1911

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Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1911
- - Jan. . Feb. . March . April
- - May . June . July . Aug.
- - Sept. . Oct. . Nov. . Dec.
- - Undated . Ongoing .
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
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Events of 1911

January

January 1 - Northern Territory is politically separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
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, Indiana.
January 10 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the first aerial photograph (over San Diego, California).
January 12 - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
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 races (Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo).
January 21 - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate (modern Botswana).
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

February

February 6 - Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
February 18 - First official air mail flight took place in Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carried 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.

March

March - The first installment of a serialized version of Frederick Winslow Taylor's monograph The Principles of Scientific Management (online version here) appears in American Magazine. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues. It is the first time that The Principles of Scientific Management is widely read. The efficiency movement, which has been simmering of late, boils over and becomes a craze.
March 1 - José Batlle y Ordóñez is elected President of Uruguay.
March 8 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time
March 10 - Kansas legislature approves House Bill Number 906, effectively the first blue sky law in the United States, culminating an effort by Joseph Norman Dolley, Kansas' banking commissioner.
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

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 Agua Prieta along the US border. Government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" Lopez is drunk
April 19 - Mexican Revolution - 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

May 23: New York Public Library dedication ceremony held.

May 8 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission. Government troops surrender May 10.
May 11 - Futurist exhibition in Milan was the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete.
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 - Mexican Revolution - Porfirio Diaz is convinced to resign but he does not do it officially.
May 21 - Mexican Revolution - Peace treaty between rebels of Madero and government troops in Ciudad Juarez.
May 23 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
May 24 - Mexican Revolution - Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City - about 200 dead (official claim only 40).
May 25 - Mexican Revolution - Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz; on 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' and titanic was lunched

June

June 7 - Mexican Revolution - Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City just after a local earthquake.
June 14 - A national seamen's strike begins in Britain.
June 14 - RMS Olympic, sister to the RMS Titanic, begins her maiden voyage at Southampton, England.
June 15 - IBM incorporated as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) 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.
June 28 - The Nakhla meteorite (from Mars) lands in the area of Alexandria, Egypt, purportedly killing a dog.

July

July 1 - German Warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers Agadir Crisis escalating pre-WW1 tensions. Subsequent climbdown rallies German militancy.
July 24 - Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.

July 24: Machu Picchu

August

August 8 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law will take effect in 1913.
August 9 - Raunds, Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C), the highest UK temperature until 1990.
August 10 - British MPs vote to receive salaries for the first time.
August 22 - Theft of Mona Lisa discovered in [Louvre] (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned 1913).
August 29 - The Diocese of Kottayam was erected on this day (Kerala, India), for the Knanaya Catholic people of the Syro-Malabar Church. In 2005 the diocese was raised to the rank of Archdiocese. For details on the community see "knanaya" in Wikipedia. Added by JVL (RM)

September

September 7 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. He is later released.
September 11 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
September 20 - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton, England.
September 25
- French navy ship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon
- Groundbreaking for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts

begins.

September 30
- A concrete dam owned by the Bayless Pulp & Paper Mill broke almost completely wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania and continued down stream about 8 miles into the village of Costello. See Austin Dam.

October

October - First Solvay Congress - meeting of physicists
October 6 - The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England.
October 10
- Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution that will lead to the founding of the Republic of China.
- Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada's eighth prime minister.
October 16 - Mexican Revolution - Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz, occupies the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against Madero
October 18 - revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
October 24 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. [1]
October 28 - Foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship's international headquarters at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California. It had been preceded by its formal constitution in August 8, 1909 at Seattle, Washington.

November

November 11: Old district of Visoko today: In November 1911 it was almost completely destroyed by fire.

November 3 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
November 4 - Selandia launched in Denmark, the first ocean going diesel Ship.
November 5 - After declaring war on Turkey on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (this act was confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25, 1912).
November 11
- A record cold snap hits the United States midwest. Many cities break record highs and lows on same day. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
- Big fire struck Visoko burning over 450 houses and other objects. The upper city area was completely burned, as well all the houses down the main street alongside Beledija.
November 15 - Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne and later Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco officially recognizes his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet as Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
November 16 - Earthquake in Swab, South Germany
November 17 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded at Howard University.

December

December 11: Coronation ceremonies in new capital of India, New Delhi, site of Humayun's Tomb

December 11 - Coronation in New Delhi of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck as Emperor of India and Empress consort respectively
December 12 - The capital of India was shifted to New Delhi from Calcutta (now Kolkata).
December 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
December 21 - First robbery of the Bonnot gang
December 23 - Stanislavski and Craig's seminal production of Hamlet opened at the Moscow Arts Theatre
December 24 - Opening of Lackawanna Cutoff, the first of two major cutoffs built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, just three years after it was built.
December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China

Undated

First Urdu language typewriter made available.
In Canada, the Dominion Parks Branch was established (now Parks Canada), the world's first national park service. In 1911 it fell under the Department of the Interior, and now resides within the Department of the Environment.
Appleby College, a Canadian university-preparatory schools, is founded.
University of Iceland founded
University of Wales, Bangor moves to new buildings.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica published.
Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux is first translated into English.
Southern Methodist University is founded in Dallas, Texas.