Wikipedia: 1901

Events

January 1 - Australia is federated as an independent nation under an act of the British Parliament.
The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm
Baseball (US) : The American and National Leagues agree to peacefully coexist and organise a World Series between their champions, which would be first held in 1903.
Change of US presidency from William McKinley (1897-1901) to Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
- In September, President of the United States William McKinley is shot by [Leon Czolgosz]?, an anarchist, in Buffalo, New York. McKinley? dies eight days later. Theodore Roosevelt takes the Oath of Office.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi recieves the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."

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