Notable Historical Events - 1911
1911 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Belgian Mining law introduces 9½ hour work day |
Jan 1 |
South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government |
Jan 2 |
Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 |
Jan 3 |
US postal savings bank inaugurated |
Jan 3 |
The Government of India announces that emigration to Natal, Southern Africa, is prohibited with effect from 1 July |
Jan 5 |
Portuguese expel Jesuits |
Jan 5 |
San Francisco has its first air meet |
Jan 7 |
1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF |
Jan 7 |
Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam |
Jan 10 |
1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego |
Jan 10 |
Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) |
Jan 10 |
Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214 |
Jan 12 |
The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees. |
Jan 13 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin |
Jan 13 |
Roald Amundsen anchors at Walvis Bay, southwestern Africa |
Jan 13 |
South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide |
Jan 16 |
Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east |
Jan 17 |
Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly |
Jan 17 |
Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC |
Jan 18 |
1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) |
Jan 26 |
Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego |
Jan 26 |
Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden |
Jan 28 |
Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo |
Jan 30 |
1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba |
Jan 31 |
Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site |
Feb 5 |
Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam |
Feb 6 |
1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona |
Feb 6 |
Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) |
Feb 8 |
US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras |
Feb 17 |
1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego) |
Feb 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. |
Feb 21 |
Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique) |
Feb 22 |
The Canadian Parliament resolves to maintain union with the British Empire, while controlling domestic fiscal affairs |
Feb 24 |
Japan and the US conclude a treaty that continues restrictions on Japanese laborers |
Feb 25 |
Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia |
Mar 3 |
1st US federal cemetery with Union & Confederate graves opens, Missouri |
Mar 4 |
Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US |
Mar 7 |
US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border |
Mar 7 |
Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker |
Mar 8 |
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 13 |
Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in NYC |
Mar 13 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont) 7-4 |
Mar 13 |
The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax |
Mar 16 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4 |
Mar 18 |
North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law |
Mar 20 |
National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC) |
Mar 20 |
Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC |
Mar 25 |
L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay |
Mar 25 |
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls |
Mar 30 |
Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed |
Apr 3 |
Harry James Smith's "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh" premieres in NYC |
Apr 4 |
Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP |
Apr 5 |
MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie |
Apr 5 |
Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer |
Apr 12 |
1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m) |
Apr 13 |
Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames |
Apr 13 |
The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy |
Apr 15 |
Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC |
Apr 15 |
Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning |
Apr 19 |
15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6 |
Apr 19 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play" premieres in London |
Apr 27 |
Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the United States Senate. |
Apr 27 |
Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi. |
Apr 30 |
Portugal approves female suffrage |
May 2 |
French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco |
May 9 |
Fire breaks out at Empire Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland |
May 11 |
The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
May 12 |
American economic expert W Morgan Schuster arrives by invitation to assume almost dictatorial power over Persia's finances; a move resented by Russia |
May 13 |
37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05 |
May 13 |
NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st) |
May 15 |
British House of Commons accept Parliament Bill |
May 15 |
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates |
May 15 |
Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act) |
May 15 |
The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece. |
May 16 |
Remains of a neanderthal man found on Jersey, Channel Islands |
May 16 |
Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf |
May 17 |
36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51 |
May 18 |
Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends |
May 19 |
Maurice Ravel's opera "L'Heure Espagnole" premieres in Paris |
May 19 |
Phila Athletics are 12½ games back in AL, & will win World Series |
May 20 |
Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts v Sussex |
May 21 |
French troop enter Fez in Morocco to quell anti-European agitation |
May 22 |
Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row |
May 23 |
NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft |
May 25 |
Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz |
May 26 |
Germany passes legislation organizing Alsace and Lorraine as an autonomous state with a legislature |
May 30 |
1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH) |
May 31 |
R.M.S. Titanic launched, Belfast |
Jun 1 |
1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ |
Jun 3 |
"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1 |
Jun 5 |
Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win |
Jun 6 |
Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) |
Jun 8 |
Belgium government of Schollaert falls |
Jun 10 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam |
Jun 11 |
Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15 |
Jun 11 |
Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Marcus Garvey |
Jun 11 |
The Greek national assembly adopts a more liberal constitution |
Jun 15 |
Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated. |
Jun 16 |
A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. |
Jun 17 |
Belgium government of De Broqueville forms |
Jun 20 |
NAACP incorporates (NY) |
Jun 22 |
King George V crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea. |
Jun 24 |
17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill |
Jun 26 |
Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph) |
Jun 28 |
Joseph Caillaux forms government in France |
Jun 29 |
Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes Minister-President of Austria |
Jun 30 |
Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War |
Jun 30 |
US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes |
Jul 1 |
Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" (by the Grace of God) from Canadian coins |
Jul 1 |
The German gunboat 'Panther' arrives off Agadir allegedly to protect German interests and nationals in Morocco |
Jul 3 |
Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day |
Jul 4 |
105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record) |
Jul 4 |
106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record) |
Jul 4 |
White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak as Cobb goes 0 for 4 |
Jul 7 |
28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (6-0 6-0) |
