December 1901
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The following events occurred in December 1901:
December 1, 1901 (Sunday)
- Died:George Lohmann, English cricketer(a English Cricket) (born 1865)
December 2, 1901 (Monday)
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December 3, 1901 (Tuesday)
- 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 4, 1901 (Wednesday)
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December 5, 1901 (Thursday)
- Born:
- Milton Erickson, American psychiatrist (died 1980)
- Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (died 1966)
- Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
December 6, 1901 (Friday)
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December 7, 1901 (Saturday)
- Born:Troy Sanders, American film score composer (died 1959)
December 8, 1901 (Sunday)
- Born:Arthur Leslie, British actor (died 1970)
December 9, 1901 (Monday)
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December 10, 1901 (Tuesday)
- The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
December 11, 1901 (Wednesday)
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December 12, 1901 (Thursday)
- Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in England to Newfoundland, Canada; it is the letter "S" in Morse.[1]
December 13, 1901 (Friday)
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December 14, 1901 (Saturday)
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December 15, 1901 (Sunday)
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December 16, 1901 (Monday)
- Born:Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (died 1978)
December 17, 1901 (Tuesday)
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December 18, 1901 (Wednesday)
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December 19, 1901 (Thursday)
- Born:Rudolf Hell, German inventor (died 2002)
December 20, 1901 (Friday)
- The final spike is driven into the Mombasa–Victoria–Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.
December 21, 1901 (Saturday)
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December 22, 1901 (Sunday)
- Peace Sunday and 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.[2]
December 23, 1901 (Monday)
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December 24, 1901 (Tuesday)
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December 25, 1901 (Wednesday)
- Born:Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (died 2004)
December 26, 1901 (Thursday)
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December 27, 1901 (Friday)
- Born:Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (died 1992)
December 28, 1901 (Saturday)
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December 29, 1901 (Sunday)
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December 30, 1901 (Monday)
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December 31, 1901 (Tuesday)
- Born:Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (died 1984)
References
- ^ Bussey, Gordon (2000). Marconi's Atlantic Leap. Coventry: Marconi. ISBN 0-9538967-0-6.
- ^ "Women & Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War". White Concentration Camps: Anglo-Boer War: 1900–1902. South African History Online. Retrieved 25 October 2010.