1901

1st Nobel Prizes
President McKinley assassinated - Theodore Roosevelt succeeded the Presidency
Anna Edson Taylor goes safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel
Actors in New York City arrested for wearing costumes on a Sunday
Rudyard Kipling's book Kim
Marconi demonstrates telegraphic radio
1st Mercedes automobile
1st popularly priced auto in the US introduced - the curved-dash Oldsmobile
Electric typewriter invented
1st frankfurter served on a bun (it won't be called a "hot dog" until 1906)
Birth of Ragtime jazz
Walt Disney, Enrico Fermi and Clark Gable born
Queen Victoria of England, Toulouse-Lautrec and G. Verdi die