page_title: September 1901
section_title: September 22, 1901 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1901 / September 22, 1901 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Frederick Burr Opper's Alphonse and Gaston, an early American comic strip featuring a bumbling pair from France. Français&#160;: Bande dessinée américaine de Frederick Burr Opper, mettant en scène deux héros français gaffeurs&#160;: Alphonse et Gaston. Svenska: Alphonse &amp; Gaston amerikansk tecknad dagsstrippserie skapad av Frederick Burr Opper 1902.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1901:
context_section_description: The comic strip "Alphonse and Gaston" made its debut, creating the catchphrase "After you, my dear Alphonse" to express the idea of letting somebody else do something first, and the "Alphonse-and-Gaston routine", where neither side will do anything constructive until the other one acts first.  Created by Frederick Burr Opper for the Sunday New York Journal, the feature was based on the premise of two exceedingly polite Frenchmen.
  District Attorney Thomas Penney, leading the prosecution in the Czolgosz murder trial, announced in Buffalo that forensic tests had ruled out the theory of that poisoned bullets had been used in the shooting of President McKinley.  The President's death from gangrene of the stomach had been the result of improper care of the wound, rather than a contaminant used by the assassin.
  Born: 
  Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; in Halifax, Nova Scotia (died 1997)
  Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Joseph Stalin, in Baku (committed suicide, 1932)
caption: Alphonse and Gaston
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