October 1911 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1911 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
• 05 Oct 1911 Italian troops occupy Tripoli
• 06 Oct 1911 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
• 09 Oct 1911 An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
• 10 Oct 1911 The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
• 11 Oct 1911 Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto
• 16 Oct 1911 Mexican Revolution: Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz, occupies the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against Madero.
• 19 Oct 1911 Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch
• 20 Oct 1911 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St, New York City
• 21 Oct 1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
• 23 Oct 1911 First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
• 24 Oct 1911 Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• 26 Oct 1911 Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
• 28 Oct 1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks ten singles in a game.
• 30 Oct 1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washingston Senators

Famous Birthday

• Mahalia Jackson

  New Orleans, Louisiana -- Gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands).

• René Hardy

  French member of the Resistance during World War II.

• Félix Lévitan
• Jean Davy

  French film, stage and voice actor.

• Aguigui Mouna
• Charles Jayne

  American astrologer, a noted siderealist, eclipse expert and author.

• Clare Hollingworth

  English journalist and author.

• Louis de Guiringaud
• Jean-Paul de Rocca-Serra
• Fletcher Knebel

  American novelist.

• Flann O'Brien

  Irish humorist (Born 1911).

• Vaughn Monroe

  American singer, musician and bandleader of the ‘40s.

• Michael Hordern

  Hertfordshire, England -- Actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun).

• Sonny Terry

  American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986).

• Charles Ehrmann
• George Lennon

  Scottish physician, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and author of "Diagnosis in Clinical Obstetrics," Married, he has two children.

• Bernard Zehrfuss

  French architect and chief Architect of public buildings and national palaces.

• Will Rogers Jr

  (Rep-D) / actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81.

• Raymond Latarjet

  French biologist and Radiobiologist.

• Maribel Vinson
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Famous Deaths

• Charles-Theodore Malherbe

  Composer, dies at 58.

• John Hughlings Jackson

  English neurologist (Born 1835).

• John Marshall Harlan

  American Supreme Court Justice (Born 1833).

• Alfred Binet

  French psychologist (Born 1857).

• Wilhelm Dilthey

  German philosopher and social scientist, probably the key figure in the "idealist" tradition of modern social thought.

• Joseph Pulitzer

  Hungarian-American publisher.

• Jack Daniel

  American Distiller and the founder of 's Tennessee whiskey distillery (Born 1846 or 1850).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Lyric Quartet - For Every Boy Who's Lonely, There's a Girl Who's Lonely
2. Victor Herbert & His Orchestra - Naughty Marietta Selection
3. American Quartet - Dance of the Grizzly Bear
4. Henry Burr & Elise Stevenson - When You're in Town
5. Henry Burr & Elise Stevenson - Save Up Your Kisses for a Rainy Day