January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death August 3, 1901
The temperature on August 3, 1901 was between 11.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (43%). Source: KNMI
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