August 1911

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August 21, 1911:The Mona Lisa...
August 11, 1911: Britain's House of Lords approves limits on its power with the Parliament Act
...stolen from the Louvre

The following events occurred in August 1911:

August 1, 1911 (Tuesday)

  • Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to receive an airplane pilot's license, and only the second in the world (after Raymonde de Laroche). She was one of only 37 certified pilots in the world at that time.[1]
  • Died: Edwin Austin Abbey, 59, American painter and designer

August 2, 1911 (Wednesday)

August 3, 1911 (Thursday)

  • The United States signed arbitration treaties with both the United Kingdom and France in separate ceremonies at the White House office of U.S. President Taft. At 3:10 pm, British Ambassador James Bryce and U.S. Secretary of State Philander Knox signed the first pact. French Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand and Knox signed the second treaty.[7] Based on the concept of "unlimited arbitration" of disputes between these three great powers, the "Taft-Knox Treaties" were favored by the American public, but the U.S. Senate amended both agreements beyond recognition. Taft refused to renegotiate the terms with the other nations.[8]
  • Allvar Gullstrand first demonstrated the slit lamp. His invention's introduction has been described as "an occasion of tremendous significance to ophthalmology".[9]
  • Born:
    Manuel Esperon, Mexican composer and songwriter, in Mexico City
    (d. 2011)
  • Died:

August 4, 1911 (Friday)

  • Japan's Admiral Count Tōgō Heihachirō, commander of the Japanese fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, was welcomed to New York City as a guest of the United States. After arriving the night before on the Lusitania at 11:40 pm, he transferred to two smaller boats and stayed at the Hotel Knickerbocker. Meeting Mayor William J. Gaynor later in the day, he departed on a train for Washington, D.C. that afternoon, where he was hosted at a state dinner by President Taft.[10]

August 5, 1911 (Saturday)

August 6, 1911 (Sunday)

August 7, 1911 (Monday)

August 8, 1911 (Tuesday)

  • papal decree quam singulari.[16]
  • The first American newsreel, Pathé's Weekly, was shown in North American cinemas. Promotional material described it as "issued every Tuesday, made up of short scenes of great international events of universal interest from all over the world".[17]
  • The United States Senate approved statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, 53-18. Earlier a proposed amendment by Senator Nelson of Minnesota, proposing to condition Arizona statehood on removing judicial recall from its constitution, failed 26-43.[18]
  • Died:
    President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
    , 1896–1911

August 9, 1911 (Wednesday)

August 10, 1911 (Thursday)

  • By a margin of 131-114, the House of Lords passed the Parliament Act 1911, also called the "Veto Bill" because it allowed the United Kingdom House of Commons to put limits on the Lords' power. More than 300 eligible peers declined to participate.[21] However, the 88 Liberal peers were joined in voting in favor by 29 Tories and 13 of the 15 Anglican archbishops and bishops who cast votes. Conservative MP George Wyndham would later remark, "We were beaten by the bishops and the rats."[22]
  • Born:
    A.N. Sherwin-White, British historian; in Fifield, Oxfordshire
    (d. 1993)

August 11, 1911 (Friday)

August 12, 1911 (Saturday)

  • "For a period of one year from and after the date hereof, the landing in Canada shall be, and the same is prohibited, of any immigrants belonging to the Negro race", declared an Order in Council approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier on this date, "which race is deemed unsuitable to the climate and requirements of Canada." The racist order, made in response to hundreds of African-Americans moving to the Canadian prairies from Oklahoma, was never enforced, and repealed on October 5.[25]
  • Duke Kahanamoku broke three world swimming records in his very first meet, in Honolulu. Besides taking 1.6 seconds off of the 50 yard freestyle (to 24.2), he became the first person to swim 100 yards in under a minute, swimming in 55.4 seconds, 4.6 less than the AAU record.[26]
  • Henry Percival James, British Assistant Commissioner of
    Forcados River on government business.[2][27]
  • John Muir set off from Brooklyn to begin a voyage of exploration of the Amazon River.[28]
  • Born: Cantinflas (stage name for Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes), Mexican film comedian; in Mexico City (d. 1993)
  • Died:

August 13, 1911 (Sunday)

  • A lynch mob in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, burned an African-American to death after he was accused of murder. Three men were arrested on August 16. The night before, Zachariah Walker had shot and killed Edgar Rice, a private policeman, then injured himself in a suicide attempt while fleeing. While recovering in custody at the local hospital and restrained to a cot, Rice was seized by an angry mob. A fire was set and Walker, still chained to his hospital bed, was tossed into the flames.[29] Pennsylvania Governor John K. Tener would later say that the charter of Coatesville should be revoked, declaring "Had her officers or her citizens done their duty, the Commonwealth would not have been disgraced and her fair name dishonored."[30]
  • Matilde E. Moisant became the 3rd woman licensed airplane pilot in history. Unlike the first two, Raymonde de la Roche and Harriet Quimby, Moisant avoided death in a plane crash, and would live (until 1964) to the age of 85.[31]
  • Born: William Bernbach, American advertising executive and co-founder of Doyle Dayne Bernbach; in New York City (d. 1982); Bert Combs, reformist Governor of Kentucky and federal appellate court judge, in Manchester, Kentucky (died in accident, 1991)

August 14, 1911 (Monday)

"Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess"
  • Under the Moons of Mars, starting the literary career of Burroughs.[32]
  • Harry Atwood took off from St. Louis at 7:05 in the morning local time to begin a 1,265 mile trip to New York City. Making 20 stops, and logging 28½ hours flying time, he reached New York at 2:38 pm on August 25.[33]
Ethel Payne
  • Born: Ethel L. Payne, African-American journalist who earned the nickname "First Lady of the Black Press" for her tough reporting for the Chicago Defender (d. 1991)

August 15, 1911 (Tuesday)

  • President Taft vetoed the statehood bill for Arizona and New Mexico to the 46-state union. Although the veto was directed at Arizona's judicial recall provision, New Mexico was blocked as well because the two states had been included in the same legislation.[2][34][35]
  • Born: Anthony Salerno, a/k/a "Fat Tony", member of American Mafia and a leader in the Genovese Family, in East Harlem, New York City (d. 1992)
  • Died: Major
    Henry Reed Rathbone, 74, who was present at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and had been stabbed by John Wilkes Booth. Rathbone had been imprisoned at the Hildesheim Asylum for the Criminally Insane after murdering his wife while the American Consul at Hanover.[36]

August 16, 1911 (Wednesday)

August 17, 1911 (Thursday)

  • U.S. President Taft vetoed the Wool Tariff Reform Bill, an amendment to the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act that would have cut the duty on imported wool in half, reducing the cost of clothing to American consumers. The legislation had passed earlier in the week, 206-90 in the House, but only 38-28 in the Senate.[38] A historian would later write that, in making the veto, "Taft deliberately, knowingly committed the sole enduring mistake of his presidency."[39]
  • In Britain, civil unrest across the industrial regions continued with the first national railway strike, beginning with the Llanelli Railway Riots. Six men died during the protests that aimed to improve workers rights.[40]
  • Born:
  • Died: Myrtle Reed, 36, writer of fiction (including Lavender and Old Lace), and cookbooks (as Olive Green); by suicide.

August 18, 1911 (Friday)

August 19, 1911 (Saturday)

August 20, 1911 (Sunday)

  • The New York Times sent the first round-the-world cable message, receiving the text back 16+12 minutes after it was sent.[49]
  • Lincoln Beachey broke the world altitude record, ascending to a height of 11,642 feet, more than 2 miles and more than 3+12 km.[50]
  • Born: Karl Frenzel, German Nazi war criminal who commanded the Sobibor extermination camp; in Zehdenick (died of natural causes, 1996)

August 21, 1911 (Monday)

August 22, 1911 (Tuesday)

  • The former Shah of Persia was routed at Savadkuh with the loss of 300 of his men.[56]
  • In Britain, the Official Secrets Act 1911 was given royal assent, providing heavy penalties for spying, "wrongful communication of information", "harbouring spies" and "attempts to commit offence or incitement to commit offence".[57]

August 23, 1911 (Wednesday)

  • A secret meeting of the
    Arthur Wilson, the leaders of the British Army and the Royal Navy, respectively, presented their opposing views on how a war in continental Europe should be conducted.[58]
  • Born:
    • Betty Robinson, U.S. athlete and winner of first women's 100 meter in the Summer Olympics; gold medalist 1928 and 1936; holder of 100m world record and "fastest woman on Earth", 1928–1932; in Riverdale, Illinois (d. 1999)
    • Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper, Olympic gold medalist 1932 and 1936, world champion 1931, 1935 and 1937; in Kongsberg (d. 1998)

August 24, 1911 (Thursday)

  • Led by the organization Tung Chi Huei, Chinese citizens living in
    Xinhai Revolution would begin six weeks later.[59]
  • Manuel de Arriaga, Procurator General of Portugal was elected the first President of Portugal, receiving 121 votes from the Constituent Assembly. In second place was Foreign Minister Bernardo Machado, with 86 votes. Arriaga had been a professor at Columbia University and had taught English to the late King Carlos of Portugal.[60]
  • The first shipment of coal was made from Harlan County, Kentucky, the beginning of its transformation into a major coal producer.[61] The influx of miners and their families raised the population from 11,000 to 31,500 in ten years, and to 75,000 by 1940, before declining to 29,000 by 2011.
  • Born: Frederick E. Nolting Jr., U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (1961–1963); in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1989)

August 25, 1911 (Friday)

  • Andre Jaeger-Schmidt made good on his bet to travel around the world in 40 days, arriving at Cherbourg at 11:15 pm, in Paris 4 hours and 17 minutes ahead of schedule.[62]
  • Harry Atwood completed his flight from St. Louis to New York, covering 1,265 miles in 11 days, setting a new distance record.[33]
  • Twenty-eight people were killed and 74 injured in a train wreck at Manchester, New York. Two passenger cars on the Lehigh Valley Train No. 4 fell from the track into a ravine after encountering a section of track weakened by metal fatigue. Many of the dead and injured were veterans of the American Civil War and other members of the Grand Army of the Republic organization, on their way to an encampment in Rochester.[63]
  • George Santayana address coined a term in "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" in an address to the Philosophical Union of the University of California at Berkeley[64]
  • Count Katsura Tarō resigned as Prime Minister of Japan, along with his entire cabinet.[65]
  • Born:
    Quảng Bình Province
    (d. 2013)
  • Died: William S. Hutchings, 80, the "lightning calculator" for P.T. Barnum's circus.

August 26, 1911 (Saturday)

August 27, 1911 (Sunday)

  • Quoting from astronomer Percival Lowell, The New York Times reported that "vast engineering works" had been "accomplished in an incredibly short time by our planetary neighbors", referring to canals built on the planet Mars by its inhabitants. The Times noted that in two years, straight chasms had been built that were 20 miles wide and 1,000 miles in length.[69]
  • The phrase "our place in the sun", describing one's belief in an entitlement, was first used by Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II in a speech delivered at Hamburg "No one can dispute with us the place in the sun that is our due", borrowed from Blaise Pascal's Pensees.[70]
  • Fifteen people were killed by a
  • Born:
    • Van Rensselaer Potter, developer of the study of bioethics; in Pierpont, South Dakota (d. 2001)
    • Johnny Eck (stage name for John Eckhardt Jr.); American acrobat and sideshow performer who overcame a birth defect of being born without legs by making a performance of walking on his hands; in Baltimore. Robert Ripley, author of the Believe It or Not! newspaper feature called him "The Most Remarkable Man in the World"; (d. 1991)

August 28, 1911 (Monday)

August 29, 1911 (Tuesday)

August 30, 1911 (Wednesday)

August 31, 1911 (Thursday)

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