Today in History for Year 1911

Months in Year 1911: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 211

Jan 1st - Belgian Mining law introduces 9½ hour work day
Jan 1st - South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government
Jan 2nd - Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
Jan 3rd - US postal savings bank inaugurated
Jan 5th - Portuguese expel Jesuits
Jan 5th - San Francisco has its first air meet
Jan 7th - 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
Jan 7th - Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
Jan 10th - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
Jan 10th - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
Jan 10th - Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
Jan 12th - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
Jan 13th - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
Jan 13th - Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
Jan 13th - South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide
Jan 16th - Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
Jan 17th - Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
Jan 17th - Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC
Jan 18th - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann Jan 26th - Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
Jan 26th - Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
Jan 28th - Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
Jan 30th - 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
Jan 31st - Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
Feb 5th - Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
Feb 6th - 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz
Feb 6th - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
Feb 8th - US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
Feb 17th - 1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
Feb 18th - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
Feb 21st - Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique)
Feb 25th - Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia
Mar 3rd - 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
Mar 4th - Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
Mar 7th - US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
Mar 7th - Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
Mar 8th - 1st International Woman's Day
Mar 8th - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
Mar 13th - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
Mar 13th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
Mar 16th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4
Mar 18th - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
Mar 20th - National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC)
Mar 20th - Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
Mar 25th - L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
Mar 25th - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
Mar 30th - Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
Apr 3rd - Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in NYC
Apr 4th - Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
Apr 5th - MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie
Apr 5th - Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
Apr 12th - 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
Apr 13th - Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames
Apr 15th - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
Apr 15th - Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
Apr 19th - 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6
Playwright George Bernard Shaw Apr 19th - George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play," premieres in London
Apr 27th - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
Apr 30th - Portugal approves woman suffrage
May 2nd - French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco
May 9th - Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
May 11th - The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
May 13th - 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05
May 13th - NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
May 15th - British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
May 15th - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
May 15th - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
May 15th - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
May 16th - Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
May 16th - Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
May 17th - 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
May 18th - Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
May 19th - Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
May 19th - Phila Athletics are 12½ games back in AL, & will win World Series
May 20th - Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts v Sussex
May 22nd - Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
May 23rd - NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
May 25th - Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
May 26th - 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
May 29th - 1st running of Indianapolis 500
May 30th - 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
May 31st - R.M.S. Titanic launched.
Jun 1st - 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
Jun 3rd - "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
Jun 5th - Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
Jun 6th - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
Jun 8th - Belgium government of Schollaert falls
Jun 10th - Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
Jun 11th - Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15
Jun 11th - UNIA founded by Garvey
Jun 15th - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
Jun 16th - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
Jun 17th - Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
Jun 20th - NAACP incorporates (NY)
Jun 22nd - King George V of England crowned
Jun 24th - 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
Jun 26th - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
Jun 28th - Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
Jun 29th - Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier
Jun 30th - Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 491

