April 1911 calendar

Events

• 02 Apr 1911 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
• 04 Apr 1911 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball Most Valuable Player.
• 05 Apr 1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer.
• 06 Apr 1911 During the Battle of Deciq, Dede Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malesori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
• 08 Apr 1911 Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
• 13 Apr 1911 Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames.
• 15 Apr 1911 Walter Johnson pitches a record tying four strike outs in an inning.
• 19 Apr 1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:21:39.6.
• 27 Apr 1911 Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
• 30 Apr 1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage.

Famous Birthday

• Emil Cioran

  Romanian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1995).

• Hervé Bazin

  French novelist and author of great popularity whose witty and satirical novels often focused on the problems within families and marriages.

• Simone Simon

  French actress, famed for Marc Allegret's "Lac Aux Dames.

• Jack Ruby

  American businessman, the owner of a striptease joint in Dallas.

• Luise Rinser

  German writer and educator, a novelist and essayist.

• Elisabeth Barbier

  French writer, the author of the most popular saga after WW II, "Les gens de Mogador.

• Andrée Tainsy

  Belgian actress.

• Lee Falk

  American director producer and playwright (d. 1999).

• Paul Coste-Floret

  French politician, professor and assistant prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunal.

• Georges Dargaud

  French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78.

• Freddie Miller

  American boxer.

• Joseph Harold Rush
• Kathryn Lewis

  American noted family, the daughter of labor leader John L. Lewis and a prominent labor leader in her own right.

• Alfred Coste-Floret

  French politician and lawyer.

• Maurice Schumann

  French politician and writer, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister under President Georges Pompidou from 1969-1973.

• William Ross Baron Ross of Marnock
• Stanisława Walasiewicz
• Christine McIntyre

  American actress of "Three Stooges" fame.

• Ronald Neame

  English-American director cinematographer producer and screenwriter (d. 2010).

• Martin Denny

  American pianist and composer (d. 2005).

• See more

Famous Deaths

• George Washington Glick

  American politician (Born 1827).

• Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis composer

  dies at age 35.

• Georg Knorr German engineer

  dies.

• Henri Elzear Taschereau

  French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (Born 1836).

• Emilio Salgari

  Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers (Swashbuckler is a term that emerged in the 16th century and has been used for rough, noisy...

• Addie Joss

  American baseball player and journalist (d. 1911).

• See more

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Enrico Caruso - Addio (Good-Bye)
2. Arthur Collins - I'm So Tired of Livin', I Don't Care When I Die
3. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Cheer Up, My Honey
4. Arthur Collins - Grizzly Bear
5. Will Oakland - I Love the Name of Mary