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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 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 ...
The first, and only, time a November palindrome day occurred in the 20th century was on this date (11-9-1911). (Note that this is a seven-digit palindrome day which can also be interpreted as the full date number of January 19, 1911, if written as 1-19-1911 instead of 11-9-1911). The next one would occur on November 2, 2011 (11-02-2011).
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]
The National Assembly was authorized to draft a constitution, which it did within four days. [97] [98] The First Solvay Conference begins in Brussels, as an invite-only council chaired by Hendrik Lorentz. This was the first international conference in the history of modern science, and would spark the creation of the regular, open Solvay ...
In 1910, newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst offered $50,000 to the first aviator to fly from coast to coast. The flight had to be completed in fewer than 30 days and by Oct. 11, 1911.
February 14, 1911: Rebel Mexican leader Francisco I. Madero avoids arrest, crosses into Mexico to fight President Porfirio Díaz February 18, 1911: Earthquake in Tajikistan creates Usoi Dam, highest in the world February 6, 1911: Future U.S. President Ronald Reagan born in Tampico, Illinois. The following events occurred in February 1911:
A janitor who had happened by at 4:00 a.m. was tied up by the robbers, and the bank's caretaker did not discover the theft until two hours later. The culprits left behind another $100,000 worth of small bills and silver and escaped without notice, despite the bank being located only 25 yards away from the city police station.