...Date... AGE Event
1901/--/-- -1 - A 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in Russia.
1901/--/-- -1 - A stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi is discovered in Susa, Iran.
1901/--/-- -1 - American surgeon Walter Reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- -1 - An American League of baseball is formed in competition to the National League.
1901/--/-- -1 - Andrew Carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- -1 - Britain incorporates Ashanti territory into the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1901/--/-- -1 - English author Beatrix Potter publishes her children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
1901/--/-- -1 - Guglielmo Marconi tests radio transmissions between England and Newfoundland.
1901/--/-- -1 - King C. Gillette founds the American Safety Razor Company.
1901/--/-- -1 - Pres. McKinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- -1 - President McKinley is assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1901/--/-- -1 - Queen Victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son Edward VII.
1901/--/-- -1 - Russia occupies Manchuria in north-east China.
1901/--/-- -1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff writes his Second Piano Concerto.
1901/--/-- -1 - Sir Edward Elgar composes the first of his five Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
1901/--/-- -1 - Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's Blue Period begins.
1901/--/-- -1 - Temperance advocate Carry Nation uses a hatchet to attack a Kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- -1 - The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.
1901/--/-- -1 - The first U.S. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- -1 - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1901/--/-- -1 - Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th U.S. president.
1901/--/-- -1 - Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs help found the American Socialist party.
1901/01/02 -1 - Edward VII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1901/03/31 -1 *** Parmley, Rachel (Upchurch) [Mother] & Upchurch, William Fox [Father] - Married
1901/12/25 0 *** Upchurch, Felix - Born to Upchurch, William Fox and Parmley, Rachel (Upchurch)
1902/--/-- 0 - American artist Robert Henri paints the New York street scene West 57th Street.
1902/--/-- 0 - Conan Doyle writes the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 0 - English author Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
1902/--/-- 0 - French filmmaker Georges Melies produces A Trip to the Moon.
1902/--/-- 0 - Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 0 - Maksim Gorky's The Lower Depths is produced at the Moscow Art Theater.
1902/--/-- 0 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1902/--/-- 0 - Roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 0 - The Photo-Secession group is founded in New York by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 0 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the South African War.
1902/08/-- 0 - Edward VII crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India at Wes
1903/--/-- 1 - Alexander, King of Serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by Peter I.
1903/--/-- 1 - American author Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild.
1903/--/-- 1 - American novelist Henry James publishes The Ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 1 - Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman is produced in London.
1903/--/-- 1 - Colonel Francis Younghusband leads a British military expedition into Tibet.
1903/--/-- 1 - Edwin S. Porter directs the pioneering Western film The Great Train Robbery.
1903/--/-- 1 - Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
1903/--/-- 1 - Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 1 - Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 1 - Panama declares its independence from Columbia; the U.S. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 1 - The Rolls-Royce automobile company is founded in Britain.
1903/--/-- 1 - The U.S. acquires perpetual control over the Panama Canal Zone.
1903/--/-- 1 - The first World Series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 1 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin organizes the Bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 1 - Wright Bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 1 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (3) AL BOSTON (5)
1904/--/-- 2 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 2 - Ivan Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the Nobel Prize.
1904/--/-- 2 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan is produced in London.
1904/--/-- 2 - Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
1904/--/-- 2 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America
1904/--/-- 2 - Russia and Japan at war
1904/--/-- 2 - Russian author Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 2 - Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
1904/--/-- 2 - The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin.
1904/--/-- 2 - The New York City subway is opened.
1904/12/05 2 *** Grider, Golda (Thrasher) [2nd cousin] - Born to Grider, George W. and Duvall, Myrtle "Myrtie" (Grider)
1905/--/-- 3 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 3 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- 3 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 3 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- 3 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- 3 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- 3 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- 3 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 3 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- 3 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- 3 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 3 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 3 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 3 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 3 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- 3 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- 3 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- 3 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- 3 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/01/26 3 *** Upchurch, Felix - Died
1905/03/04 3 *** Pierce, Ann Eliza (Grider) [Great Aunt] - Died Albany cem. Albany KY
1905/10/-- 3 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
In 1901 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Balloon
In 1901 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1901 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1901 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1901 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1901 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
By 1905 War Making was by:
TNT
in addition.
In 1901 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:33