November 1911 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1911 The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
• 03 Nov 1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
• 04 Nov 1911 Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
• 05 Nov 1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing first transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17).
• 06 Nov 1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico.
• 10 Nov 1911 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp
• 15 Nov 1911 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins
• 17 Nov 1911 The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at an historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
• 19 Nov 1911 New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
• 20 Nov 1911 Gustav Mahlers Tie Song of the Erde premieres in Munich
• 23 Nov 1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital.
• 25 Nov 1911 3rd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
• 27 Nov 1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
• 28 Nov 1911 Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico

Famous Birthday

• Odysseas Elytis

  Greek poet and critic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996).

• Henri Troyat

  French historian and author (d. 2007).

• Roberto Matta

  Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2002).

• Roy Rogers

  American entertainer, a leading cowboy motion picture star of the '30s who, as a straight-shooter, sang his way into the hearts of fans...

• Samuel Reshevsky

  Polish-American chess player and author (d. 1992).

• Léon Cuffaut

  French aviator.

• Harry Andrews

  Kent, England -- Actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha).

• Christian Fouchet

  French politician, a Gaullist government official since joining de Gaulle's Free France Movement in London, 1940.

• Chad Varah
• Giuseppe Olmo

  Italian cyclist who won Gold Medals in the bicycling event of the Los Angeles Olympics, 1932.

• Pierre Uri

  French economist who played a key role in developing the Treaty of Rome.

• Mario Lago
• Gaston de Bonneval
• Luc Estang
• Louis Casamayor
• Buck Clayton

  American jazz trumpet player who was a leading member of Count Basie’s "Old Testament" orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam...

• Robert Marchand (cycling)
• Savino Guglielmetti

  Italian pro gymnast, the winner of a Gold Medal in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932.

• Henri Védrines
• Jacques Chevallier

  French liberal pied noir mayor of Algiers who governed the city at the head of a coalition of pied noir and Moslem representatives.

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Famous Deaths

• Salvador Giner y Vidal

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Edmund Schuecker

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Ramon Caceres

  President (Dominican Republic), murdered.

• A A Ames

  American politician (Born 1842).

• Alfred Binet

  French experimental psychologist who developed IQ tests.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Eddie Morton - Oceana Roll
2. Grace Kerns - My Beautiful Lady
3. Peerless Quartet (Columbia Male Quartet) - Jimmy Valentine
4. Victor Light Opera Co. - Gems from The Fortune Teller
5. Peerless Quartet (Columbia Male Quartet) - Let Me Call You Sweetheart