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This article is about the year 1911. For the lm, see Aeronautical Reserve, is the only African-American
1911 (lm). For the pistol, see M1911 pistol. For other to invent and display an airplane for which he wins
uses, see 1911 (disambiguation). a medal.[2]
January 3
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sun-
day (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of
a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty
of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more
Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th people.[3]
year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th
Siege of Sidney Street: Two Latvian anarchists
century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the
die after a seven-hour siege against a combined
start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead
police and military force. Home Secretary,
of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use
Winston Churchill arrived to oversee events.
until 1923.
A highlight was the race for the South Pole. January 5 Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity is founded
at Indiana University Bloomington.[4]
1.2 February
Main article: February 1911
February 5
1
2 1 EVENTS
February 17 The rst quasi-ocial airmail ight April 27 Huanghuagang Uprising takes place in
occurs when Fred Wiseman carries three letters be- China. This is an insurrection where rebels in China
tween Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California. take ve Chinese villages in an attempt to create a
power base to ght Imperial rule. Those who die
February 18 The rst ocial air mail ight, second are remembered as The 72 Martyrs. The event is
overall, takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, also called the Second Guangzhou Uprising and the
India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a dis- Yellow Flower Mound Revolt.
tance of 13 km.
1.5 May
1.3 March
Main article: May 1911
Main article: March 1911
April 8 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers May 25 Mexican Revolution: Porrio Daz signs
superconductivity. He presents his ndings on April his resignation and leaves for Veracruz; on May 31
28.[8] he leaves for exile in France.
April 13 Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua May 30 The very rst Indianapolis 500 automobile
Prieta on the SonoraArizona border; government race is held in the United States, won by Ray Har-
troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel roun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.
leader Red Lpez is drunk.
May 31 The hull of the RMS Titanic is launched in
April 18 SS Lusitania, a 5,557-ton Portuguese pas- Belfast, on the very same day RMS Olympic started
senger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, her sea trials.
strikes Bellows Rock just o Cape Point and sinks.
April 26 HK Graanski Zagreb (modern-day June 14 RMS Olympic departs Southampton, Eng-
GNK Dinamo Zagreb), a Croatian football club, is land for her maiden voyage. First stop at Cherbourg,
founded in Zagreb. France.
1.9 September 3
1.9 September
1.7 July
Main article: September 1911
Main article: July 1911
July 1 The presence of the German warship September 20 RMS Olympic collided with the
Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers the HMS Hawke causing considerable damage to both
Agadir Crisis. ships.
July 4 RMS Olympic crossed the Atlantic to dis- September 25 The French battleship Libert ex-
charge passengers and mails at Plymouth, England. plodes at anchor in Toulon, France, killing around
July 5 RMS Olympic arrived in Southampton, Eng- 300 on both ship and the neighbouring area.
land ending her maiden eastbound voyage from New
York. September 29 Italy declares war on the Ottoman
Empire.
July 24 Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu
in Peru.
1.10 October
1.8 August
Main article: October 1911
Main article: August 1911
1.11 November
December 14: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole. December 14 Roald Amundsen's expedition
reaches the South Pole.
Main article: November 1911
December 18 Opening of rst exhibition by Der
Blaue Reiter group of painters, in Munich.
November 1 Worlds rst combat aerial bomb-
December 29 Sun Yat-sen is elected the Provi-
ing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-
sional President of the Republic of China.
Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of
Italy drops several small bombs.
November 4 Treaty of Berlin brings the Agadir 1.13 Date unknown
Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be
split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain The Encyclopdia Britannica Eleventh Edition is
(as the colony of Spanish Sahara) with Germany published under American management in England
forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France by Cambridge University Press.
gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as
New Zealand-born British physicist Ernest Ruther-
Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German
ford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nu-
Kamerun to France (as Chad).
cleus from experiments involving Rutherford scat-
November 5 Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica tering, proposing the Rutherford model of the atom.
(conrmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on
February 25, 1912).
2 Births
1.12 December
2.1 JanuaryFebruary
Main article: December 1911
January 1
2.2 MarchApril 5
Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. January 29 Peter von Siemens, German industri-
1986) alist (d. 1986)
Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist
January 30 Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician
(d. 2012)
(d. 1989)
January 3 Al Sack, American conductor, com-
poser, and violinist (d. 1947) January 31
January 5 Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. Baba Vanga, blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoy-
2001) ant, and herbalist (d. 1996)
Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (d. 1981)
January 7 Buttery McQueen, American actress
(d. 1995) February 5 Jussi Bjrling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
January 10 Norman Heatley, British biologist (d.
