1911 - What happened in 1911 ?

January 1911

Sunday 01:

Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.

Saturday 07:

Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.

Saturday 21:

The first Monte Carlo Rally.

Thursday 26:

Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.

Monday 30:

The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

February 1911

Saturday 18:

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.

March 1911

Tuesday 07:

Revolution in Mexico.

Wednesday 08:

International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.

Saturday 25:

In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

Wednesday 29:

The M1911 semi-automatic handgun designed by John Browning becomes the standard-issue handgun in the United States Army, and is subsequently widely used in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.

May 1911

Thursday 11:

The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Monday 15:

The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.

Tuesday 23:

Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.

Wednesday 24:

The New York Public Library opened.

Tuesday 30:

At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race in his Marmon Wasp.

June 1911

Thursday 15:

Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.

Friday 16:

A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.

Thursday 22:

George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.

July 1911

Monday 24:

Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".

August 1911

Tuesday 08:

Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law will take effect in 1913.

Monday 21:

The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee.

Tuesday 22:

Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered

Tuesday 29:

Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with whites, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

September 1911

Thursday 07:

French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

Monday 11:

Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.

October 1911

Tuesday 10:

Wuchang Uprising which led to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last emperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.

Monday 23:

First use of aircraft in war: an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to survey Turkish lines during the Turco-Italian War.

November 1911

Friday 03:

Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

Sunday 05:

After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

Saturday 11:

Many cities in the 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).

December 1911

Tuesday 12:

The capital of India is shifted to New Delhi from Calcutta (now Kolkata).

Thursday 14:

First expedition reaches the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen

Friday 29:

Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China