May 1911 calendar

Events

• 08 May 1911 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission the government troops surrender on May 10.
• 09 May 1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland.
• 13 May 1911 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05.
• 15 May 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates.
• 16 May 1911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey United Kingdom.
• 17 May 1911 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51.
• 18 May 1911 President / Dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
• 19 May 1911 Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
• 20 May 1911 Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 minutes Notts versus Sussex.
• 21 May 1911 Mexican President Porfirio Diaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
• 22 May 1911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row.
• 23 May 1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft.
• 24 May 1911 Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).
• 25 May 1911 Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
• 26 May 1911 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
• 29 May 1911 1st running of Indianapolis 500
• 30 May 1911 At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
• 31 May 1911 The ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is launched.

Famous Birthday

• Vincent Price

  American actor and author who was best known for elegantly sophisticated horror roles.

• Guy des Cars
• Robert Johnson

  US Delta-blues singer / guitarist, poisoned at 27.

• Maureen O'Sullivan

  Irish-American actress and singer (d. 1998).

• Zoë Fontana

  Italian fashion designer, founded the house of Haute Couture, Sorelle Fontana, in Rome, 1946 with her two younger sisters, Micol and...

• Michel Pécheux (fencer)
• Hubert Humphrey

  American politician who served as Vice-President of the United States from 1965-1969 under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

• André Gravier
• Jean-Pierre Lévy

  French head of one of the three major French resistance movements in World War II, Franc-Tireur.

• Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
• Max Frisch

  Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II.

• Thora Hird

  English actress, who initially she made regular appearances in films, before gaining her highest profile in television comedy, notably the...

• Peter Hurkos

  Dutch psychic who gained ESP abilities after a blow to the head on 7/10/1941, which left him unconscious for three days.

• Maurice Allais

  French economist and physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010).

• Armida (actress)
• Gilles Grangier

  French film director and screenwriter.

• Maurice Nadeau

  French centenarian, writer and editor.

• René Cloërec
• Ondine Tharp

  American minister educated only in fundamentalist Christian theology, Tharp was unacceptable as a female minister in the more comfortable...

• Maurice Baquet

  French actor, cellist and mountaineer, who died on 8 July 2005 in Noisy-le-Grand, France.

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Famous Deaths

• Stephanus J du Toit South African theologist/journalist (African Bond)

  dies.

• William Schwenck Gilbert England

  writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at age 74.

• Frederick August Otto Schwarz

  American entrepreneur (Born 1836).

• W S Gilbert

  English dramatist (Born 1836).

• Milton Bradley

  American game pioneer (Born 1836).

• Williamina Fleming

  Scottish-American astronomer and academic (d. 1911).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Byron G. Harlan - Think It Over, Mary
2. Arthur Clough - Let Me Call You Sweetheart
3. Victor Light Opera Co. - Gems from The Pirates of Penzance
4. Elizabeth Wheeler - Oh, That We Two Were Maying
5. Ada Jones & Billy Murray & American Quartet - Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine