Today in History for September 1911

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 20 of 20

1st - M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
2nd - Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
3rd - 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
4th - Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
9th - 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)
12th - Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0
17th - 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
17th - 25th US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97)
18th - Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
18th - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC
19th - Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
20th - Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
22nd - Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511
23rd - Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
25th - French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
25th - Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
29th - Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode
29th - Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War
29th - Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
29th - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 31 of 31

1st - Komei Abe, composer
1st - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader
2nd - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin)
2nd - Rene Amengual, composer
2nd - Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
3rd - Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
6th - Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary
6th - Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
7th - Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president
9th - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
9th - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
11th - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
13th - Bill Monroe, Rosine Ky, country singer (Blue Moon of Kentucky)
15th - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist
15th - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
16th - Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom)
18th - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
19th - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer
19th - Weldon Hart, composer
Nobel Laureate and Novelist William Golding (19th) 19th - William Golding, Cornwall England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983), (d. 1993)
20th - Frank Devol, Moundsville WV, orchestra leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
20th - Jan Mul, composer
20th - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
23rd - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
24th - Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader
25th - Lionel Henry Nowak, composer
25th - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
26th - Jan F Hampe, pathologist-anatomy (Fabric & Stoflongen)
27th - Peter Muir Doig, politician
28th - Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr, tennis (US Open 1931, 32)/golfer
29th - Reginald Victor Jones, CH, FRS natural philosopher

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

11th - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
16th - Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies
18th - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
21st - Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister, dies
27th - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
28th - Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies