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| 1901 |
| | Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland | |
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| 1901 |
| | Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic | |
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| 1901 |
| | Australia passes an Immigration Restriction Act to underpin the White Australia policy | |
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| 1901 |
| | Frank Norris publishes The Octopus, the first of a projected trilogy of novels set in Southern California | |
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| 1901 |
| | President McKinley is assassinated by an anarchist when visiting the Pan-American exhibition in Buffalo | |
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| 1901 |
| | Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president on McKinley's death | |
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| 1901 |
| | The 1901 census reveals that the population of the United Kingdom has almost doubled in 50 years, to 38 million | |
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| 1901 |
| | Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits | |
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| 1902 |
| | Edith Wharton's publishes her first full-length novel, The Valley of Decision | |
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| 1902 |
| | Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow | |
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