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| 1901 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters has its premiere at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Stanislavsky | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Australia passes an Immigration Restriction Act to underpin the White Australia policy | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Frank Norris publishes The Octopus, the first of a projected trilogy of novels set in Southern California | |
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| 1901 |
| | | President McKinley is assassinated by an anarchist when visiting the Pan-American exhibition in Buffalo | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president on McKinley's death | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The 1901 census reveals that the population of the United Kingdom has almost doubled in 50 years, to 38 million | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Stephen Wheeler is left as the last of the lightermen to use the St Helena Boathouses for coal and freight, and increasingly switches the focus of his business to the trade of boat-hiring. | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits | |
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