1911 Calendar
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1911 Historical Event(s)
January 30, 1911
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
April 2, 1911
– The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country’s first national census.
April 6, 1911
– During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
May 9, 1911
– The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
May 31, 1911
– President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
June 16, 1911
– A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
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.
September 25, 1911
– Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
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.
November 19, 1911
– The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
Who Were Born On 1911?
March 8, 1911
– Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
April 6, 1911
– Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
May 23, 1911
– Paul Mayer, German Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 2010)
June 13, 1911
– Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
June 25, 1911
– William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
July 7, 1911
– Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
July 29, 1911
– Archbishop Iakovos of America, Turkish-born Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America (d. 2005)
August 8, 1911
– Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
November 27, 1911
– David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
December 13, 1911
– Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1999)