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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
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.
1911: Aug 28: Ishi, called "the last wild Indian", surrenders near Oroville, California. [230] 1912: Jan 6: New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. Feb 14: Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. It is the last state to be admitted to the Union during the Old West era. [231] Aug 24: The District of Alaska is organized into the ...
The Dorr Rebellion takes place in Rhode Island because men who did not own land could not vote. [16] 1843. Rhode Island drafts a new constitution extending voting rights to any free men regardless of whether they own property, provided they pay a $1 poll tax. Naturalized citizens are still not eligible to vote unless they own property. [16] 1848
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 ...
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December 1911 events in the United States (3 P) This page was last ...