1911 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1911?
- January 2, 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill
- January 3, 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- January 5, 1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world’s second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
- January 18, 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- January 30, 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- February 18, 1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
- March 29, 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- May 30, 1911 – 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.
- May 31, 1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
- July 10, 1911 – The Royal Australian Navy was established by HM King George V of Australia.
- August 14, 1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye’s death.
- September 18, 1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
- October 10, 1911 – The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
- October 23, 1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
- November 1, 1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- December 12, 1911 – Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
- December 29, 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
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