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L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in a 1911 photo. October 7 – Outlaw Elmer McCurdy and "associates" are chased after trying to rob a train in Oklahoma. McCurdy on the run is eventually hunted down and shot by authorities. His body is never claimed and later is chemically petrified.
1911 – Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil; 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; 1911 – First Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first winner; 1912 – RMS Titanic sank; 1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states; 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low
Puck magazine edition of December 27, 1911 (v. 70, no. 1817) depicting the flareback of the bombing. On December 1, 1911, the McNamara brothers changed their pleas in open court to guilty. James B. McNamara admitted to murder by having set the bomb that destroyed the Los Angeles Times building on October 1, 1910. John J. McNamara, setting foot ...
Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition 1911–2011; Conference: "Out of the Smoke and the Flame: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and its Legacy" CHALK: annual community commemoration "Rosenfeld's Requiem", a poem about the victims of the fire by Morris Rosenfeld first published in The Jewish Daily Forward on March 29, 1911; Triangle Returns.
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The strike collapsed, as did the ARU, and Debs, a once middle-of-the-road social reformer, converted to a full-blown socialist while serving a sentence in Federal prison for defying a court order to cease striking. [50] [51] The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers.