1911

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1908
  • 1909
  • 1910
  • 1911
  • 1912
  • 1913
  • 1914
1911 in various
Minguo calendar
1 before ROC
民前1年
Nanakshahi calendar443
Thai solar calendar2453–2454
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
2037 or 1656 or 884
    — to —
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
2038 or 1657 or 885

1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

A notable ongoing event was the

race for the South Pole
.

Sketch by Marguerite Martyn of 1911 women's fashion styles
January 3: Siege of Sidney Street in London

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

A
July 24: Machu Picchu rediscovered

August

September

October

November

December 14: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
Franz Marc, Blaues Pferd I, 1911
  • November 1 – The world's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
  • November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T.
  • November 4 – Morocco–Congo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
  • November 5 – Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25, 1912).
  • November 17 – Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.

December

Date unknown

Births

January

Hank Greenberg
Zenkō Suzuki
Eduardo Frei Montalva
Danny Kaye
Bruno Kreisky
Polykarp Kusch

February

Ronald Reagan
Elizabeth Bishop
Merle Oberon

March

Jean Harlow
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Alfonso García Robles
Joseph Barbera
Tennessee Williams

April

Hédi Amara Nouira
Feodor Lynen
Melvin Calvin
Józef Cyrankiewicz

May

Big Joe Turner
Vincent Price
Maurice Allais

June

Luis Walter Alvarez
Wilbert Awdry
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
Bernard Herrmann
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Czesław Miłosz
Pablo Gomez Sarino

July

Gian Carlo Menotti
John Archibald Wheeler
Ginger Rogers
Yang Jiang
Marshall McLuhan
José María Lemus

August

Lucille Ball
Thanom Kittikachorn
Cantinflas
Mikhail Botvinnik

September

Todor Zhivkov
Sir John Gorton
Konstantin Chernenko

October

Joe Rosenthal
Ashok Kumar
Lê Đức Thọ

November

Odysseas Elytis
Jorge Negrete

December

Broderick Crawford
Naguib Mahfouz
Trygve Haavelmo
Hans von Ohain
Niels Kaj Jerne

Deaths

January

Marcelina Darowska
Sir Francis Galton

February

Saint Giuditta Vannini
Alice Morse Earle

March

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dragan Tsankov

April

George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

May

Gustav Mahler
Baron Dezső Bánffy

June

Maurice Rouvier

July

George Johnstone Stoney
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg

August

Konrad Duden
Mahbub Ali Khan

September

Pyotr Stolypin

October

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
Antonio Borrero
José López Domínguez

November

Christian Lundeberg
Ramón Cáceres
Nikola Hristić

December

Vassily Maximov
Emilio Estrada Carmona

Nobel Prizes

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