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Nascent Drama

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Events of 1911

January

* January 1 - Northern Territory is politically separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
* January 3 - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End.
* January 5 - The Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity is founded at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
* January 12 - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; 3 future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
* January 18 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
* January 21
o The first Monte Carlo races (Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo) are held.
o The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate (modern Botswana).
* January 26 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
* January 30
o The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea, saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
o Anorthosis Famagusta FC is formed in Famagusta, Cyprus.

February

* February 18 - The first official air mail flight takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.

March

* March - The first installment of a serialized version of Frederick Winslow Taylor's monograph, The Principles of Scientific Management,(online version here) appears in American Magazine. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues, giving a boost to the efficiency movement.
* March 1 - José Batlle y Ordóñez is elected President of Uruguay.
* March 8 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.
* March 10 - The Kansas legislature approves House Bill Number 906, effectively the first blue sky law in the United States, culminating an effort by Joseph Norman Dolley, Kansas' banking commissioner.
* March 24 - Denmark abolishes the death penalty and flogging.
* March 25 - A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kills 146.
* March 29 - The United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.

April

* April 6 - Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
* April 13 - Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" López is drunk.
* April 19 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juárez but general Juan J. Navarro refuses his demand of surrender.
* April 27 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
* April 30 - Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine.

May
May 23: New York Public Library dedication ceremony held.

* May 8 - Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission. Government troops surrender May 10.
* May 11 - A Futurist exhibition in Milan is the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete.
* May 15 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
* May 17 - Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz is convinced to resign but does not do so officially.
* May 21 - Mexican Revolution: A peace treaty is signed between the rebels of Madero and government troops in Ciudad Juarez.
* May 23 - The New York Public Library is officially dedicated.
* May 24 - Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).
* May 25 - Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz; on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
* May 30 - The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp'.
* May 31 - The hull of the White Star Line's new flagship, Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.

June

* June 7 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City just after a local earthquake.
* June 14
o A national seamen's strike begins in Britain.
o The RMS Olympic, sister to the RMS Titanic, begins her maiden voyage at Southampton, England.
* June 15 - IBM is incorporated as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) in New York.
* June 16 - A 772-gram stony meteorite strikes earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn, damaging a barn.
* June 17 - The University of Iceland is founded.
* June 22 - George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are crowned at Westminster Abbey, London.
* June 28 - The Nakhla meteorite (from Mars) lands in the area of Alexandria, Egypt, purportedly killing a dog.

July

* July 1 - The presence of the German warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers the Agadir Crisis, escalating pre-WW1 tensions; a subsequent climbdown rallies German militancy.
* July 24 - Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.

July 24: Machu Picchu

August

* August 8 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 (the law takes effect in 1913).
* August 9 - Raunds, Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C), the highest UK temperature until 1990.
* August 10 - British MPs vote to receive salaries for the first time.
* August 22 - The theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered in the Louvre (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned in 1913).
* August 29 - The Diocese of Kottayam is erected in Kerala, India for the Knanaya Catholic people of the Syro-Malabar Church (in 2005 the diocese is raised to the rank of Archdiocese).

September

* September 7 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. He is later released.
* September 11 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
* September 20 - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton, England.
* September 25
o The French Navy ship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon.
o Groundbreaking for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, begins.
* September 29 - Italy declares war on Turkey.
* September 30 - A concrete dam owned by the Bayless Pulp & Paper Mill breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania and continuing downstream about 8 miles into the village of Costello.

October

* October - The first Solvay Congress of physicists convenes.
* October 6 - The British Seafarers' Union is formed in Southampton, England.
* October 10
o The Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution that leads to the founding of the Republic of China.
o Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada's eighth prime minister.
* October 16 - Mexican Revolution: Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz, occupies the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against Madero.
* October 18 - Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrow China's Manchu dynasty.
* October 24 - Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years. [1]
* October 28 - The Rosicrucian Fellowship's international headquarters opens at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California (preceded by its formal constitution in August 8, 1909 at Seattle, Washington).

November
November 11: Old district of Visoko today: In November 1911 it was almost completely destroyed by fire.

* November 3 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
* November 4 - The Selandia (the first ocean going diesel ship) is launched in Denmark.
* November 5 - Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (this act is confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25, 1912).
* November 11
o A record cold snap hits the United States Midwest; many cities break record highs and lows on the same day (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
o A big fire strikes Visoko, Bosnia, burning over 450 houses and other objects. The upper city area is completely burned, as well as all the houses down the main street alongside Beledija.
* November 15 - Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne and later Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco officially recognizes his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet as Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
* November 16 - An earthquake strikes Swab, South Germany.
* November 17 - The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded at Howard University.
* November 30 - Construction begins on the White Star Liner SS Gigantic at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast. She will eventually be renamed Britannic.

December
December 11: Coronation ceremonies in new capital of India, New Delhi, site of Humayun's Tomb

* December 11 - George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are crowned as Emperor of India and Empress consort, respectively, in New Delhi.
* December 12 - The capital of India is shifted to New Delhi from Calcutta (now Kolkata).
* December 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole.
* December 21 - The Bonnot Gang carries out their first robbery in Paris, France.
* December 23 - Stanislavski and Craig's seminal production of Hamlet opens at the Moscow Arts Theatre.
* December 24 - The Lackawanna Cutoff, the first of two major cutoffs built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, opens just 3 years after it was built.
* December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
 
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