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

Events 1 - 24 of 24

1st - Belgian Mining law introduces 9½ hour work day
1st - South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government
2nd - Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
3rd - US postal savings bank inaugurated
5th - Portuguese expel Jesuits
5th - San Francisco has its first air meet
7th - 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
7th - Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
10th - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
10th - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
10th - Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
12th - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
13th - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
13th - Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
13th - South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide
16th - Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
17th - Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
17th - Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC
18th - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann 26th - Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
26th - Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
28th - Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
30th - 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
31st - Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site