Major Events of 1911: Key Historical Moments You Need to Know
Every year brings its own set of pivotal moments that leave a lasting mark on history. From political shifts and technological advancements to cultural breakthroughs, these events shape the world and influence the future. In this comprehensive overview, we’ll explore the most significant occurrences from 1911, highlighting key moments that continue to impact our lives today.
Major Events of 1911 - Historical Moments That Defined the Year
- 01 Jan Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
- 02 Jan Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000.
- 03 Jan US postal savings bank inaugurated.
- 05 Jan Portuguese expel Jesuits.
- 07 Jan Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam.
- 10 Jan Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified).
- 12 Jan The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- 13 Jan Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay.
- 14 Jan Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
- 15 Jan Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
- 16 Jan Pandora becomes first two-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east.
- 17 Jan Failed assassination attempt on premier Aristide Briand in French Assembly.
- 18 Jan 1st shipboard landing of a plane
- 21 Jan The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
- 26 Jan Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 28 Jan Frenchman Henri Rougier wins first Rally of Monte Carlo.
- 29 Jan Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.
- 30 Jan The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 05 Feb Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam.
- 06 Feb Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople / Istanbul Turkey
- 08 Feb US helps overthrow President Miguel D�vila of Honduras.
- 14 Feb The first official flight of the United States Navy's first airplane, the Curtiss A-1 Triad, takes place.
- 18 Feb The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
- 25 Feb Opera Natoma, premieres in Philadelphia
- 03 Mar First US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri.
- 07 Mar US sends 20,000 troops to Mexican border.
- 08 Mar International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
- 13 Mar Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ontario), 7-4.
- 16 Mar Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ontario) 13-4.
- 18 Mar North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law.
- 19 Mar International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time. First Women's Day celebration took place in 1911, ''The Times of India'', 7 March 2011.
- 20 Mar National Squah Tennis Association formed (New York City, New York).
- 25 Mar Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
- 31 Mar The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 garment workers, leading to significant improvements in industrial safety standards.
- 02 Apr The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
- 04 Apr Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball Most Valuable Player.
- 05 Apr Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer.
- 06 Apr During the Battle of Deciq, Dede Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malesori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
- 08 Apr Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- 13 Apr Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames.
- 15 Apr Walter Johnson pitches a record tying four strike outs in an inning.
- 19 Apr 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:21:39.6.
- 27 Apr Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
- 29 Apr Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
- 30 Apr Portugal approves woman suffrage.
- 08 May 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 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland.
- 13 May 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05.
- 15 May Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates.
- 16 May Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey United Kingdom.
- 17 May 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51.
- 18 May President / Dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
- 19 May Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
- 20 May Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 minutes Notts versus Sussex.
- 21 May 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 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row.
- 23 May New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft.
- 24 May Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).
- 25 May Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
- 26 May 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
- 29 May 1st running of Indianapolis 500
- 30 May 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 The ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is launched.
- 03 Jun Come Josephine in My Flying Machine hits #1
- 05 Jun Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
- 06 Jun Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified).
- 07 Jun Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City just after a local earthquake.
- 08 Jun Belgium government of Schollaert falls
- 10 Jun Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
- 11 Jun UNIA founded by Garvey
- 15 Jun Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
- 16 Jun In Kilbourn, Wisconsin, USA a meteorite strikes a barn.
- 17 Jun Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
- 20 Jun NAACP incorporates (New York).
- 22 Jun King George V of England crowned.
- 24 Jun 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago Golf Club - Illinois
- 26 Jun Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph).
- 28 Jun Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
- 29 Jun Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes Premier
- 30 Jun Adolphe Messimy appointed French Minister of War
- 01 Jul German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
- 03 Jul Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
- 04 Jul Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 and ends a 40 game hit streak.
- 07 Jul 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby
- 08 Jul Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
- 14 Jul Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, is greeted by President Taft after he lands his aeroplane on the South Lawn of the White House, having flown from Boston.[21]
- 17 Jul Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
- 20 Jul Generals Henry Wilson / Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
- 24 Jul Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, ''the Lost City of the Incas''.
- 28 Jul The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY departed London.
- 29 Jul Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits Saint Louis Browns, 5-0.
- 31 Jul Hungarian education is only taught in German
- 01 Aug Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
- 08 Aug Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
- 10 Aug Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords.
- 14 Aug General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti
- 15 Aug Procter and Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
- 19 Aug New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
- 21 Aug The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
- 22 Aug Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
- 23 Aug British Premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
- 24 Aug Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
- 27 Aug Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0.
- 28 Aug 45.7 cm rainfall at St. George, Georgia
- 29 Aug Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- 01 Sep M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km.
- 02 Sep Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
- 03 Sep 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
- 04 Sep Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft).
- 07 Sep French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
- 09 Sep 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)
- 14 Sep Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 17 Sep 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hours 4 minutes
- 18 Sep Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
- 19 Sep Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
- 20 Sep The White Star Line's RMS collides with the British warship HMS .[10]
- 22 Sep Cy Young beats Pittsburgh 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511
- 23 Sep Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
- 24 Sep His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
- 25 Sep Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 29 Sep Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 30 Sep The Austin Dam breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania, United States, killing 78.
- 01 Oct United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
- 05 Oct Italian troops occupy Tripoli
- 06 Oct Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
- 09 Oct An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
- 10 Oct 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 Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto
- 13 Oct Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
- 16 Oct Mexican Revolution: Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz, occupies the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against Madero.
- 19 Oct Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch
- 20 Oct Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St, New York City
- 21 Oct Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
- 23 Oct 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 Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- 25 Oct The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
- 26 Oct Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
- 28 Oct Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks ten singles in a game.
- 30 Oct Clark Griffith is named manager of Washingston Senators
- 01 Nov The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- 03 Nov Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 04 Nov Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
- 05 Nov Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing first transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17).
- 06 Nov Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico.
- 07 Nov The first use of a motion picture camera in a courtroom occurs during the trial of Harry K. Thaw.
- 10 Nov Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp
- 15 Nov Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins
- 17 Nov 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 New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
- 20 Nov Gustav Mahlers Tie Song of the Erde premieres in Munich
- 23 Nov Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital.
- 25 Nov 3rd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
- 27 Nov Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
- 28 Nov Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
- 01 Dec The first use of a radio broadcast to cover a naval battle occurs during the Italo-Turkish War.
- 07 Dec National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria.
- 09 Dec A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 10 Dec Calbraith Rogers completes first crossing of US by airplane (84 days).
- 12 Dec Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
- 14 Dec South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
- 18 Dec Opening of first exhibition by Der Blaue Reiter group of painters, in Munich.
- 27 Dec "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
- 29 Dec San Francisco Symphony is formed.
- 30 Dec Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China
- 31 Dec Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize.
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