Events in History
Events 101 - 146 of 146
Event of Interest
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
Theodore Roosevelt
- Sep 16 Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
Event of Interest
Sep 16 French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands
Paul Gauguin
- Sep 17 Battle of Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats Major Gough's cavalry
- Sep 17 Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
- 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 in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed
- Oct 2 First Royal Navy submarine launched at Barrow-in-Furness
- Oct 12 Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion" as "The White House"
- Oct 14 Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King" premieres in NYC
- Oct 16 Baron Hayashi of Japan begins negotiations in London to make an alliance with the British and strengthen Japan's position against Russians
- Oct 18 Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights
- Oct 19 Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March" premieres in Liverpool
- Oct 19 Santos-Dumont proves airship manoeuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
- Oct 24 First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
- Oct 25 Joseph Chamberlain, British Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany leads to widespread agitation against the British and breakdown of negotiations for Anglo-German alliance
- Oct 26 First recorded use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
- Oct 27 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes"
- Oct 29 In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- Oct 30 Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lieutenant-Colonel Benson's British unit vs Boers
- Nov 1 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- Nov 4 Clyde Fitch's "Way of the World" premieres in NYC
- Nov 7 A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France's indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896
- Nov 8 Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
- Nov 11 Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres
- Nov 13 The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
- Nov 16 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
Event of Interest
Nov 16 Booker T. Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and Edith Roosevelt, prompting condemnation from the South
Booker T. Washington
Event of Interest
Nov 27 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin
Gerhart Hauptmann
- Nov 27 U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.
- Nov 27 Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain
- Nov 29 East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened
Event of Interest
Dec 2 King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
King C. Gillette
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
Wilhelm Röntgen
Historic Communication
Dec 12 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada
Guglielmo Marconi
- Dec 16 Boer general Kritzinger captured
- Dec 24 Private companies allowed to use the word "postcard" in the US. Previously they were labelled "Private Mailing Cards" and known as "souvenir cards".
- Dec 25 Battle at Tweefontein: British force camped on a hill is surprised by a Boer attack at 2am
- Dec 31 In the first election under their new constitution, Cuba elects a Congress and their first president, Tomas Estrada Palma
Birthdays in History
Birthdays 101 - 192 of 192
- Jun 19 Edward Lambert, British diplomat
- Jun 20 Iri Maruki, Japanese artist (The Hiroshima Panels), born in Hiroshima (d. 1995)
- Jun 22 Willem Jacobus du Plooy Erlank (Eitemal), South African poet and professor in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of Stellenbosch, born in Wolmaransstad, Transvaal
- Jun 23 Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador
- Jun 23 Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish poet, novelist, recognized as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature (A Mind at Peace, The Time Regulation Institute), born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1962)
- Jun 26 Stuart Symington, (Sen-D-Mo)
Willie Sutton
Jun 30 Willie Sutton, American bank robber, born in Brooklyn, New York
Willie Sutton
- Jul 1 Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist
- Jul 5 Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
- Jul 8 Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist
- Jul 9 Barbara Cartland, romance author (Camfield #69)
- Jul 13 Tillie Ehrlich Lewin, leading industrialist (tomato queen)
- Jul 15 Pyke F C Koch, Dutch surrealistic painter (Dolores' Breakfast)
- Jul 17 Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
- Jul 20 Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist
- Jul 25 Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat)
- Jul 31 Jean Debuffet, French painter and sculptor (Landscape with 2 Personages), born in Le Havre, France (d. 1985)
- Aug 3 Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal
- Aug 8 Ernest Lawrence, American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron - Nobel 1939), born in Canton, South Dakota (d. 1958)
- Aug 14 James Pitman, Bath England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller
- Aug 15 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68), born in Penonomé, Coclé, Panama (d. 1988)
- Aug 15 Hans Lorbeer, German writer and politician, born in Lutherstadt, Wittenberg, Germany (d. 1973)
- Aug 15 Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (group theory), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1975)
Salvatore Quasimodo
