WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1901
Find out what all happened May to December 1901

In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt asks Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". (3. December 1901)

In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. (29. October 1901)

The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. (7. September 1901)

President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. (14. September 1901)

Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (6. September 1901)

Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia. (1. November 1901)

The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York. (1. May 1901)

Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. (12. December 1901)

Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island. (28. September 1901)

Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales. (24. May 1901)

Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne. (9. May 1901)

O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. (24. July 1901)

Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. (29. October 1901)

The first Nobel Prizes are awarded. (10. December 1901)

The Australian Labour Party is established. (8. May 1901)

The U.S. Army War College is established. (27. November 1901)

The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. (14. August 1901)

The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins. (10. August 1901)

President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. (12. October 1901)

The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT. (17. June 1901)