1911 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1911?
- January 3, 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 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 29, 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- April 2, 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country’s first national census.
- April 8, 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- May 9, 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
- 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.
- August 21, 1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
- September 1, 1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
- September 7, 1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
- October 10, 1911 – The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
- 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 1, 1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- November 17, 1911 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington,DC.
- December 10, 1911 – The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.
- December 12, 1911 – King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India.
- December 29, 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
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