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| 1901 |
| | | A change of palette by Pablo Picasso takes him into what becomes known as his Blue Period | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The British batsman C.B. Fry hits a record six consecutive centuries in first-class cricket | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The Austrian biochemist Karl Landsteiner discovers that human blood is of varying types | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The first of Edward Elgar's five Pomp and Circumstance marches has a trio section that becomes "Land of Hope and Glory" | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gives him renewed confidence after the disaster of his First Symphony in 1897 | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The Texas oil industry is launched with the disovery of the 75,000-barrel-a-day Lucas Gusher near Beaumont | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow | |
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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 |
| | | Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Edith Wharton's publishes her first full-length novel, The Valley of Decision | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Venezuela defaults on European interest payments and is soon threatened by British, German and Italian warships | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling publishes his Just So Stories for Little Children | |
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| 1902 |
| | | US philosopher William James publishes his influential book The Varieties of Religious Experience | |
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| 1902 |
| | | In his pamphlet What is to be done? Lenin argues for early action to promote revolution | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Helen Keller's The Story of My Life begins publication in serial form | |
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| 1902 |
| | | French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice | |
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| 1902 |
| | | North Carolina pharmacist Caleb Bradham launches the Pepsi-Cola company in a back room of his shop | |
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| 1902 |
| | | A.E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The US Congress makes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 permanent, without the need for ten-year renewals | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Cuba becomes independent after three years of US military rule, with certain restrictions imposed by the Platt Amendment of 1901 | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling moves to Bateman's in Sussex, his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1902 |
| | | A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control | |
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