July 1911 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1911 German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
• 03 Jul 1911 Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
• 04 Jul 1911 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 and ends a 40 game hit streak.
• 07 Jul 1911 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby
• 08 Jul 1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
• 17 Jul 1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
• 20 Jul 1911 Generals Henry Wilson / Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
• 24 Jul 1911 Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, ''the Lost City of the Incas''.
• 29 Jul 1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits Saint Louis Browns, 5-0.
• 31 Jul 1911 Hungarian education is only taught in German

Famous Birthday

• Georges Pompidou

  French politician, the Premier 1962-1968 under President De Gaulle.

• Ginger Rogers

  American dancer and actress, a glamour queen swathed in chic with a firm gaze, strong stride and down-home vowels.

• Marshall McLuhan

  Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at age 69 (born 1911).

• Jean Fournier

  French violinist who died on 9 July 2003 in Caen.

• Terry-Thomas

  British actor, comedian (Born 1911).

• Laverne Andrews
• Jacques Isorni
• Hume Cronyn

  Canadian-American actor producer and screenwriter (d. 2003).

• Carveth Wells

  British poet, journalist and traveler who led a comparatively short life packed with adventure.

• Michel Mollat du Jourdin

  French educator, Ph.

• Peter van Eyck
• John Archibald Wheeler
• Mervyn Peake

  British artist, illustrator, author, poet, and playwright.

• Gian Carlo Menotti
• Raymond Edward Johnson
• Leo Guild

  American writer of fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks, mysteries, sex and shock, radio scripts and TV presentations.

• Elmo Mays

  American minister and spiritualist reverend who was reputed to be clairvoyant, clairaudient and able to levitate on occasion.

• Mitch Miller

  American singer and producer (d. 2010).

• Ben Eastman
• John Lautner
• See more

Famous Deaths

• Filippo Capocci

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Felix Mottl

  Composer, dies at 54.

• George J Stoney

  Irish physicist, dies at 85.

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins - Steamboat Bill
2. John McCormack - Mother Machree
3. Reed Miller - Tell Her I Love Her So
4. Reinald Werrenrath & Elizabeth Wheeler - Two Little Love Bees
5. Vess Ossman - The Smiler