page_title: February 1901
section_title: February 25, 1901 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: February 1901 / February 25, 1901 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Full-length group portrait of Jack Johnson, African American pugilist, standing behind pugilist Joe Choynski in front of a light-colored backdrop in a room in Chicago, Illinois. Both Johnson and Choynski are extending their arms at their sides.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in February 1901:
context_section_description: The United States Steel Corporation was incorporated in New Jersey by industrialist J. P. Morgan, as the first billion-dollar corporation, with total capital valued at more than $1,400,000,000.
  Professional boxers Jack Johnson and Joe Choynski fought a bout inside Harmony Hall in Galveston, Texas, and were both arrested after Choynski knocked out Johnson in the third round, for violating the state law against fighting for professional gain.  The arrest would prove to be a big break for Johnson, an African-American rookie; he and Choynski, a white 33-year old boxer described as "the first Jewish American athlete to rise to international repute", shared a jail cell for the next 24 days, during which "Choynski taught Johnson the defensive style that he would perfect during his career".  The two men were freed after a grand jury declined to indict them, and Johnson would go on to become the world heavyweight boxing champion.
  Arizona's territorial Capitol Building, which would continue as the state capitol building when Arizona became a state in 1912, was dedicated in Phoenix.
  Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero resigned as Prime Minister of Spain, along with his entire cabinet, after he declared that the group "regarded the mission for which it took office being accomplished by the marriage of the Infanta Maria de las Mercedes to Prince Charles of Bourbon".
  Thirty-two miners at the Diamondville Coal and Coke Company, in Diamondville, Wyoming, were killed in a fire in a mine shaft.
  George M. Cohan's first Broadway, The Governor's Son (starring the Four Cohans), opened, but would close after a month because of a disastrous first night in front of the critics.
  After again posting bail and being released from jail, Carrie Nation set off on another destructive raid on a saloon.  During the fracas, a Topeka citizen was shot and seriously wounded.
  The town of Buhl, Minnesota (motto "The Finest Water in America") was incorporated.
  Born: 
  Zeppo Marx (Herbert Manfred Marx), American comedian and one of the Marx Brothers, in New York City (died 1979);
  Vince Gair, Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland (1952–57), then served as Chairman of the Democratic Labor Party while serving as a Senator for Queensland brom 1965 to 1974; in Rockhampton, Queensland (died 1980)
caption: Johnson and Choynski
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