Jan 1st - Endre Szervanszky, composer [or Dec 27]
Jan 1st - Hank Greenberg, Hall-of-Fame 1st baseman (Detroit Tiger)
Jan 3rd - John Sturges, US, director (Old Man & Sea, Magnificent 7)
Jan 5th - Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris France, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker) (d. 2001)
Jan 6th - Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70)
Jan 6th - Joey Adams, Bkln NY, comedian/actor/columnist (ABC's Back That Fact)
Jan 6th - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram, Town People)
Jan 6th - Yannis Andreou Papaioannou, composer
Jan 7th - Merv Waite, cricketer (S Australian all-rounder)
Jan 8th - Andrej Ocenas, composer
Jan 8th - Butterfly McQueen, [Thelma], Tampa Fla, actress (Gone With the Wind)
Jan 9th - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
Jan 9th - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
Jan 10th - Jan Boon, [Tjalie Robinson], Dutch East Indies publicist (Tong Tong)
Jan 11th - Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
Jan 11th - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
Jan 13th - Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, premier (Queensland)
Jan 14th - George Amadee Tremblay, composer
Jan 14th - Helmut Degen, composer
Jan 14th - Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
Jan 15th - Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
Jan 15th - Wim Kan, Dutch cabaretier
Jan 16th - Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar
Jan 16th - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
Jan 16th - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
Jan 17th - Hermann Pfrogner, Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus)
Jan 17th - Luis W Alvarez, US, physicist (sub atomic, Nobel 1968) [or Jun 13]
Jan 18th - Gabor Darvas, composer
Jan 21st - Stanley William Reed, cineaste
Jan 22nd - Bruno Kreisky, Austria, bandleader/chancellor (1970-83)
Jan 22nd - Roberto Garcia Morillo, composer
Jan 23rd - Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer
Jan 24th - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, US, sci-fi author (Judgment Night)
Jan 25th - Julia Frances Smith, composer
Jan 26th - Norbert Schultze, composer
Jan 26th - Polykarp Kusch, US, nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955
Jan 27th - Benay Venuta, SF California, actress (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister)
Jan 27th - George Pope, cricketer (Eng pace bowler, 1-49 & 0-36 in his only Test)
Jan 29th - George Burns, British major-general
Jan 29th - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
Jan 30th - Alexander George Ogston, biochemist
Jan 30th - Hugh Marlowe, Phila Pa, actor (Ellery Queen)
Jan 30th - Roy Eldridge, Pitts Pa, jazz trumpeter (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw)
Jan 30th - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
Jan 31st - A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford)
Jan 31st - Christina Foyle, book seller
Jan 31st - Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
Feb 2nd - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer
Feb 2nd - Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish tenor
Feb 3rd - Jehan [Ariste] Alain, French organist/composer
Feb 3rd - Jesse Thomas, blues singer
Feb 3rd - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
Feb 6th - A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for South Africa 30's)
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan (Feb 6th) Feb 6th - Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th pres (R) (1981-89)
Feb 8th - Anne Aitken, [nee Hopkins], Chicago, co-found (Diamond Sangha)
Feb 8th - Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956)
Feb 8th - Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer
Feb 9th - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord
Feb 9th - William Darby, American WWII Army officer (d. 1945)
Feb 11th - Alec Cairncross, chancellor (Glasgow U)
Feb 12th - Charles Mathiesen, Norway, 1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
Feb 12th - Frank Hercules, writer
Feb 12th - Sylvstre A Guzman Fernandez, president (Dominican Republic)
Feb 12th - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
Feb 13th - Jean Muir Fullarton, actress
Feb 14th - Florence Rice, Cleveland OH, actress (Double Wedding, Riding on Air)
Feb 14th - Willem J Kolff, Dutch/US internist/inventor (Artificial Kidney)
Feb 15th - Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW)
Feb 16th - Hal Porter, Australia, writer (Tilted Cross, Paper Chase)
Feb 17th - Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising)
Feb 19th - Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
Feb 19th - Nikola Hercigonja, composer
Feb 20th - Margot Grahame
Feb 20th - Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
Feb 22nd - Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
Feb 23rd - G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Sup Court Justice/(Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60)
Feb 23rd - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic
Feb 24th - Konrad Lechner, composer
Feb 26th - Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia MP chairman
Feb 26th - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
Feb 28th - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
Mar 1st - Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster
Mar 2nd - William Hansen, WA, actor (Homebodies)
Mar 3rd - Francesco Siciliani, opera composer
Mar 3rd - Jean Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier], KS, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8)
Mar 3rd - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)
Mar 5th - Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba)
Mar 6th - Charles Frank, physicist
Mar 6th - Roland Jacobi Leich, composer
Mar 7th - Stefan Kisielewski, composer
Mar 8th - Alan Hovhaness, Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
Mar 8th - Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian
Mar 9th - Ramon Campbell Batista, composer
Mar 10th - Warner Anderson, Bkln, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Matthew-Peyton Place)
Mar 11th - Alan Gifford, Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope)
Mar 11th - Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician/historian
Mar 12th - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
Mar 13th - Jose Ardevol, composer
Mar 13th - L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
Mar 14th - Pete Piute, [Morris Kaufman], NYC, comedian (Village Barn)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Jul 5th - "Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince Edward Island, Canada
Nov 4th - Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 75 of 75

Jan 3rd - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
Jan 9th - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer, dies at 57
Jan 9th - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
Jan 15th - Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49
Jan 17th - Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88
Jan 24th - Carl Eilhardt, composer, dies at 67
Jan 24th - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
Jan 26th - Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67
Feb 4th - Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75
Feb 5th - Petrus A Cronjé, Transvaal Boer general, dies
Feb 7th - Harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies
Feb 11th - Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66
Feb 15th - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
Feb 18th - Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Aust v South Africa Test
Feb 20th - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56
Feb 20th - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76
Mar 1st - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
Mar 7th - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68
Mar 13th - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
Mar 13th - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
Mar 20th - Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75
Mar 24th - Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies
Mar 29th - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74
Apr 10th - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer, dies at 35
Apr 13th - George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
Apr 13th - John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
Apr 14th - Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
Apr 14th - Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
Apr 15th - Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies
Apr 25th - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
May 18th - Gustav Mahler, Austr composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50
May 20th - E M Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia 1880, 36 & 0), dies
May 21st - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
May 28th - Stephanus J du Toit, So Afr theologist/journalist (Afr Bond), dies
English Dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert (May 29th) May 29th - William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74
Jun 7th - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
Jun 9th - Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies
Jun 11th - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
Jun 14th - Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70
Jun 18th - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer, dies at 76
Jul 2nd - Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54
Jul 5th - George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
Jul 25th - Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71
Jul 31st - Jack Edwards, cricketer (1888 Ashes tourist), dies
Aug 1st - Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
Aug 5th - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864)
Aug 8th - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
Aug 10th - Carl Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 70
Aug 12th - Jozef Israels, painter, dies
Aug 12th - Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79
Aug 16th - Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68
Aug 21st - W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
Sep 11th - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
Sep 16th - Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies
Sep 18th - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
Sep 21st - Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister, dies
Sep 27th - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
Sep 28th - Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies
Oct 1st - Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77
Oct 5th - Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer, dies at 58
Oct 7th - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
Oct 14th - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
Oct 29th - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
Nov 3rd - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79
Nov 9th - Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
Nov 9th - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
Nov 16th - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
Nov 18th - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
Nov 19th - Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered
Nov 23rd - Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies
Dec 10th - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94
Dec 11th - Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92
Dec 13th - Reg Duff, cricketer (23 Tests for Australia 1902-05, 1317 runs), dies
Dec 18th - Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79
Dec 23rd - Karl L Hoschna, composer, dies at 34