Nineteen-Oh-One

1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar. It was also the first year of the 20th century.

January 7 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.

Queen Victoria of England dies at age 81 and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, formally becomes King Edward VII.

February 6 - First public telephones at railway stations in Paris

March - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

June 12 - Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate.

September 2 - U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.

August 30 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner.

According to Wikipedia many other intersting things happened and interesting people were born in this year.

In 1901 the Edinburgh Methodist Mission moved from Nicolson Square to Central Hall in Tollcross. Despite the original builder going bankrupt, the Hall was duly completed by a second firm which prudently included on the ground floor shops for rent. Source