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 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 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 7, 1901 (Saturday)

• Born:Troy Sanders, American film score composer (died 1959)

December 8, 1901 (Sunday)

• Born:Arthur Leslie, British actor (died 1970)

December 10, 1901 (Tuesday)

• The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

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 16, 1901 (Monday)

• Born:Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (died 1978)

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 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 25, 1901 (Wednesday)

• Born:Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (died 2004)

December 27, 1901 (Friday)

• Born:Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (died 1992)

December 31, 1901 (Tuesday)

• Born:Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (died 1984)

References

1. Bussey, Gordon (2000). Marconi's Atlantic Leap. Coventry: Marconi. ISBN 0-9538967-0-6.
2. "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.