January 9 –
Lord Kitchener reports that
Christiaan de Wet has shot one of the "peace" envoys, and flogged two more, who had gone to his commando to ask the Burgher citizens of South Africa to halt fighting.[1]
A 7.2
MwBlack Sea earthquake occurs off the northeast coast of Bulgaria, with a maximum intensity of X (Extreme). A destructive tsunami affects the
province of Dobrich.
The
United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever level.
Paris sees its first
Picassos as the young Spanish artist exhibits his work at Ambroise Vollard's gallery for the first time.[5]
English Association Football Club
Brighton & Hove Albion is formed by John Jackson to replace the amateur Brighton and Hove Rangers, following a meeting at the Seven Stars Hotel on Ship Street,
Brighton.[7]
November 13 –
1901 Caister lifeboat disaster: a life-boat capsizes on service on the east coast of England during a great storm; nine of the twelve crew on board are killed. This gives ride to the lifeboatmen's motto "Never turn back."
December 22 – Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in
Liverpool, says about the war in
South Africa: "Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth — the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps." A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house.[12]
Date unknown
The
okapi is observed for the first time by Europeans (previously known only to African natives).
The date of Friday December 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 Thursday January 1 00:00:00 1970. For the same reason, many computers 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 Friday December 13 20:45:52 1901. In this way, the year 1900 is to the
Year 2000 problem as the year 1901 is to the
Year 2038 problem.
^Garside, Juliette (June 19, 2012).
"Walgreens: a short history". The Guardian. London.
Archived from the original on July 4, 2020. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^Paul T Hellmann (2006). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. p. 1988.
ISBN9781135948580.
^Dahl, Hans Fredrik (January 27, 2023).
Gulbrand Lunde (in Norwegian). Retrieved November 15, 2023.
^Spetich, Joan; Cameron, Douglas E. (1987). "Nina Karlovna Bari". In Grinstein, Louise S.; Campbell, Paul J. (eds.). Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press. p. 6.
ISBN978-0-3132-4849-8.
January 9 –
Lord Kitchener reports that
Christiaan de Wet has shot one of the "peace" envoys, and flogged two more, who had gone to his commando to ask the Burgher citizens of South Africa to halt fighting.[1]
A 7.2
MwBlack Sea earthquake occurs off the northeast coast of Bulgaria, with a maximum intensity of X (Extreme). A destructive tsunami affects the
province of Dobrich.
The
United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever level.
Paris sees its first
Picassos as the young Spanish artist exhibits his work at Ambroise Vollard's gallery for the first time.[5]
English Association Football Club
Brighton & Hove Albion is formed by John Jackson to replace the amateur Brighton and Hove Rangers, following a meeting at the Seven Stars Hotel on Ship Street,
Brighton.[7]
November 13 –
1901 Caister lifeboat disaster: a life-boat capsizes on service on the east coast of England during a great storm; nine of the twelve crew on board are killed. This gives ride to the lifeboatmen's motto "Never turn back."
December 22 – Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in
Liverpool, says about the war in
South Africa: "Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth — the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps." A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house.[12]
Date unknown
The
okapi is observed for the first time by Europeans (previously known only to African natives).
The date of Friday December 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 Thursday January 1 00:00:00 1970. For the same reason, many computers 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 Friday December 13 20:45:52 1901. In this way, the year 1900 is to the
Year 2000 problem as the year 1901 is to the
Year 2038 problem.
^Garside, Juliette (June 19, 2012).
"Walgreens: a short history". The Guardian. London.
Archived from the original on July 4, 2020. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^Paul T Hellmann (2006). Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. p. 1988.
ISBN9781135948580.
^Dahl, Hans Fredrik (January 27, 2023).
Gulbrand Lunde (in Norwegian). Retrieved November 15, 2023.
^Spetich, Joan; Cameron, Douglas E. (1987). "Nina Karlovna Bari". In Grinstein, Louise S.; Campbell, Paul J. (eds.). Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press. p. 6.
ISBN978-0-3132-4849-8.