Jul 7 |
Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record |
Jul 8 |
Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse |
Jul 8 |
35th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Anthony Wilding beats H Roper-Barrett (6-4 4-6 2-6 6-2) |
Jul 10 |
105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record) |
Jul 13 |
Great Britain and Japan renew their alliance of 1902 for another four years; the reason Japan joins WWI on the Allies side |
Jul 14 |
46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines |
Jul 15 |
46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines |
Jul 17 |
Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army |
Jul 20 |
Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0 |
Jul 20 |
Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany |
Jul 24 |
Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas |
Jul 24 |
Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3 |
Jul 28 |
96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt Netherlands |
Jul 29 |
Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0 |
Jul 31 |
Hungarian education is only taught in German |
Aug 1 |
Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point |
Aug 1 |
Transportation workers begin a major strike in England; part of a wave of industrial unrest |
Aug 2 |
Haiti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica |
Aug 8 |
The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire. |
Aug 8 |
Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913. |
Aug 10 |
Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords |
Aug 10 |
The Great Britain, the House of Commons votes on a salary - of £400 annually - for its members |
Aug 14 |
General Leconte appointed temporary pres of Haiti |
Aug 14 |
United States Senate leaders begin to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death. |
Aug 15 |
Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening |
Aug 19 |
NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times |
Aug 22 |
Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913) |
Aug 23 |
British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany |
Aug 24 |
Manuel d'Arriaga elected first president of Portugal |
Aug 27 |
Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0 |
Aug 28 |
45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record) |
Aug 29 |
Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. |
Aug 31 |
Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip" |
Sep 1 |
M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km |
Sep 2 |
Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government |
Sep 3 |
31st US Men's Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (6-4 6-4 6-2) |
Sep 4 |
Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) |
Sep 9 |
1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England) |
Sep 12 |
Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0 |
Sep 14 |
Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime has been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents |
Sep 17 |
1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min |
Sep 17 |
25th US Women's Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 6-1 9-7) |
Sep 18 |
Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown |
Sep 18 |
Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC |
Sep 19 |
Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights |
Sep 20 |
Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header |
Sep 21 |
Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier loses the election to Robert Bordon of the Conservative Party |
Sep 22 |
Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511 |
Sep 23 |
Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot |
Sep 25 |
French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed |
Sep 25 |
Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park |
Sep 29 |
Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode |
Sep 29 |
Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War |
Sep 29 |
Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning |
Sep 29 |
Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. |
Oct 1 |
United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day |
Oct 4 |
1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station) |
Oct 5 |
Italian troops occupy Tripoli |
Oct 6 |
Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot |
Oct 6 |
Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game |
Oct 10 |
Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day) |
Oct 10 |
The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton. |
Oct 10 |
Robert Borden becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Canada |
Oct 11 |
Ty Cobb (AL) & Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto |
Oct 14 |
Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379) |
Oct 19 |
Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch |
Oct 20 |
Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC |
Oct 20 |
Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole |
Oct 21 |
RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah" premieres in NYC |
Oct 21 |
Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union |
Oct 24 |
Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole |
Oct 24 |
Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. |
Oct 25 |
London's last horse drawn omnibus made its way from London Bridge Station to Moorgate |
Oct 26 |
Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series |
Oct 28 |
Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game |
Oct 30 |
Clark Griffith is named manager of Wash Senators |
Nov 3 |
Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. |
Nov 4 |
France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo |
Nov 5 |
Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica |
Nov 5 |
Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17) |
Nov 6 |
Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico |
Nov 10 |
Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation (for scholarly & charitable works) |
Nov 10 |
Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath) |
Nov 11 |
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). |
Nov 11 |
Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control |
Nov 15 |
Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins |
Nov 18 |
Britain's first seaplane flies |
Nov 18 |
Opera "Lobetanz" first American performance |
Nov 19 |
NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy |
Nov 20 |
Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (Song of the Earth) premieres in Munich |
Nov 20 |
The funeral of Paul and Laura (daughter of Karl Marx) Lafargue in Paris is attended by Lenin; the two socialists died in a suicide pact in the belief that their political usefulness was at an end |
Nov 23 |
Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital |
Nov 25 |
3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7 |
Nov 27 |
Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US |
Nov 28 |
Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico |
Dec 7 |
Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC |
Dec 7 |
Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver & Victoria |
Dec 10 |
Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days) |
Dec 10 |
Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace |
Dec 12 |
Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. |
Dec 14 |
South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen |
Dec 23 |
Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire" premieres in Munich |
Dec 23 |
Opera "I Gioielli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin) |
Dec 25 |
Edward Knoblock's "Kismet" premieres in NYC |
Dec 29 |
Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins |
Dec 29 |
SF Symphony formed |
Dec 29 |
Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China. |
Dec 29 |
Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty. |
Dec 30 |
Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Aust at MCG |
Dec 30 |
Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China |
Dec 31 |
Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize |
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