Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 - 1911 - 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
See also: Events
- January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia
- January 10 - Major Jimmie Erickson[?] takes the first aerial photograph[?] (over San Diego, California).
- January 18 - Eugene B. Ely[?] lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
- January 26 - Glenn H. Curtiss[?] flies the first successful seaplane[?].
- January 30 - The destroyer USS Terry[?] makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- March 1 - Jose Ordonez[?] is elected President of Uruguay.
- March 8 - International Women's Day[?] is celebrated for the first time
- March 25 - Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City
- May 15 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
- May 23 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
- August 22 - Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre
- October 10 - Birth of Republic of China.
- October 10 - Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada's eighth prime minister.
- December 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
- December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China
- 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica published.
- End of Qing Dynasty in China.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1911 in film
- 1911 in literature
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
- 1911 in music
- 1911 in sports[?]
- January 21 - The first Monte Carlo motor rally[?]
- May 30 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
Births
- January 1 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player
- January 3 - John Sturges[?], director
- January 7 - Butterfly McQueen[?], actress (+ 1995)
- January 22 - Bruno Kreisky[?], Prime Minister of Austria[?] (+ 1990)
- January 29 - Peter von Siemens[?], industrialist (+ 1986)
- February 6 - Ronald Reagan, United States President, actor
- February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1979)
- February 11 - Alec Cairncross[?], chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
- February 19 - Merle Oberon, actress (+ 1979)
- March 3 - Jean Harlow[?], actress (+ 1937)
- March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard, author (+ 1986)
- March 16 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (+ 1979)
- March 24 - Joseph Barbera[?], cartoonist
- March 25 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (+ 1967)
- March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
- March 29 - Brigitte Horney[?], actress (+ 1988)
- April 8 - Emil Cioran[?], Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (+ 1995)
- April 26 - Marianne Hoppe[?], actress
- May 8 - Robert Johnson, Blues guitarist and singer.
- May 11 - Phil Silvers[?], actor, comedian (+ 1985)
- May 15 - Max Frisch[?], author
- May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (+ 1998)
- May 18 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (+ 1985)
- May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt[?], Dutch children books writer
- May 20 - Gardner Fox, writer (+ 1986)
- May 26 - Ben Alexander[?], actor
- May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President and Senator
- May 27 - Teddy Kollek[?], mayor of Jerusalem
- May 27 - Vincent Price, actor (+ 1993)
- May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder[?], author (+ 1986)
- July 4 - Mitch Miller[?], singer, television personality
- July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (+ 2003)
- June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
- July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author
- October 14 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (+ 1990)
- September 9 - John Gorton, Australian Prime Minister
- December 3 - Nino Rota, composer
- December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.
- C. L. Moore - science fiction and fantasy writer.
Deaths
- February 11 - Albert von Rothschild[?], Austrian baron and banker.
- May 18 - Gustav Mahler, composer
- May 29 - William S. Gilbert, Dramatist
- October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist
Science
- Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments.
- Onnes[?] discovers superconductivity.
- Physics - Wilhelm Wien
- Chemistry - Marie Sklodowska-Curie
- Medicine - Allvar Gullstrand
- Literature - Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
- Peace - Tobias Michael Carel Asser[?] Alfred Hermann Fried[?]
See also: M1911
Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)
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