January 1901 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1901 Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• 08 Jan 1901 New South Wales score 918 all out versus South Australia in 560 minutes.
• 09 Jan 1901 New South Wales (918) defeat South Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605.
• 10 Jan 1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• 18 Jan 1901 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re.
• 22 Jan 1901 After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series.
• 24 Jan 1901 Emily Hobhouse views Lord Kitchener's concentration camp at Bloemfontein.
• 31 Jan 1901 Boer General John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal.

Famous Birthday

• Bebe Daniels

  American actress, awarded the highest U.S.

• Sulamith Wülfing
• Fulgencio Batista

  Cuban military man who served as the dictator of his country from 1940-1944.

• René Sarvil
• Cassandre (painter)
• Edmond Vandercammen

  Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at age 79.

• Willy Fritsch

  German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.

• Daniel-Rops
• Marianne Oswald

  French TV personality, an actress and comedienne as well as a producer.

• Kurt Jooss

  German dancer and choreographer, a teacher and ballet director.

• Pierre Bost
• Herman Closson
• Robert Koernig

  German homicide; the perpetrator of sex murders 1929-1937, arrested 10/04/1937 and executed eights months later.

• Mildred Dunnock

  Dies at 87.

• Eric Brown

  architect.

• Willy Fritsch German actor (Spies

  Women in the Moon).

• Ervin Major

  composer.

• Eric Voegelin in Cologne

  Germany; philosopher of history, professor in USA.

• Hans-Erich Apostel

  Austrian composer (Sonata Ritmica).

• Arie Querido

  Dutch social psychiatrist.

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Famous Deaths

• Hiram Revels

  first African-American to serve in the U. S. Senate (Born 1822).

• Richard Copley Christie

  English scholar (Born 1830).

• Queen Victoria

  of the United Kingdom (Born 1819).

• Ignatius Donnelly US attorney/Lieutenant-Governor (Minnesota)

  dies at age 69.

• Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov composer

  dies at age 34.

• Carlo Angeloni composer

  dies at age 66.

• Mandell Creighton English bishop/historian

  dies at age 57.

• Charles Hermite French mathematician (e is transcendent)

  dies at age 78.

• Victor Balaguer Catalaans historian/politician/author

  dies at age 76.

• Jacob G Agarah Swedish algologist

  dies at age 87.

• Simon Hassler composer

  dies at age 68.

• Sir James Dickson

  Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (Born 1832).

• Bishop Mandell Creighton

  English historian and ecclesiastic (Born 1843).

• Arnold Bocklin

  Swiss painter (Born 1827).

• King Milan

  I of Serbia (Born 1855).

• Zenobe Gramme

  Belgian inventor, constructed machine for production of alternating current in 1867; made direct current condenser 1869.

• Vasily Kalinnikov

  Russian bassoon player and composer (d. 1901).

• Nikolaos Gyzis

  Greek painter and academic (d. 1901).

• Jules Barbier

  French poet and playwright (d. 1901).

• Elisha Gray

  American businessman co-founded Western Electric (d. 1901).

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