“Colorado Cannibal” Alferd Packer is paroled
The confessed Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer is released from prison on parole after serving 18 years. One of the ragged legions of gold and silver prospectors who combed the Rocky…
This Year in History:
1901
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
The confessed Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer is released from prison on parole after serving 18 years. One of the ragged legions of gold and silver prospectors who combed the Rocky…
On January 10, 1901, a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produces an enormous gusher of crude oil, coating the landscape for hundreds of feet and signaling the…
The death of Queen Victoria on January 22, 1901, ends an era in which most of her British subjects know no other monarch. Her 63‑year reign saw the growth of…
On January 28, 1901, professional baseball’s American League is founded in Milwaukee. The league plans for a 140‑game schedule, 14‑man rosters and a players’ union. Franchises are in Baltimore (Orioles), Boston…
On March 15, 1901, paintings by the late Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are shown at the Bernheim‑Jeune gallery in Paris in what was the artist’s first retrospective exhibit. The…
On May 21, 1901, Connecticut becomes the first state to pass a law regulating motor vehicles, limiting their speed to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads.…
William Sydney Porter, otherwise known as O. Henry, is released from prison on this day, after serving three years in jail for embezzlement from a bank in Austin, Texas. To…
On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan‑American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28‑year‑old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two…
U.S. President William McKinley dies on September 14, 1901, eight days after being shot by a deranged anarchist during the Pan‑American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley won his first…
On September 28, 1901, Ed Sullivan, who will become the host of the long‑running TV variety program The Ed Sullivan Show, is born in New York City. During the peak…
On October 24, 1901, a 63‑year‑old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to successfully take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. After her husband died…
On October 29, 1901, President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is executed in the electric chair at Auburn Prison in New York. Czolgosz had shot McKinley on September 6, 1901;…
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace on December 10, 1901. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary…
Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth would…