Wednesday, August 17, 2011

1901

Events from the first year of the twentieth century: the world celebrates the start of the new century; President McKinley is assassinated in Buffalo, New York; the Cadillac Motor Company is formed in Detroit; the first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm; Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal; oil is discovered in Texas.
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