Donna Rae De Vane O'Berry
1901-2001
Some of the items of note from the year 1901"
January 10 - In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
January 28 - Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League.
March 2 - The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
April 25 - New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
May 3 - The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL.
May 17 - The U.S. stock market crashes for the first time.
May 27 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
May 28 - Iran (known as Persia until 1935) grants William Knox D'Arcy a concession, giving him the right to prospect for oil.
July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St. John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.
August 5 - Peter O'Connor sets the first International Association of Athletics Federations recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
August 6 - Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.
30 August - Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner.
September 2 - U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
September 6 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
September 26 - The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.
October 2 - The Royal Navy's first submarine is launched at Barrow.
October 24 - Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
December 10 - The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
And some undated facts:
Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive.
William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle.
New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin, one of the most widely-used devices on the planet.
Alzheimer's disease is described for the first time by German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer.
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The date of Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 is significant for modern computers because it is the earliest date representable with a signed 32-bit integer on systems that reference time in seconds since the Unix epoch. This corresponds to -2147483648 seconds from Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970.
For the same reason, many computer storage systems are also unable to represent an earlier date.
For related reasons, many computer systems suffer from the Year 2038 problem. This is when the positive number of seconds since 1970 exceeds 2147483647 (01111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 in binary) and wraps to -2147483648. Hence the computer system erroneously displays or operates on the time Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901.
In this way the year 1900 is to the Year 2000 problem as is the year 1901 to the Year 2038 problem.
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The above information is from Wikipedia