October 1901
The following events occurred in October 1901:
October 1, 1901 (Tuesday)
- Died:Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (born 1844)
October 2, 1901 (Wednesday)
- The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness.
- Born:Alice Prin, French singer (died 1953)
October 4, 1901 (Friday)
- The American yacht Columbia defeats the British Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race.
October 10, 1901 (Thursday)
- Born:Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (died 1966)
- Died:Lorenzo Snow, Mormon leader (born 1814)
October 15, 1901 (Tuesday)
- Died:Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (born 1849)
October 16, 1901 (Wednesday)
- U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
October 19, 1901 (Saturday)
- Died:Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (born 1829)
October 20, 1901 (Sunday)
- Born:Adelaide Hall, American jazz singer and entertainer born in Brooklyn, New York (died 1993)
October 23, 1901 (Wednesday)
- Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.
- Died:Georg von Siemens, German banker (born 1839)
October 24, 1901 (Thursday)
- Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
- Born:
- Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (died 1959)
- Moultrie Kelsall, Scottish film and television actor (died 1980)
October 28, 1901 (Monday)
- Born:Hilo Hattie, Native Hawaiian singer and actress (died 1979)
October 29, 1901 (Tuesday)
- In Amherst, New York, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- Died:Leon Czolgosz, Polish-American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (born 1873)
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