1911 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1911?
- January 1, 1911 – Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
- January 2, 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill
- January 3, 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- January 12, 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- January 30, 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- March 25, 1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- April 2, 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country’s first national census.
- April 8, 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- May 23, 1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
- May 30, 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
- June 22, 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- July 24, 1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
- August 14, 1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye’s death.
- September 18, 1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
- September 29, 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- October 10, 1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
- October 23, 1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
- October 24, 1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- November 17, 1911 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington,DC.
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