May 1901 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox.
• 03 May 1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville Florida.
• 08 May 1901 In their long-delayed American League home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4.
• 09 May 1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
• 12 May 1901 President McKinley visits San Francisco.
• 16 May 1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Priory School
• 23 May 1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent.
• 24 May 1901 Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
• 28 May 1901 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2.
• 30 May 1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated

Famous Birthday

• Gary Cooper

  American actor who became a major star after his 1941 appearance in "Sergeant York.

• Philippe Parès
• Jean Thibaud (physicist)
• Madame Billy
• Albert Decaris

  French artist, engraver, painter and aquarellist.

• Max Euwe

  Dutch champion chess player, world champ 1937.

• Henri Sauguet

  French musician, composer and critic.

• André Stibio
• Gino Cervi

  Italian actor of both stage and screen.

• Heinz Roemheld

  American pianist composer and conductor (d. 1985).

• Frankie Trumbauer
• Marcel Poot

  Belgian composer, music theorist and Conservatory Director in Brussels 1949-66.

• Carlo Bronne
• Vladimir Sofronitsky
• Suzanne Lilar

  Belgian author and playwright (d. 1992).

• Luis Monti

  Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (d. 1983).

• Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Actress.

• Maurice J Tobin

  56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953).

• JD Bernal

  British crystallographer (d. 1971).

• Suzanne Lilar [Verbist]

  France -- Belgian writer (Le burlador).

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Famous Deaths

• Marthinus Wessels Pretorius first President Republic South Africa

  dies at age 81.

• John Jones Ross

  Canadian politician (Born 1831).

• Leopoldo Alas y Urena

  a.

• Gaetano Bresci

  Italian-American assassin of Umberto I of Italy (d. 1901).

• Victor D'Hondt

  Belgian mathematician lawyer and jurist (d. 1901).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Georgia Minstrel Co. - Minstrels: First Part, No. 5
2. Gilmore's Band - Selections from Florodora
3. Harry Macdonough - When the Harvest Days are Over
4. Harry Macdonough - Good-Bye, Dolly Gray
5. George J. Gaskin - Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder