In history, year 1901 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1901.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 10 january | The first great gusher of the Texas Oil Boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, US. |
| 25 february | U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once theworld's largest producer of steel, was incorporated by industrialist J.P. Morgan. |
| 11 june | The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands were first settled in the 6th century by Polynesian people who migrated from Tahiti, an island 1154 km to the northeast of Cook Islands. |
| 10 august | The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workersorganized an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its decliningfortunes and organize large numbers of new members. |
| 28 august | Silliman University in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines,became the first American private school to be founded in the country. |
| 02 september | U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first uttered the famousphrase 'speak softly and carry a big stick' at theMinnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiatingpeacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force. |
| 03 september | The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with theCommonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atopthe Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. |
| 06 september | U.S. President William McKinley was fatally wounded byanarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NewYork. |
| 07 september | With Peking occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-NationAlliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequaltreaty ending the Boxer Rebellion. |
| 14 september | William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States is assassinated by Leon Czolgosz when he is shot at point blank range. |
| 14 september | Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after William McKinleywas fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York. |
| 28 september | Philippine–American War-Filipino guerrillas killed more thanforty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga onSamar Island. |
| 24 october | Anna Edson, a schoolteacher, rides over the Niagara Falls safely in the first successful barrel ride. |
| 10 december | The first Nobel Prizes were awarded, on the anniversary of the 1896 death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel. |
| 12 december | Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radiosignal, from Poldhu Wireless Station in Cornwall, England, to SignalHill in St. John's, Newfoundland. |
| 14 June | Golf competition was organized for the first time. |
| 14 September | US President William McKenzie was shot and killed in the United States. |
| 12 October | US President Theodore Roosevelt changed the name of Rashtrapati Bhavan from Executive Manson to the White House. |
| 18 November | The famous Indian film director V. Shantaram was born. |
| 12 December | G. Marconi first sent a radio message to Atlantic. The dialogue took place from Cornwall in England to Newfoundland in Canada. |
| 14 December | Mahatma Gandhi reached Rajkot via Porbandar. |
| 22 January | Queen Victoria of Britain died at the age of 82. |
| 16 February | India's famous nationalist, social reformer, scholar and jurist Mahadev Govind Ranade died. |
| 02 March | The world's first wireless telegraph company opened in Hawaii. |
| 10 January | The Grand Opera House located in the city of Cincinnati was destroyed by fire. |
| 12 February | Viceroy of India Lord Curzon built the new North-West Frontier Province in Punjab near the border of Afghanistan. |
| 01 March | The Census of India was the fourth and first reliable census of the British Raj. |
| 25 April | New York Automobile became the first US state to have license plates. |
| 09 May | The first Australian Parliament opened in Melbourne. |
| 02 June | Katsura Taro became Prime Minister of Japan. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 July | Irna Phillips / Writer / United States of America |
| 03 July | Ruth Crawford Seeger / Composer / United States of America |
| 05 December | Milton H. Erickson / Author / United States of America |
| 05 December | Walt Disney / Writer / United States of America |
| 08 May | Turkey Stearnes / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 08 September | Hendrik Verwoerd / Politician / Netherlands |
| 09 January | Chic Young / Cartoonist / United States of America |
| 11 October | Masanobu Tsuji / Politician / Japan |
| 12 September | Shmuel Horowitz / Academic / Israel |
| 13 June | Tage Erlander / Politician / Sweden |
| 13 July | Eric Portman / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 15 April | René Pleven / Politician / France |
| 16 January | Fulgencio Batista / Politician / Cuba |
| 18 January | Ivan Petrovsky / Academic / Russia |
| 19 December | Rudolf Hell / Engineer / Germany |
| 20 December | Robert J. Van de Graaff / Academic / United States of America |
| 22 May | Maurice J. Tobin / Politician / United States of America |
| 22 November | Joaquín Rodrigo / Pianist / Spain |
| 23 April | E. B. Ford / Biologist / United Kingdom |
| 24 December | Sid Miller / Writer / Australia |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 June | G. Shankar Kurup / Teacher / India |
| 25 April | Ajay Kumar Mukherjee / Politician / India |
| 18 November | V. Shantaram / Actor / India |
| 16 March | Prahlad Balacharya Gajendragadka / Lawyer / India |
| 23 November | Nabakrushna Choudhuri / Politician / India |
| 03 June | G. Sankara Kurup / Poet / India |
| 06 July | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee / Lawyer / India |
| 15 April | Ajoy Mukherjee / Politician / India |
| 23 March | Bon Maharaja / Writer / India |
| NA NA | Partap Singh Kairon / Politician / India |
| 20 February | Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili / Politician / India |
| 29 June | Amal Kumar Sarkar / Lawyer / India |