1911

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

Events

January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia
January 3 - In London, a shootout between Russian anarchists and the Scots Guard
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.
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 ? 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 20 - Liner Olympic collides with a cruiser HMS Haske with minimal damage
September 29 - French navy ship Liberte explodes anchored in Toulon
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 enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
November 4 - Selandia launched in Denmark, the first ocean going diesel Ship.
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).
November 15 - Prince Louis Honor� 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 16 ? Earthquake in Swab, South Germany
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 21 ? First robbery of the Bonnot gang
December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China

First Solvay Congress - meeting of physicists
Hiram Bingham finds Macchu Picchu
Iceland University founded
University of Wales, Bangor moved to new buildings.
[[1911 Encyclop�dia Britannica]] published.
End of Qing Dynasty in China.
Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments.
Onnes discovers superconductivity.

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, former mayor of Jerusalem
May 27 - Vincent Price, actor (d. 1993)
May 28 - [[Fritz Hochw�lder]], author (d. 1986)
June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer
July 4 - Mitch Miller, singer, television personality
July 9 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (d. 2003)
June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
June 30 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (d. August 14, 2004)
July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author