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1911
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1911 (''' MCMXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (click on link for calendar).
Events
January-June
- January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia
- January 3 - In London , in what becomes known as the Siege Of Sidney Street , the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian Anarchists held up in a building in the East End .
- January 5 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity is founded at Indiana University Bloomington .
- January 10 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the first Aerial Photograph (over San Diego, California ).
- January 18 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the '' USS Pennsylvania '' stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
- January 21 - First Monte Carlo Race s
- January 26 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful Seaplane .
- January 30 - The destroyer '' USS Terry '' makes the first Airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana , Cuba .
- March 1 - Jose Ordonez is elected President of Uruguay .
- March 8 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time
- March 24 - Denmark abolishes Death Penalty and Flogging
- March 25 - Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City - 145 dead
- March 29 - United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.
- April 6 - Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi , Montenegro for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
- April 13 - Mexican Revolution - Rebels take Aqua Prieta besides US border. Government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" Lopez is drunk
- April 19 - Francisco Madero 's troops besiege Ciudad Juarez but general Juan J. Navarro refuses his demand of surrender
- April 27 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye , a Compromise Is Reached To Rotate the office of President Pro Tempore Of The United States Senate .
- April 30 - Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire Of 1911 , destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine .
- May 11 - Futurist exhibition in Milan was the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete
- May 8 - Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission. Government troops surrender May 10
- May 15 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" Monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
- May 17 - Porfirio Diaz is convinced to resign but he does not do it officially
- May 21 - Peace treaty between rebels of Madero and government troops in Ciudad Juarez
- May 23 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library .
- May 24 - Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City - about 200 dead (official claim only 40)
- May 25 - Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz . May 31 he leaves for exile in France
- May 30 - The first Indianapolis 500 -mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp'.
- June 7 - Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City just after a local earthquake
- June 14 - A national seamen's strike begins in Britain .
- June 15 - IBM incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in New York
- June 16 - A 772 Gram stony Meteorite struck earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn damaging a barn.
- June 22 - Coronation of George V Of The United Kingdom and Mary Of Teck at Westminster Abbey , London .
July-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Births
January-March
- January 1 - Hank Greenberg , baseball player (d. 1986 )
- January 3 - John Sturges , American film director (d. 1982 )
- January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor (d. 2001 )
- January 7 - Butterfly McQueen , American actress (d. 1995 )
- January 11 - Zenko Suzuki , Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 2004 )
- January 13 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen , Premier of Queensland (d. 2005 )
- January 17 - George Joseph Stigler , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- January 22 - Bruno Kreisky , Chancellor Of Austria (d. 1990 )
- January 24 - C. L. Moore , American writer (d. 1987 )
- January 26 - Polykarp Kusch , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
- January 29 - Peter Von Siemens , German industrialist (d. 1986 )
- January 30 - Roy Eldridge , American jazz musician (d. 1989 )
- February 5 - Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960 )
- February 6 - Ronald Reagan , United States President (d. 2004 )
- February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop , American poet (d. 1979 )
- February 12 - Stephen H. Sholes , American recording executive (d. 1968 )
- February 17 - Oskar Seidlin , Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d. 1984 )
- February 19 - Merle Oberon , British actress (d. 1979 )
- March 3 - Jean Harlow , American actress (d. 1937 )
- March 8 - Alan Hovhaness , American composer (d. 2000 )
- March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard , American author (d. 1986 )
- March 16 - Josef Mengele , Nazi Germany war criminal (d. 1979 )
- March 20 - Alfonso García Robles , Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1991 )
- March 24 - Joseph Barbera , American cartoonist
- March 25 - Jack Ruby , American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967 )
- March 26 - Bernard Katz , German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2003 )
- March 26 - Tennessee Williams , American playwright (d. 1983 )
- March 27 - Erich Heller , British philosopher, long resident in the U.S. (d. 1990 )
- March 29 - Brigitte Horney , German-born actress (d. 1988 )
- March 31 - Elisabeth Grümmer , Alsatian soprano (d. 1986 )
April-June
- April 5 - Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960 )
- April 6 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen , German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1979 )
- April 8 - Melvin Calvin , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997 )
- April 8 - Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995 )
- April 11 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz , Polish-born runner(d. 1980 )
- April 26 - Marianne Hoppe , German actress (d. 2002 )
- May 8 - Robert Johnson , American guitarist and singer (d. 1938 )
- May 11 - Phil Silvers , American actor and comedian (d. 1985 )
- May 11 - Doodles Weaver , American actor and comedian (d. 1983
- May 15 - Max Frisch , Swiss author (d. 1991 )
- May 17 - Lisa Fonssagrives , Swedish model (d. 1992 )
- May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan , Irish actress (d. 1998 )
- May 18 - Big Joe Turner , American singer (d. 1985 )
- May 20 - Gardner Fox , American writer (d. 1986 )
- May 20 - Milt Gabler , American record producer (d. 2001 )
- May 26 - Ben Alexander , American actor (d. 1969 )
- May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey , U.S. Vice President and Senator (d. 1978 )
- May 27 - Teddy Kollek , Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem
- May 27 - Vincent Price , American actor (d. 1993 )
- May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian author (d. 1986 )
- May 31 - Maurice Allais , French economicst, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 13 - Luis Alvarez , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988 )
- June 15 - W.V. Awdry , English children's writer (d. 1997 )
- June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentine race car driver (d. 1995 )
- June 25 - William Howard Stein , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 )
- June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias , American athlete and golfer (d. 1956 )
- June 29 - Prince Bernhard Of The Netherlands (d. 2004 )
- June 29 - Bernard Herrmann , American composer (d. 1975 )
- June 30 - Czesław Miłosz , Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
July-September
- July 4 - Mitch Miller , American singer and television personality
- July 9 - Mervyn Peake , British writer and illustrator (d. 1968 )
- July 16 - Ginger Rogers , American actress (d. 1995 )
- July 18 - Hume Cronyn , Canadian actor (d. 2003 )
- July 21 - Marshall McLuhan , Canadian author (d. 1980 )
- July 27 - Lupita Tovar , Mexican actress
- August 6 - Lucille Ball , American actress (d. 1989 )
- August 9 - William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- August 12 - Jane Wyatt , American actress
- August 14 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi , Indian yogi
- August 17 - Mikhail Botvinnik , Russian chess player (d. 1995 )
- August 23 - Betty Robinson , American athelete (d. 1999 )
- August 23 - Birger Ruud , Norwegian athelete (d. 1998 )
- August 27 - Kay Walsh , British actress (d. 2005 )
- September 2 - Floyd Council , American musician (d. 1976 )
- September 6 - Harry Danning , baseball player (d. 2004 )
- September 9 - John Gorton , nineteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 2002 )
- September 19 - William Golding , English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993 )
- September 23 - Frank Moss , U.S. Senator from Utah (d. 2003 )
October-December
- October 5 - Flann O'Brien , Irish humorist (d. 1966 )
- October 13 - Ashok Kumar , Indian actor (d. 2001 )
- October 14 - Le Duc Tho , Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990 )
- October 15 - James H. Schmitz , German-born American Science Fiction writer (d. 1981 )
- October 26 - Sid Gillman , American football coach (d. 2003 )
- October 30 - Ruth Hussey , American actress (d. 2005 )
- November 2 - Odysseas Elytis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- November 5 - Roy Rogers , American singer and actor (d. 1998 )
- November 27 - David Merrick , American theater producer (d. 2000 )
- December 3 - Nino Rota , Italian composer (d. 1979 )
- December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 13 - Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999 )
- December 13 - Kenneth Patchen , American poet and painter (d. 1972 )
- December 23 - Niels Kaj Jerne , English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1994 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
- March 1 - Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff , Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
- April 25 - Emilio Salgari , Italian writer (b. 1862 )
- May 18 - Gustav Mahler , Austrian composer (b. 1860 )
- May 21 - Williamina Fleming , Scottish astronomer (b. 1857 )
- May 29 - William S. Gilbert , English dramatist (b. 1836 )
- June 9 - Carrie Nation , American temperance activist (b. 1846 )
- August 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey , American painter (b. 1852 )
- August 8 - William P. Frye , U.S. Senator (b. 1830 )
- September 16 - Edward Whymper , British explorer (b. 1840 )
- October 7 - John Hughlings Jackson , English neurologist (b. 1835 )
- October 14 - John Marshall Harlan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833 )
- October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born newspaper publisher and journalist (b. 1847 )
- December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist (b. 1817 )
Nobel prizes
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