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The British batsman C.B. Fry hits a record six consecutive centuries in first-class cricket
Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses
The Austrian biochemist Karl Landsteiner discovers that human blood is of varying types
The first of Edward Elgar's five Pomp and Circumstance marches has a trio section that becomes "Land of Hope and Glory"
Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gives him renewed confidence after the disaster of his First Symphony in 1897
The Leyborne-Pophams start selling off the market gardens and then the farm buildings of East Sheen and West Hall for housing and cemeteries and sewage works
The Texas oil industry is launched with the disovery of the 75,000-barrel-a-day Lucas Gusher near Beaumont
Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow
Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters has its premiere at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Stanislavsky
Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland
Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic
Australia passes an Immigration Restriction Act to underpin the White Australia policy
Frank Norris publishes The Octopus, the first of a projected trilogy of novels set in Southern California
President McKinley is assassinated by an anarchist when visiting the Pan-American exhibition in Buffalo
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president on McKinley's death
The 1901 census reveals that the population of the United Kingdom has almost doubled in 50 years, to 38 million
Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits
After opposition to the development, the Marble Hill estate is bought for £70,000 by funds from local authorities and individuals. The property is held by the London County Council, subsequently the Greater London Council.
Edith Wharton's publishes her first full-length novel, The Valley of Decision
Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow
Venezuela defaults on European interest payments and is soon threatened by British, German and Italian warships
Rudyard Kipling publishes his Just So Stories for Little Children
US philosopher William James publishes his influential book The Varieties of Religious Experience
The road outside Garrick's Villa is widened for the coming of the trams and the house is bought by London United Tramways. General Manager Clifton Robinson occupies the villa
