1911

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

Table of contents

1 Events

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

2 Births

2.5 January-March
2.6 April-July
2.7 October-December
2.8 unknown dates

3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

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.
June 15 - IBM incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in New York
June 22- Coronation of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey, London.

July 1 - German Warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers Agadir Crisis escalating pre-WW1 tensions. Subsequent climbdown rallies German militancy.
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 22 - Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre
September 7 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre museum.
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.

November 3 - Chevrolet officially entered the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
November 4 - Selandia launched in Denmark, the first ocean going diesel Ship.
November 15 - Prince Louis HonorÃÂ© 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 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).
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 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China

See also: M1911

Years: 1908 1909 1910 - 1911 - 1912 1913 1914
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