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•  January 2, 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill
•  January 30, 1911 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  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.
•  September 1, 1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
•  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.
•  October 24, 1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
•  November 3, 1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
•  November 11, 1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
•  December 24, 1911 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

•  January 1, 1911 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-born American violinist
•  January 7, 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
•  January 18, 1911 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969).
•  March 26, 1911 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)
•  March 31, 1911 – Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
•  April 7, 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
•  May 10, 1911 – Bel Kaufman, American author
•  September 15, 1911 – Luther Terry, American Surgeon General (d. 1985)
•  September 23, 1911 – Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
•  October 26, 1911 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)