On This Day

Historical Events in March 1901

  • Mar 2 Hawaii's first telegraph company opens
  • Mar 2 United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops
  • Mar 3 US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
  • Mar 4 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer)

President Inaugurated

Mar 4 William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as US president; Theodore Roosevelt serves as Vice President

William McKinley
25th US President William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Mar 4 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends

Historic Event

Mar 6 In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Wilhelm II
German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II
  • Mar 11 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
  • Mar 12 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
  • Mar 13 Amidst increasing anti-gambling sentiment, wagering on horse racing is banned in San Francisco, CA; Ingleside Race Track closes March 15

Music Premiere

Mar 14 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A, Gustav Mahler leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Graz, Austria

Anton Bruckner
Composer Anton Bruckner
  • Mar 14 Germany's Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with Great Britain in October 1900, to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade, does not apply to Manchuria
  • Mar 17 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands

Historic Event

Mar 17 At a show in Paris, 71 Vincent van Gogh's paintings cause a sensation, 11 years after his death

Vincent van Gogh
Painter Vincent van Gogh

Music History

Mar 23 Australian opera star Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast

Nellie Melba
Soprano Nellie Melba
  • Mar 25 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, Iowa
  • Mar 29 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first parliamentary election
  • Mar 29 63rd Grand National: Jockey Arthur Nightingall wins his 3rd GN aboard 9/1 shot Grudon in a howling snowstorm

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