August 1901 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
• 05 Aug 1901 Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11 3/4 ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
• 06 Aug 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• 10 Aug 1901 Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners.
• 12 Aug 1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
• 14 Aug 1901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70
• 15 Aug 1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro.
• 20 Aug 1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
• 21 Aug 1901 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright
• 22 Aug 1901 Cadillac Co forms
• 28 Aug 1901 Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
• 30 Aug 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner

Famous Birthday

• Louis Armstrong

  American jazz trumpeter, a raspy voiced singer and band leader who was known as the great "Satchmo" for Satchelmouth, the size of his mouth.

• Salvatore Quasimodo

  Italian writer, a poet and translator who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1959.

• Jean Guitton

  French philosopher and theologian.

• Alexander Alexeieff
• Claude Autant-Lara

  French director, active in cinema from age 16 designing sets and costumes.

• Lucienne Boyer

  French popular singer and formerly model, daughter of a fireman.

• Charles Farrell

  Cape Cod, Massachusetts -- Actor (Vern-My Little Margie).

• Mary Odette
• Maxwell Taylor

  American military, a graduate from West Point Academy in 1922 and rising to the ranks of General.

• Jimmy Rushing

  American singer and bandleader (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (d. 1972).

• Henri Tomasi
• René Capitant

  La Tronche Politician.

• James Pitman

  Bath, England -- Educator / publisher / phonetic speller.

• Kjeld Abell

  Danish playwright / director (Tivoli).

• Gen Maxwell D Taylor

  Former US Army Chief of Staff.

• John C Stennis

  (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88).

• Paul Henry Lang

  Budapest, Hungary -- Critic / musicologist (NY Herald Tribune).

• Cecil Rolph Hewitt

  Journalist / policeman.

• Juan Carlos Paz

  Composer.

• Cornelis J Kelk

  Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet).

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Famous Deaths

• Richard Kleinmichel

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Gunnar Wennerberg

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Clara Maass

  Army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever.

• Francesco Crispi

  Italian Minister of War / Premier, dies at about 82.

• Karl Weinhold

  Germany -- Sociologist, dies at 77.

• Adolf Erik Nordenskiold

  Finnish-born Swedish explorer (Born 1832).

• Edmond Audran

  French musician, the composer of more than 30 operettas including "La Mascotte," 1880 and "La Poupee," 1896.

• Victoria

  British royal family, the Queen of England by the age of 18.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Mina Hickman - When I Think of You
2. Byron G. Harlan - Hello Central, Give Me Heaven
3. Harry Macdonough - When You Were Sweet Sixteen
4. J.W. Myers - In the Shade of the Palm
5. Harry Macdonough & S. H. Dudley - Sweet Annie Moore