LIFE 1901
Historical Highlights from 1901 :
- President McKinley is fatally shot. Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as his successor.
- The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- Baseball’s American League declares itself a Major League.
- J. P. Morgan’s purchase of US mines marks the first billion dollar business deal.
- Abraham Lincoln’s body is exhumed and re-interred in concrete several feet thick.
- Alferd Packer is released from prison in the United States after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
- New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
- The U.S. stock market crashes for the first time.
- Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
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