1911 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1911?
- January 3, 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- January 5, 1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world’s second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
- January 12, 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- January 14, 1911 – Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
- January 26, 1911 – Richard Strauss’ opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- January 30, 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- March 29, 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- April 6, 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
- May 9, 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
- May 15, 1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
- June 16, 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- July 24, 1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
- September 1, 1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
- 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.
- December 10, 1911 – The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.
- 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.
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