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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.
As Schrank was subdued and held up on his feet, the crowd went into a frenzy. Several of the closest men around Schrank began pummeling him, and others screamed "kill him!", and "hang him!". Roosevelt, seeing what was happening, shouted to the crowd, "Don't hurt him. Bring him here. I want to see him."
1911 March 25: 146 employees, mostly women, are killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire near Washington Square Park, some by being forced to jump from the building by the fire. [85] July: 1911 Eastern North America heat wave. New York Public Library Main Branch building constructed. Negro Society for Historical Research established. [36]
Three days after a botched train robbery, Elmer McCurdy, 31, was shot and killed by lawmen in Oklahoma. McCurdy would achieve fame 65 years later. McCurdy would achieve fame 65 years later. In December 1976, a TV crew discovered that a dummy on display in an amusement park in Long Beach, California, was actually McCurdy's mummified body.
The privateers were crouched behind the prisoners who shouted at the castle not to shoot. As they got closer and closer to the main gates the castle's gunners reluctantly opened fire – despite the pleas of the prisoners. [16] The guns firing chain shot wounded a number of the prisoners and an Englishman. Now close to the walls the English ...
According to reports, the crew "donned the special diving helmets and suits and were shot to the surface by means of the submerged torpedo tubes". [ 46 ] The U.S. Navy battleship USS Delaware (BB-28) , assigned to carry the body of Anibal Cruz, the Chilean Minister to the United States, back to Chile, was sailing from Cuba to Hampton Roads when ...
1911 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the ...
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.