February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
Day of death January 4, 1901
The temperature on January 4, 1901 was between -9.0 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -6.5 °C. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
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.
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