1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1901st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 90
January 22: King Edward VII ascends the British throne.
March 6: Wilhelm II, German Emperor, survives an assassination attempt.
September 6: US President William McKinley is shot and fatally wounded.
The 20th century began on 1 January 1901, and ended on 31 December 2000. It was the 10th and last century in the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented
1901
…Julian calendar, the 1901st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 901st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1901, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in…
Earthrise, taken on 24 December 1968 by the American astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 space mission. It is the first photograph taken of Earth from lunar orbit.
Dutch colonial officer with Papuans in the Baliem Valley, Dutch New Guinea, 1958
The mushroom cloud of the detonation of Little Boy, the first nuclear attack in history, on 6 August 1945 over Hiroshima, igniting the nuclear age with the international security dominating thread of mutual assured destruction in the latter half of the 20th century.
Martin Luther King Jr., an African American civil rights movement leader (Washington, August 1963)