1911 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1911?
- January 1, 1911 – Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
- 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 30, 1911 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- May 15, 1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
- May 31, 1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
- June 16, 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- June 22, 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- July 7, 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
- August 29, 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- October 10, 1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
- 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 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 27, 1911 – “Jana Gana Mana,” the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
- 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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