September 1901 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1901 Construction begins on New York Stock Exchange
• 02 Sep 1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, Speak softly & carry a big stick
• 03 Sep 1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
• 05 Sep 1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed.
• 06 Sep 1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• 07 Sep 1901 Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
• 12 Sep 1901 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine.
• 14 Sep 1901 US President William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier.
• 17 Sep 1901 Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
• 19 Sep 1901 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley
• 24 Sep 1901 Theodore Roosevelt inaugeration as President of the USA.
• 26 Sep 1901 Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal
• 30 Sep 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.

Famous Birthday

• Robert Bresson

  French film director of 14 films in 40 years; he left a reputation as one of cinema's most austere artists.

• Lanza del Vasto
• Enrico Fermi

  Italian-American physicist who, with Leo Szilard, discovered uranium fission.

• Ed Sullivan

  TV host ( Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73.

• Léon Lasson

  French astrologer and author of "Astrologie mondiale : Quinze ans de paix sur l'Europe," 1938.

• Hendrik Verwoerd

  Dutch-South African politician, the Prime Minister of South Africa 1950-58.

• Harare (Zimbabwe)
• Ramón Serrano Súñer

  Ramón Serrano Súñer was a Spanish politician during the first stages of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, the Spanish State, between...

• Lily Bouwmeester

  Dutch theatre and film actress, who was crowned with a Golden Calf for being "the best actress in Pre-War Dutch cinema.

• Milly Mathis
• Joe Pasternak

  Hungarian-American production manager and producer (d. 1991).

• James Blades

  British musician, a percussionist; and radio and film sounds effects man.

• Louis Joxe

  Bourg la Reine Politician.

• Joseph Pasternak film producer (Anchors Aweigh

  Date With Judy).

• Sir Donald Bailey

  British engineer (d. 1985).

• CFH "Freddie" Gough

  British Major Scout (WWII, Arnhem).

• Paul Osborn

  playwright (Mornings at 7).

• William Samuel Paley

  Chicago, Illinois -- President / CEO of CBS (1928-90).

• Ernst Pepping

  German composer.

• Mieczyslaw Kolinski

  Composer.

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Famous Deaths

• Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller

  Minister of Cologne dies.

• Ignacij Klemencic

  Slovenian physicist (Born 1853).

• President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6

  and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  French painter and illustrator (d. 1901).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Emilio DeGogorza - In the Shade of the Palm
2. Cal Stewart - Uncle Josh's Huskin' Bee Dance
3. Silas Leachman - I'm Living Easy
4. Harry Macdonough - In the Shade of the Palm
5. Len Spencer - Con Clancy's Christening