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Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: George W. Bellamy (until month and day unknown), J. J. McAlester (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert S. Murphy (until January 17), John Merriman Reynolds (starting January 17)
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 ...
Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada) Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when it was rededicated to honor American military (Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force) veterans. (United States) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975.
An out-of-this-world display of astronauts defying gravity in this holiday display in 1958. It's a bit on the nose, given all that was happening during the Space Race. Keystone-France - Getty Images
China's National Assembly voted to begin using the "Western calendar" to replace the traditional Chinese lunar calendar used by the Emperor, with full use to begin effective January 1, 1912, which was declared as the "first day of the first month of the first year of the Republic of China" (and was the 13th day of 11th month of the 4609th year ...
Bold text indicates a public holiday, on which most government agencies and major businesses are closed. January 16: Religious Freedom Day; 3rd Monday in January: Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday [4] 3rd Sunday in January: National Sanctity of Human Life Day; various March/April: Education and Sharing Day (based on Hebrew calendar)
May 21 is the 141st day of ... 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero ... art critic and conservator (b. 1910) 1998 ...
In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is discovered to be missing at the Louvre in Paris. Vincenzo Perugia allegedly removed the famous painting off the wall and snuck it out of the Museum ...