September 1901

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The following events occurred in September 1901:

September 2, 1901 (Monday)

• Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.

September 5, 1901 (Thursday)

• The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
• Died:Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (born 1853)

September 6, 1901 (Friday)

• William McKinley assassination: American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.

September 7, 1901 (Saturday)

• The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

September 9, 1901 (Monday)

• Died:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (born 1864)
• Born:
  • James Blades, English percussionist (died 1999)
  • Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (died 1966)

September 12, 1901 (Thursday)

• Born:
  • Ben Blue, Canadian-born comedian and actor (died 1975)
  • Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-born Israeli agronomist (died 1999)

September 14, 1901 (Saturday)

• Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as President of the United States, upon McKinley's death.
• Died:William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (born 1843)

September 15, 1901 (Sunday)

• Born: Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (died 1985)

September 17, 1901 (Tuesday)

• Born:Sir Francis Chichester, British sailor (died 1972)

September 22, 1901 (Sunday)

• Born:
  • Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1997)
  • Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932)

September 23, 1901 (Monday)

• Born:Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)

September 24, 1901 (Tuesday)

• Born:Gerald Warner Brace, American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder (died 1978)

September 25, 1901 (Wednesday)

• Born:Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (died 1968)

September 26, 1901 (Thursday)

• The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.
• Born:George Raft, American film actor (died 1980)

September 28, 1901 (Saturday)

• Philippine–American War: Balangiga massacre: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty United States soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
• Born:
  • Ed Sullivan, American entertainer (died 1974)
  • William S. Paley, American businessman (CBS) (died 1990)

September 29, 1901 (Sunday)

• Born:
  • Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
  • Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (died 1981)

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