Aug 20 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, critic and translator (Nobel 1959), born in Modica, Italy (d. 1968)
Salvatore Quasimodo
- Aug 23 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, English journalist and policeman, born in London (d. 1994)
- Aug 23 John Sherman Cooper, American politician and U.S. Ambassador to East Germany, born in Somerset, Kentucky (d. 1991)
- Aug 26 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
- Aug 26 Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier (KVP, 1959-63)
- Aug 26 Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
- Aug 28 Cees Kelk, Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet), born in Amsterdam (d. 1981)
- Aug 30 John Gunther, American author and host (John Gunther's High Road), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1970)
- Aug 30 Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist and longtime executive director of NAACP, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1981)
- Sep 2 Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
- Sep 4 Paul Osborn, playwright (Mornings at 7)
William Lyons
Sep 4 William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars), born in Blackpool, Lancashire (d. 1985)
William Lyons
- 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 16 CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
- Sep 17 Francis Chichester, Barnstaple, Devon, English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
- 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 2nd wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)
- Sep 23 Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, born in Antwerp (d. 1987)
- Sep 23 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984)
- Sep 28 Friedrichs, mathematician
- Sep 28 Ed Sullivan, TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show), born in New York City
Enrico Fermi
Sep 29 Enrico Fermi, Italian-American nuclear physicist, gone fission, fermium (Nobel 1938), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1954)
Enrico Fermi
- Sep 29 Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
- Oct 2 Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot
- Oct 2 [Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle)
- Oct 2 Charles Stark "Doc" Draper, American Scientist and Engineer who headed the team that invented the Apollo Guidance Computer and inertial navigation technology for aircraft, space vehicles, and submarines, born in Windsor, Missouri (d. 1987)
- Oct 4 [Robert] Carroll Nye, American actor (Gone with the Wind), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1974)
- Oct 5 John Alton [Johann Jacob Altmann], American cinematographer, born in Sopron, Austria-Hungary (d. 1996)
- Oct 5 Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam
- Oct 7 Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (1951–54, 1956–58, 1960 and 1962–75), born in Luang Phrabang, Laos (d. 1984)
- Oct 10 Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor
- Oct 13 Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam
- Oct 14 Willem A Wagenaar, journalist/writer (Shanghai)
- Oct 15 Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats)
- Oct 15 Hermann Abs, director (Deutsche Bank)/Hitler's advisor
- Oct 15 Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier
- Oct 19 Arleigh A Burke, Colo, admiral (WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross)
- Oct 21 Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar (Deuteronomium)
- Oct 28 Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979)
André Malraux
Nov 3 André Malraux [Berger], French novelist and art historian (La Condition Humaine), born in Paris, France (d. 1976)
André Malraux
- Nov 3 Leopold III [Filip von Saksen-Coburg], King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951) (d. 1983)
- Nov 4 Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
- Nov 4 Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
- Nov 8 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
- Nov 9 John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist
- Nov 11 Sam Spiegel, producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai)
- Nov 11 F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
- Nov 17 Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU) (Hallstein doctrine)
George Gallup
Nov 18 George Gallup, American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, born in Jefferson, Iowa (d. 1984)
George Gallup
Walt Disney
Dec 5 Walt [Walter Elias] Disney, animator, (Mickey Mouse), producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Co., born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1966)
Walt Disney
- Dec 5 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist who discovered the uncertainty principle (Nobel 1932), born in Würzburg, Germany (d. 1976)
- Dec 5 Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
- Dec 7 A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
- Dec 9 Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
- Dec 9 Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
- Dec 10 F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4)
- Dec 13 John Wijga, painter/illustrator
- Dec 14 Paul I, King of Greece (1947-64)
Margaret Mead
Dec 16 Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Margaret Mead
- Dec 19 Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, American anthropologist and novelist, born in NYC, New York (d. 1963)
- Dec 20 Louis I Kahn, US architect [or Feb 20]
- Dec 20 Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions)
- Dec 21 Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer
- Dec 25 Alice C, English duchess of Gloucester/aunt of Elizabeth II