1911

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1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar).

Years: 1908 1909 1910 - 1911 (MCMXI) - 1912 1913 1914
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Template:C20YearInTopic

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January-June
1.2 July-October
1.3 November-December
1.4 Unknown dates

2 Births

2.1 January-March
2.2 April-June
2.3 July-September
2.4 October-December
2.5 Unknown dates

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

5 See also

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Events

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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 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 races
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
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.
May 30 - The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp',
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.

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July-October

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 finds Machu Picchu
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 14 - Birth of Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, one of the great thinkers of the 21st century.
August 22 - Theft of Mona Lisa discovered in Louvre (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned 1913)
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 - Liner Olympic collides with a cruiser HMS Haske with minimal damage
September 29 - French navy ship Liberte explodes anchored in Toulon
October 6 - The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England.
October 10 - Wuchang Uprising which led to the founding of the Republic of China.
October 10 - Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada's eighth prime minister.
October 28 - Foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship's international headquarters and Healing Temple, till today, at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside (California); It had been preceded by its formal constitution in August 8 1909 at Seattle (Washington).