page_title: November 1901
section_title: November 26, 1901 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: November 1901 / November 26, 1901 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Tomás Estrada y Palma, the first President of Cuba
context_page_description: The following events occurred in November 1901:
context_section_description: Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist at the Hospital for the Mentally Ill and Epileptics in Frankfurt, had his first meeting with the patient who would become the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.  Auguste Deter, the 51 year old wife of an office clerk, had been admitted to the hospital the day before, after having gradually deteriorated over eight months that had started with delusions and memory loss in March.  After her death on April 8, 1906, Alzheimer would examine samples of her brain taken at autopsy, and publish his findings about "Auguste D." in a paper titled On a Peculiar, Severe Disease Process of the Cerebral Cortex.
  Twenty-seven employees of the Penberthy Injector Company in Detroit were killed by the explosion of a boiler.  The blast, which happened at the company's factory at Abbott Street and Brooklyn Avenue, happened at 9:30 in the morning and leveled the three-story-high manufacturing building.
  Cuban native Tomás Estrada Palma who had been a U.S. citizen for more than 20 years had served as a schoolmaster in New York state, renounced his American citizenship so that he could run for President of Cuba.  He would win the election and take office as Cuba's first President on May 20, 1902,
  Born: William "Deak" Parsons, U.S. Navy officer and ordnance expert who served as the weaponeer who armed the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945; in Evanston, Illinois (d. 1953).  Captain Parsons traveled with the nuclear weapon on the airplane Enola Gay and inserted the powder charge and detonator as the plane approached its target.  He was promoted to Rear Admiral after the end of World War II.
caption: Former U.S. citizen Estrada
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