1911 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1911?
- 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 14, 1911 – Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
- 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 21, 1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
- January 30, 1911 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- March 8, 1911 – 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.
- April 6, 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
- May 9, 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
- June 16, 1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- June 22, 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- July 1, 1911 – Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- July 24, 1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
- September 29, 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- October 24, 1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- November 5, 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- December 9, 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- December 12, 1911 – Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
- December 14, 1911 – Roald Amundsen’s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
- December 29, 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
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