August 1901

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The following events occurred in August 1901:

August 1, 1901 (Thursday)

• Born:Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (died 1925)

August 4, 1901 (Sunday)

• Born:Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (died 1971)

August 5, 1901 (Monday)

• Peter O'Connor sets the first International Association of Athletics Federations recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
• Died:Victoria, Empress of Germany (born 1840)

August 6, 1901 (Tuesday)

• Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.

August 8, 1901 (Thursday)

• Born:Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)

August 10, 1901 (Saturday)

• Born:Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist (died 2001)

August 12, 1901 (Monday)

• Died:Francesco Crispi, Italian Prime Minister (born 1819)

August 14, 1901 (Wednesday)

• The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• Born:Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (died 1998)

August 18, 1901 (Sunday)

• Born:
  • Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
  • Jean Guitton, French writer and philosopher (died 1999)

August 19, 1901 (Monday)

• Died:Shō Tai, last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Japan (born 1843)

August 20, 1901 (Tuesday)

• Born:Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)

August 21, 1901 (Wednesday)

• The International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres is founded in Copenhagen.
• Died:Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (born 1829)

August 24, 1901 (Saturday)

• Died:Clara Maass, American nurse (born 1876)

August 26, 1901 (Monday)

• Born:
  • Maxwell Taylor, American general (died 1987)
  • Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (died 1972)

August 28, 1901 (Wednesday)

• Silliman University is founded in the Philippines, the first American private school in the country^[1]
• Born:Babe London, American actress and comedian (died 1980)

August 30, 1901 (Friday)

• Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom.
• Born:John Gunther, American writer (died 1970)

References

1. "NHI Resolution No.7, Series 2002". National Historical Institute. Retrieved 2010-03-30.