8 events found for 1901
Mozaffar ad-Din (pictured), Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to William Knox
Mozaffar ad-Din, Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to businessman William Knox
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers began an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its…
U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon…
At the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
U.S. president William McKinley was fatally shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,…
With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer…
Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days…