January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
Day of death September 4, 1917
The temperature on September 4, 1917 was between 5.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
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