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File:Mcckinley roosevelt.png US President William McKinley is assassinated, leaving the position to "man of the hour" Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
Year 1901

Events

• February 25 – U.S. Steel is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan, as the first billion-dollar corporation.
• March 2 – The United States Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
• March 4 – William McKinley is sworn in, for a second term as President of the United States.
• May 9 – The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne.
• May 28 – D'Arcy Concession: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar of Persia grants British businessman William Knox D'Arcy a concession giving him an exclusive right to prospect for oil.
• June 12 – Cuba becomes a United States protectorate.
• June 18 – Emily Hobhouse reports on the high mortality and cruel conditions in the Second Boer War concentration camps
• July 1 – The first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau is established at Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London, by Edward Henry.
• September 2 – U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick", at the Minnesota State Fair.
• September 6 – William McKinley assassination: American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
• September 7 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends, with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• September 14 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26^th President of the United States, upon President William McKinley's death. Roosevelt is sworn in that afternoon.
• October 29 – Leon Czolgosz is executed for assassinating William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6.
• November 28 – The new Constitution of Alabama requires voters in the state to have passed literacy tests.
• December 3 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives, asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
• December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm, on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
• December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England, to Newfoundland; it is the letter "S" in Morse code.
• December 22 – Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in Liverpool, says about the war in South Africa: "Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth — the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps." A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house.