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1901 is an important year because it has many new inventions that would change the country big time. One of which is the vacuum cleaner, a couple months after it is invented they are on a production line headed all over the country. Many important political events also happened such as President McKinley being shot and also the Nobel Prize was created. The Victorian Era ends when Queen Victoria dies.

• The Lucas gusher blew on January 10 marking the introduction of Texas oil.
• Queen Victoria dies on January 22.
• Leon Czolgosz, a Polish American anarchist shot President McKinley point blank, on September 6.
• President William McKinley dies on September 14 from gangrene at the age of 58. Theodore Roosevelt steps in as President at the age of 42, becoming the youngest President in America's history.
• On October 24, Annie Taylor is the first to travel over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• On December 12 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first telegraphic signal across the Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland, Canada from England.
• The Nobel Prize was first given in 1901. Alfred B. Nobel left money in his will for the creation of the award. In 1901 awards were given in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace. 
• Baseball's American League was organized in 1901 by teams whose annual pennant winner will compete beginning in 1903 with the National League in the World Series.
• The Mercedes car is introduced by a German auto maker Gottlieb Daimler
• Secretary of War Elihu Root at Washington, D.C. founds the US Army War College.
• New York's Carnegie Mansion  is completed on Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street for Andrew Carnegie. 
• New York's Harlem begins its rise following the start of construction of a Lenox Avenue subway line that begins a real estate boom.
• U.S. Steel Co. is created by J. P. Morgan, who underwrites a successful public offering of stock in the world's first $1 billion corporation.
• The first electric vacuum cleaner is invented.
• Andrew Carnegie gives the New York Public Library $5.2 million.
• Booker T. Washington writes Up From Slavery and becomes the first African American to be invited to the White House.

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