The Year 1901
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January 1 - The Commonwealth of Australia is created.
January 10 - The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop near Beaumont was tapped, beginning the Texas Oil Industry.
January 22 - Queen Victoria of England dies at age 81. She had reigned for 64 years.
September 6 - President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo NY by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
September 14 - President McKinley dies. Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as President of the United States.
October 30 - The Dallas Public Library opened.
December 5 - Walter Elias Disney was born.
Other Notable occurrences in 1901
The first electric typewriter was introduced - The Blickensderfer
"Up from
Slavery" The Autobiography of Booker T. Washington was published.
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