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| 1901 |
| January
1st |
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The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia,
Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia were established as
the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton became the first
Prime Minister to take office. |
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| January
1st |
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In
Africa, Nigeria became a British protectorate. |
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| January
22nd |
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Queen
Victoria died which brought the Victorian age to a close. Her
eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales became the
new King, reigning as King Edward VII. |
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| January
27th |
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The famous Italian composer Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
died. |
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| February
20th |
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The legislature of Hawaii, a territory of the United States
of America since 1900, convened for the first time. |
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| April
29th |
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The future Emperor of Japan, Hirohito was born. Emperor Hirohito
was the Japanese leader during and after the Japanese defeat
in WWII. |
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| May
9th |
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Commonwealth of Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne. |
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| June
12th |
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The island of Cuba became a United States protectorate. |
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| August
21st |
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The famous American Cadillac Motor Company was formed in Detroit,
Michigan, USA. |
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| September
2nd |
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Vice
President Theodore Roosevelt uttered the famous phrase, "Speak
softly and carry a big stick" in a speech at the Minnesota
State Fair. |
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| September
6th |
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The
25th President of the United States of America, William McKinley,
was shot by an American anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American
Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The President died eight days
later, on September 14th. |
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| September
7th |
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The Boxer Rebellion in China was officially ended with the signing
of the Boxer Protocol in Peking between the Great Powers and
China. |
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| September
14th |
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Theodore
Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th President of the United States,
after the assassination of President William Mckinley. |
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| September
29th |
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The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was born in Rome. Fermi would
later win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, and also worked
on the secret Manhattan
Project during World War II. |
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| October
29th |
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The assassin of US President William McKinley, Leon Czolgosz,
was executed by electrocution in Auburn prison in Auburn, New
York. |
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| November. |
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US
elections. Theodore Roosevelt was elected as the new President
of the United States of America. |
|
| December
5th |
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Werner
Heisenberg, German physicist who developed 'Quantum Theory'
and the 'Uncertainty Principle' was born. |
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| December
10th |
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Marie Curie received her doctorate. The first Nobel Prize ceremony
was held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's
death. |
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| December
12th |
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Italian
inventor Guglielmo Marconi established the first cross-Atlantic
radio communication. A signal was sent from Cornwall in England,
and was received in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The signal
sent is Morse code for the letter "S." |
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