widely used devices on the planet. The first reliable census in India is taken. Alzheimer's disease is described for the first time by German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer. [h=2][edit] Births[/h] [h=3][edit] January–February[/h] January 1 – Julia Bathory, Hungarian glass designer (d. 2000) January 3 – Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam (d. 1963) January 4 – CLR James, Trinidad-born writer and journalist (d. 1989) January 9 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973) January 11 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988) January 13 A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991) Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978) January 14 Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971) Alfred Tarski, Polish logician and mathematician (d. 1983) January 16 Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973) Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988) January 20 – Mohammed Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (d. 1984) January 21 – Marcellus Boss, American politician and lawyer, member of Kansas Senate and 5th Civilian Governor of Guam (d. 1967) January 24 Hans Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (d. 1972) Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995) January 26 – Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988) January 27 – Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988) January 29 – E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989) January 30 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959) February 1 Frank Buckles, last surviving American veteran of World War I (d. 2011) Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960) February 2 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987) February 8 – Virginius Dabney, American teacher, journalist, writer and editor (d. 1995) February 10 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992) February 15 – João Branco Núncio, Portuguese bullfighter (d. 1976) February 22 – Mildred Davis, American actress (d. 1969) February 25 – Zeppo Marx, American comedian (d. 1979) February 27 – Horatio Luro, Argentine horse trainer (d. 1991) February 28 – Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (d. 1994) [h=3][edit] March–April[/h] March 3 – Claude Choules, British WWI veteran and last combat veteran from any nation (d. 2011) March 4 Charles Goren, American bridge player (d. 1991) Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet (d. 1937) March 17 – Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970) March 21 Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958) Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (d. 1966) March 22 – Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991) March 24 – Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971) March 27 Carl Barks, American cartoonist (d. 2000) Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963) Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975) Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971) March 28 – Jack Weil, American entrepreneur (d. 2008) April 1 – Whittaker Chambers, American spy (d. 1961) April 15 – Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1978) April 18 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967) April 29 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989) April 30 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) [h=3][edit] May–June[/h] May 7 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961) May 17 – Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983) May 18 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978) May 20 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981) May 21 Manfred Aschner, German-born Israeli microbiologist and entomologist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1989). Horace Heidt, American bandleader (d. 1986) Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
Well, depending on the condition, it's worth a minimum of $2.00. Please post some inhanced-quality photographs. -Brian
Try and find yourself a digital camera. Ask your parents if you can borrow one. The macro setting (the little flower) is the one you want to use. Can you read the word "LIBERTY" on the headress?
I can't believe the sincerity of this board. If you want a favor, ricky, make it easy for us to do it for you. Put some time and effort and take a real picture of the coin in question. We are all for helping you, just put in an honest attempt.
I'm not being a jerk, I'm trying to be helpful. How did you learn? I know how I learned. I learned by asking questions, reading, and doing a little research. I started collecting around his age and I made due of my resources, and I didn't even have the internet. Seems like all he is doing is posting pictures and having others do the legwork.
