The funeral of Queen Victoria is held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year old schoolteacher from Bay City, Michigan, became the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and to survive
Two automobile manufacturers, Alexander Winton of Cleveland and Henry Ford of Detroit, competed against each other at a track in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in a race that would set the future of American automobiles
Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by John McArthur, Jr., is completed, the world’s tallest occupied masonry building
U.S. General Smith orders Philippine civilian massacre
The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville
Gillette patents a disposable razor blade system
In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas
Wireless radio is received from 1,700 miles away
Registration opened for the Oklahoma Territory land lottery at 9 in the morning on July 10th
The Acousticon, the first battery-powered hearing aid, is patented
Santos-Dumont wins the 100,000 francs Deutsch Prize