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Historical Event(s)
– Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
– J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
– The Australian Army was formed.
– The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
– Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
– Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
– President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
– Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
– The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
– Frank Buckles, last surviving American veteran of World War I (d. 2011)
– Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945)
– Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
– Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
– Guy Bush, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
– Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
– Arthur Liebehenschel, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1948)
– Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)