1911

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

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

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.
• 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 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 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).
• December 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
• December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China
• University of Wales, Bangor moved to new buildings.
• 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica published.
• End of Qing Dynasty in China.

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

Year in topic

• 1911 in art
• 1911 in film
• 1911 in literature
  • Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
• 1911 in music
• 1911 in science
• 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 (d. 1995)
• January 22 - Bruno Kreisky, Prime Minister of Austria (d. 1990)
• January 29 - Peter von Siemens, industrialist (d. 1986)
• February 6 - Ronald Reagan, United States President, actor
• February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1979)
• February 11 - Alec Cairncross, chancellor of the University of Glasgow
• February 19 - Merle Oberon, actress (d. 1979)
• March 3 - Jean Harlow, actress (d. 1937)
• March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard, author (d. 1986)
• March 16 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
• March 24 - Joseph Barbera, cartoonist
• March 25 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
• March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
• March 29 - Brigitte Horney, actress (d. 1988)
• April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
• April 11 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American sprinter
• April 26 - Marianne Hoppe, actress
• May 8 - Robert Johnson, Blues guitarist and singer.
• May 11 - Phil Silvers, actor, comedian (d. 1985)
• May 15 - Max Frisch, author
• May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
• May 18 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (d. 1985)
• May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children books writer
• May 20 - Gardner Fox, writer (d. 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 (d. 1993)
• May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder, author (d. 1986)
• June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer
• July 4 - Mitch Miller, singer, television personality
• July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (d. 2003)
• June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
• July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author
• October 13 - Ashok Kumar - actor, India († 2001)
• October 14 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1990)
• September 9 - John Gorton, Australian Prime Minister
• September 23 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator Utah
• December 3 - Nino Rota, composer
• December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist
• Yolande Beekman, SOE agent, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis (d. 1944)
• 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
• September 16 - Edward Whymper, British explorer
• October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist
• December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (b. 1817)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Wilhelm Wien
• Chemistry - Marie Sklodowska-Curie
• Medicine - Allvar Gullstrand
• Literature - Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
• Peace - Tobias Michael Carel Asser Alfred Hermann Fried

See also: M1911

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