February 6 Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the
2004)
United States (d. 2004)
January 11 Zenk Suzuki, Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 2004) February 8 Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d.
1979)
January 13 Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of
Queensland (d. 2005) February 12
January 25 Kurt Maetzig, German director (d. February 24 Eduardo Va Pastor, Spanish car-
2012) toonist (d. 1993)
January 26 Polykarp Kusch, German-born physi- February 27 Egon Sundberg, Swedish football
cist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) player (d. 2015)
January 28 Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, aca- February 28 Otakar Vvra, Czech director (d.
demic and author, Yad Vashem recipient 2011)
6 2 BIRTHS
March 13
March 16
March 24
March 26
April 8
April 18
2.3 MayJune
May 5 Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess Grand-
master (d. 2010)
May 11
Hubert Humphrey
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
May 24
May 27
May 18 Big Joe Turner, American singer (d. June 4 Milovan ilas, Yugoslavian Marxist (d.
1985) 1995)
June 13
May 20
Prince Aly Khan, Imam of Ismaili Shi'a Islam
Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986) (d. 1960)
Milt Gabler, American record producer (d. Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize
2001) laureate (d. 1988)
2.4 JulyAugust 9
June 21
June 24
June 26
June 29
2.4 JulyAugust
July 1 Sergei Sokolov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
(d. 2012)
July 4
July 5
July 6 LaVerne Andrews, American singer (d. Joan Perry, American lm actress, model, and
1967) singer (d. 1996)
10 2 BIRTHS
Svetislav Valjarevi, Serbian Yugoslavia inter- August 8 Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d.
national football player (d. 1996) 2002)
Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. August 9 William Alfred Fowler, American physi-
1968) cist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist
August 10 A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian
(d. 2008)
(d. 1993)
July 10 August 11
Amalia Solrzano, former First Lady of Mex- William H. Avery, American politician (d.
ico (d. 2008) 2009)
Bruno Vale, Italian football player Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of
Thailand (d. 2004)
July 15 Hans von Luck, German ocer in the
Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany (d. 1997) August 12 Cantinas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
July 16 August 14 Vethathiri Maharishi, spiritual leader,
founder of the World Community Service Center
Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (WCSC) (d. 2006)
(d. 1995)
Rafael Aragn Cabrera, Argentine soccer August 15 Anthony Salerno, American gangster
leader (d. 1992)
August 17
July 17 Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author,
and translator (d. 2016) Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d.
1995)
July 18
Martin Sandberger, German military ocer
Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003) (d. 2010)
2.5 SeptemberOctober 11
October 5
Sid Gillman, American football coach (d. December 3 Nino Rota, Italian composer (d.
2003) 1979)
Mahalia Jackson, African-American gospel December 5 Wadysaw Szpilman, Polish pianist
singer (d. 1972) and memoirist (d. 2000)
October 27 Leif Erickson, American actor (d. December 8 Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d.
1986) 1976)
October 30 Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. December 9 Broderick Crawford, American actor
2005) (d. 1986)
December 10 Chet Huntley, American television
2.6 NovemberDecember reporter (d. 1974)
November 1 December 11
Henri Troyat, French writer (d. 2007) Val Guest, British lm director (d. 2006)
Sidney Wood, American tennis player (d. Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel
2009) Prize laureate (d. 2006)
Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (d. 2009)
November 2 Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1996) December 13
November 5 Roy Rogers, American singer and ac- Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, No-
tor (d. 1998) bel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
November 7 Yolande Beekman, French-born Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter
World War II heroine (d. 1944) (d. 1972)
December 23
3 Deaths
3.1 JanuaryJune
January 17 Sir Francis Galton, English explorer
and biologist (b. 1822)
May 21 Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer October 14 John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme
(b. 1857) Court Justice (b. 1833)
May 27 Thursday October Christian II, Pitcairn October 18 Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b.
Islands leader (b. 1820) 1857)
May 29 William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. October 19 Eugene Ely, American aviation pio-
1836) neer (b. 1886)
June 2 Axel Olof Freudenthal, Finnish philologist October 24 Ida Lewis, American lighthouse
and politician (b. 1836) keeper (b. 1842)
June 9 Carrie Nation, American temperance ac- October 29 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born
tivist (b. 1846) newspaper publisher and journalist (b. 1847)
June 25 Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (b. October 31 John Joseph Montgomery, American
1843) glider pioneer (b. 1858)
November 9 Howard Pyle, American artist and c-
3.2 JulyDecember tional writer (b. 1853)
July 2 Clement A. Evans, American Confederate November 22 William George Aston, British con-
general (b. 1833) sular ocial (b. 1841)
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