1911

For the 1911 model firearm, see M1911

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Years:	1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914

1911 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation - Meteorology - Rail transport - Radio - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Mexico - South Africa
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths

1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel prizes
5 See also

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Events

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January-June

January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia
January 3 - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End.
January 5 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity is founded at Indiana University Bloomington.
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 21 - First Monte Carlo races
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 24 - Denmark abolishes death penalty and flogging
March 25 - Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City - 145 dead
March 29 - United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.
April 6 - Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
April 13 - Mexican revolution - Rebels take Aqua Prieta besides US border. Government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" Lopez is drunk
April 19 - Francisco Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juarez but general Juan J. Navarro refuses his demand of surrender
April 27 - 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.
May 11 - Futurist exhibition in Milan was the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete
May 8 - Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission. Government troops surrender May 10
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 17 - Porfirio Diaz is convinced to resign but he does not do it officially
May 21 - Peace treaty between rebels of Madero and government troops in Ciudad Juarez
May 23 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
May 24 - Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City - about 200 dead (official claim only 40)
May 25 - Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz. May 31 he leaves for exile in France
May 30 - The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp'.
June 7 - Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City just after a local earthquake
June 14 - A national seamen's strike begins in Britain.
June 15 - IBM incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in New York
June 16 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn damaging a barn.
June 22- Coronation of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey, London.