Today in History for November 1911

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 17 of 17

3rd - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
4th - France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo
5th - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica
5th - Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
6th - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
10th - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
10th - Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
11th - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
15th - Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins
18th - Britain's 1st seaplane flies
18th - Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
19th - NY receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
20th - Gustav Mahler's &quot;Das Lied von der Erde&quot; (Song of the Earth) premieres in Munich
23rd - Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
25th - 3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
27th - Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
28th - Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 34 of 34

1st - Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
2nd - Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1979)
2nd - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
3rd - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
4th - Jack Rose, screenwriter
4th - Ssamu Shimizu, composer
5th - Roy Rogers, Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
7th - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
9th - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
10th - Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
11th - Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], Horsforth, Yorkshire, English actor (Chisum, Arnold, Mutiny)
12th - Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates)
12th - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
12th - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
13th - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (d. 2006)
17th - Charles Walters, US, actor/choreographer/director (Easter parade)
17th - Nobutaka Shikanai, Japans media CEO (Fujisankei Com Group)
17th - William Tannen, NYC, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull)
17th - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
18th - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
20th - Jean Shiley, US, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1932)
23rd - Peter Saunders, English theater producer (Legend of the Werewolf)
24th - Kirby Grant, Butte Mont, actor (Sky King)
24th - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter
24th - Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
25th - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
26th - Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
26th - Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire
26th - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy
27th - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix/Kuifje)
27th - Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
28th - Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
29th - Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy
30th - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

4th - Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

3rd - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79
9th - Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
9th - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
16th - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
18th - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
19th - Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered
23rd - Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies