* 1901 – Peter O ' Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of The record will stand for 20 years.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

His first wife was mathematician Sophie Wertman ( 1901 – 1951 ), with whom he had a son, Peter ( born 1928 ).

The fact that electromagnetic radiation exerts a pressure upon any surface exposed to it was deduced theoretically by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871 and Adolfo Bartoli in 1876, and proven experimentally by Russian physicist Peter Lebedev in 1900 and by Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull in 1901.

* 1901 Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the mercury-vapor lamp.

The five sons were, in order of birth: Henry ( 1826 – 1895 ), Clement ( 1831 – 1901 ), John Mohler ( 1833 – 1917 ), Peter Everst ( 1836 – 1897 ) and Jacob Franklin ( 1844 – 1887 ).

Peter Lougheed was born in Calgary on July 26, 1928, the son of Edgar Donald Lougheed ( 1893 – 1951 ) and Edna Alexandria Bauld ( 1901 – 1972 ).

* August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer ( d. 1901 )

Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE ( 28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901 ) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.

* Peter T. Farrell ( c. 1901 – 1992 ), judge who presided over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton

Precedents for independent MP speakers are former LNP member Peter Slipper who is the current speaker in the hung parliament resulting from the 2010 election ; Frederick Holder who was initially elected for the Free Trade Party at the inaugural 1901 election, serving as an independent while speaker until his death in 1909 ; and in the Senate, Labor's Mal Colston became an independent and Deputy President of the Senate following the 1996 election.

Smithsonian Institution Curator of Aeronautics Peter L. Jakab said that Whitehead's wife and family did not know about his August 1901 flights.

The groundbreaking was held on April 19, 1900, the school moved in May, and the new facility was dedicated on July 1, 1901, by Peter Muldoon, Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago.

* 1901 – Peter Behrens completes his house at the Art Nouveau colony at Darmstadt, Germany.

Piet van de Kamp ( December 26, 1901, Kampen – May 18, 1995, Amsterdam ), known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived most of his life in the United States.

His parents were immigrants from Italy, Peter Mascolo ( 1901 – 2008 ) and Anna Mascolo ( née DeTuccio ) ( 1910 – 2010 ), who were really fortunate to have made it to their 80th wedding anniversary shortly before his father died.

The music for this popular show had been originally written by Walter Slaughter in 1901, with a book by Seymour Hicks ( providing the inspiration for Barrie's Peter Pan ).

* Cecil Headlam, Peter Vischer ( 1901 ).

She decided to publish the book herself, and, on 16 December 1901, the first 250 copies of her privately printed The Tale of Peter Rabbit " was ready for distribution to family and friends ".

Peter Cooper Hewitt ( May 5, 1861 – August 25, 1921 ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp in 1901.

Arthur Peter König ( September 13, 1856, Krefeld – October 26, 1901, Berlin ) devoted his short life to physiological optics.

In 1901, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual.

His father, Judge Charles J. Vallone ( 1901 – 1967 ) of the Queens County Civil Court, encouraged young Peter to broaden his horizons beyond the limited social interactions with other ethnic and religious groups than were encouraged in the pre-Vatican II era.

Margaret died when Dorothy was seven ( in 1901 ), leaving Peter, a Methodist preacher, to raise his daughter alone.

* 1901 Miles M. O ' Brien

* 1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

In 1901, Karl Landsteiner published his discovery of the three main blood groups — A, B, and C ( which he later renamed to O ).

In 1901, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, also known as Mother Mary Alphonsa, O. P., a convert to Catholicism and daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, founded Rosary Hill Home in Sherman Park ( now Thornwood ) for those suffering from incurable cancer.

The word was introduced to Australia by King O ' Malley, an American-born Labor member of the first federal Parliament in 1901 ; it presumably entered New Zealand politics at a similar time.

Alvin O. Lombard of Waterville, Maine was issued a patent in 1901 for the Lombard Steam Log Hauler that resembles a regular railroad steam locomotive with sled steerage on front and crawlers in rear for hauling logs in the Northeastern United States and Canada.

O ' Keeffe attended high school at Sacred Heart Academy in Madison, Wisconsin, as a boarder between 1901 and 1902.

∗ Prof. Charles O. Boyer ( acting president, 1901 – 1903 )

25, composed in 1901, and reaches a peak in the tone poem O věčné touze ( Of the Eternal Longing, op.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Suelli's former neighbors in Fairfield told O ' Dwyer that Suelli, who died before O ' Dwyer investigated, had " always claimed he was present when Whitehead flew in 1901.

* 1901 O. Rocque

Other notable members of the O ' Neill family were Jack, a catcher in the National League ( 1902 – 06 ); Mike, a right-handed pitcher in the NL ( 1901 – 04, 1907 ); and Jim, an infielder with the American League Washington Senators ( 1920, 1923 ).

On February 8, 1901, O ' Connell was appointed the third Bishop of Portland, Maine, by Pope Leo XIII.

TNU was founded in 1901 by Cumberland Presbyterian minister J. O. McClurkan as the " Pentecostal Literary and Bible Training School ".

Palacios was established around 1901, and Port O ' Connor was founded on the bay in 1909.

The most common Virginia surnames to appear during the Irish Census of 1901 / 1911 were :- Kellett, Fitzsimons, Sheridan, Smith, Reilly, Carroll, O ' Reilly, Lynch, Brady, Reynolds, Duffy, Hopkins, Soden, McNamee, Preston.

Loughlin O ' Brien ( 1820 – 1901 ) was a New Zealand politician.

* 28 February-John O ' Sullivan, Fine Gael TD and Senator ( born 1901 ).

Group photograph of all Federal Labour Party MPs elected at the inaugural Australian federal election, 1901 | 1901 election, including Chris Watson, Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes, Frank Tudor, and O ' Malley.

Federal Labour Party MPs elected at the inaugural Australian federal election, 1901 | 1901 election, including Chris Watson, Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes, Frank Tudor, and King O ' Malley.