September 1911 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km.
• 02 Sep 1911 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
• 03 Sep 1911 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
• 04 Sep 1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft).
• 07 Sep 1911 French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
• 09 Sep 1911 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)
• 17 Sep 1911 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hours 4 minutes
• 18 Sep 1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
• 19 Sep 1911 Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
• 22 Sep 1911 Cy Young beats Pittsburgh 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511
• 23 Sep 1911 Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
• 25 Sep 1911 Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 29 Sep 1911 Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 30 Sep 1911 The Austin Dam breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania, United States, killing 78.

Famous Birthday

• Alfred Naujocks

  German Chief of the Nazi Intelligence Service of the SS, a leading figure in Reinhard Heydrick's Security Service.

• William Golding

  English novelist, playwright, and poet who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies.

• Léa Papin
• William Fisk Harrah
• Roger Arnaldez
• John Gorton

  Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia 1/10/1968 to 1971.

• Jean de Beer
• Bill Monroe

  Rosine, Kentucky -- Country singer (Blue Moon of Kentucky).

• Nicole Vedrès

  French film director and journalist.

• Edmund L Hartmann
• Auguste Lecoeur
• Romare Bearden

  American painter and author (d. 1988).

• Allan Pettersson
• Nelly Omar
• Gustave Gilbert
• Fred Moore (animator)
• Sir William Golding

  English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993).

• Todor C Zjivkov

  Bulgaria -- Partizan / Premier / President.

• Eileen Way

  Actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin).

• Bentley Bridgewater

  British Museum Secretary.

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Famous Deaths

• Arab Pasha

  "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister.

• Louis Pincoffs

  Businessman / Dutch politician 1st-Chamber.

• Louis Henri Boussenard

  French novelist (Born 1847).

• Auguste Michel-Levy

  French geologist (Born 1844).

• Pyotr Stolypin

  Russian politician (Born 1862).

• Edward Whymper

  English-French mountaineer explorer author and illustrator (d. 1911).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. John McCormack - Kathleen Mavourneen
2. John McCormack - Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms
3. Ada Jones & Walter Van Brunt - All Alone
4. Elizabeth Spencer - My Beautiful Lady
5. Alma Gluck - My Laddie