September 1901 in History

Events in History

Sep 2 Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly & carry a big stick"

Sep 3 Boer General Jan Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony

Sep 6 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

Sep 7 Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
Sep 12 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
Sep 14 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo
Sep 16 Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.

Sep 16 French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands

Sep 17 Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Jan Smuts destroys British 17th Lancers unit

Sep 17 Battle of Blood River Port: Boer commandos led by Louis Botha defeat a British Mounted Infantry force commanded by Major Hubert Gough

Sep 26 Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in Natal
Sep 26 Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana)
Sep 28 Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers at breakfast in Balangiga ,Philippines, 44 killed; the abandoned town is burned in retalliation

Sep 2 Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
Sep 4 Paul Osborn, American playwright (Mornings at 7), born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 1988)

Sep 4 British industrialist and automobile manufacturer (Jaguar cars), born in Blackpool, Lancashire

Sep 6 John Erik Jonsson, American businessman and Mayor of Dallas, born in NYC, New York (d. 1995)
Sep 8 Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister (1958-66) who was assassinated in 1966, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1966)
Sep 15 Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
Sep 17 Francis Chichester, English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), born in Barnstaple, Devon, England (d. 1972)
Sep 22 Charles Huggins, American-Canadian physician and cancer researcher (1966 Nobel Prize), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1997)
Sep 22 Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Russian woman who was the 2nd wife of Joseph Stalin, born in Baku, Russian Empire (d. 1932)
Sep 23 Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, born in Antwerp (d. 1987)
Sep 23 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1984), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986) [1]
Sep 28 Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-American mathematician, and educator (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire (d. 1982)

Sep 29 Italian-American nuclear physicist, gone fission, fermium (Nobel Prize 1938), born in Rome, Italy

Sep 5 Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
Sep 8 Johannes von Miquel, German politician (Vice President Kingdom of Prussia 1897-1901), dies at 73
Sep 9 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and printmaker (At the Moulin Rouge), dies from the effects of alcoholism and syphilis at 36
Sep 9 Willem van Goltstein van Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies dies at 70