1911 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1911?
- 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 21, 1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
- January 30, 1911 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- March 29, 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- April 8, 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- May 9, 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
- May 21, 1911 – Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
- May 31, 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
- September 1, 1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
- September 7, 1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
- September 18, 1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
- October 9, 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
- November 1, 1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- November 3, 1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- November 11, 1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
- 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.
- December 9, 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- December 14, 1911 – Roald Amundsen’s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
- December 24, 1911 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
- December 27, 1911 – “Jana Gana Mana,” the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
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