1911 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 - 1911 - 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916

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Events

January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia
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 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 25 - Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City
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 23 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
August 22 - Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre
October 10 - Birth of Republic of China.
October 10 - Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada's eighth prime minister.
December 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China

1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica published.
End of Qing Dynasty in China.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1911 in film
1911 in literature
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
1911 in music
1911 in sports[?]
- January 21 - The first Monte Carlo motor rally[?]
- May 30 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.

Births

January 1 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player
January 3 - John Sturges[?], director
January 7 - Butterfly McQueen[?], actress (+ 1995)
January 22 - Bruno Kreisky[?], Prime Minister of Austria[?] (+ 1990)
January 29 - Peter von Siemens[?], industrialist (+ 1986)
February 6 - Ronald Reagan, United States President, actor
February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1979)
February 11 - Alec Cairncross[?], chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
February 19 - Merle Oberon, actress (+ 1979)
March 3 - Jean Harlow[?], actress (+ 1937)
March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard, author (+ 1986)
March 16 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (+ 1979)
March 24 - Joseph Barbera[?], cartoonist
March 25 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (+ 1967)
March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
March 29 - Brigitte Horney[?], actress (+ 1988)
April 8 - Emil Cioran[?], Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (+ 1995)
April 26 - Marianne Hoppe[?], actress
May 8 - Robert Johnson, Blues guitarist and singer.
May 11 - Phil Silvers[?], actor, comedian (+ 1985)
May 15 - Max Frisch[?], author
May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (+ 1998)
May 18 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (+ 1985)
May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt[?], Dutch children books writer
May 20 - Gardner Fox, writer (+ 1986)
May 26 - Ben Alexander[?], actor
May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President and Senator
May 27 - Teddy Kollek[?], mayor of Jerusalem
May 27 - Vincent Price, actor (+ 1993)
May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder[?], author (+ 1986)
July 4 - Mitch Miller[?], singer, television personality
July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (+ 2003)
June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author
October 14 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (+ 1990)
September 9 - John Gorton, Australian Prime Minister
December 3 - Nino Rota, composer
December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.
C. L. Moore - science fiction and fantasy writer.

Deaths

February 11 - Albert von Rothschild[?], Austrian baron and banker.
May 18 - Gustav Mahler, composer
May 29 - William S. Gilbert, Dramatist
October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist

Science

Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments.
Onnes[?] discovers superconductivity.

Nobel Prizes

See also: M1911