page_title: October 1901
section_title: October 3, 1901 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1901 / October 3, 1901 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: Habibullah Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan from 1901 until his assassination in 1919. He was born in Tashkent, the eldest son of the Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, whom he succeeded by right of primogeniture in October 1901.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1901:
context_section_description: Abdur Rahman Khan, known as "The Iron Emir" for his authoritarian rule as King of Afghanistan, died after a reign of 21 years. His son, Habibullah Khan, announced the death later that morning and became the new King of Afghanistan, giving himself the title Siraj al-Millat wa'd-Din (Torch of the Nation and the Faith), and would reign until his assassination on February 20, 1919.
  Inventors Eldridge R. Johnson and Emile Berliner founded the Victor Talking Machine Company, producing Berliner's 3-minute disc shaped gramophone records and Johnson's modification of the Berliner gramophone that used a spring-driven motor to mechanically spin the discs, as well as an improved sound system and a process for mass-pressing records on wax rather than hard rubber.  The disc format would prove more popular than the cylinder format used by Edison Records and by Columbia.
  At the annual meeting of the clergy of the Episcopal Church of the United States, held in San Francisco  delegates from the Diocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of Colorado presented separate resolutions urging the denomination to change its name to "The American Catholic Church".
caption: New King Habiibullah Khan
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