Timeline 1910 - 1911
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1910 Jan 3,
British miners struck for an 8 hour working day.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1910 Jan 3, The Social Democratic
Congress in Germany demanded universal suffrage.
(HN, 1/3/99)
1910 Jan 4, Leon Walrus (b.1834),
French economist, died. In 1874 he wrote and published the first
edition of his magnum opus, the “Elements of Pure Economics.”
(http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/walras.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/pdw34)
1910 Jan 6, Wright Morris (d.1998
at 88), author, was born in Central City, Nebraska. He wrote 33 books
over his career.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.D7)
1910 Jan 6, Union leaders asked
President Taft to investigate U.S. Steel practices.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1910 Jan 7, Alain JG de
Rothschild, banker and baron, was born in France.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1910 Jan 13, Andrew Jackson Davis
(b.1826), American clairvoyant, died. While in a mesmeric (hypnotic)
trance, could allegedly communicate with the spirit world and
accurately diagnose medical disorders. In 1850, in his book the “Great
Harmonia,” Davis talks about how man evolved from animals and that
evolution also took place in plants and animals up to man.
(www.andrewjacksondavis.com/)
1910 Jan 16, David McCampbell, US
pilot and captain (WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Japanese planes), was born.
(MC, 1/16/02)
1910 Jan 20, Joy Adamson, British
author and naturalist, was born. He lived in Kenya and wrote "Born
Free."
(HN, 1/20/99)
1910 Jan 21, A British-Russian
military intervention took place in Persia.
(MC, 1/21/02)
1910 Jan 21, Japan rejected the
American proposal to neutralize ownership of the Manchurian Railway.
(HN, 1/21/99)
1910 Feb 7, Edmond Rostand's
"Chanticleer," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1910 Feb
8, The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated in Washington, D.C. by
William D. Boyce, a wealthy Chicago publisher who learned of the
"scouts" on a trip to England the previous year.
(NPR, 7/26/95)(HN, 2/8/98)(AP, 2/8/99)
1910 Feb 10, Dominique Georges
Pire, Belgian cleric and educator, was born.
(HN, 2/10/01)
1910 Feb 11, Theodore Roosevelt
Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announced their wedding date—June 20, 1910.
President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill creating Mesa Verde National
Park.
(HN, 2/11/97)
1910 Feb 13, William B. Shockley,
physicist, co-inventor of the transistor, was born. He won the Nobel
Prize in 1956.
(HN, 2/13/01)(MC, 2/13/02)
1910 Feb 19, English premiere of
Richard Strauss' "Elektra."
(MC, 2/19/02)
1910 Feb 19, Mary Mallon (aka
Typhoid Mary) was released from 4 years of quarantine on New York’s
North Brother Island. In 1914 she caused a typhus outbreak in the
Sloane Maternity Hospital. She was again arrested and returned to North
Brother Island where she died Nov 11, 1938.
(ON, 7/01, p.12)
1910 Feb 20, Julian Trevelyan,
English Surrealist painter, collage maker, was born.
(MC, 2/20/02)
1910 Feb 21, John Galsworthy's
"Justice," premiered in London.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1910 Feb 23, George Bernard Shaw's
"Misalliance," premiered in London.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1910 Feb 25, The Dalai Lama fled
from the Chinese and took refuge in India.
(HN, 2/25/98)
1910 Feb 27, Peter De Vries,
writer, poetry editor (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)(Poetry Magazine,
The New Yorker), was born.
(HN, 2/27/01)(MC, 2/27/02)
1910 Feb 28, Vincente Minnelli,
director (American in Paris, Gigi), was born in Chicago, IL.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1910 Mar 1, An avalanche at
Wellington, Wa., pushed two Great Northern trains carrying 96 people
over a ledge at Stevens Pass.
(SSFC, 3/1/09, p.C10)
1910 Mar 8, Claire Trevor
(d.2000), Hollywood actress, was born. [some sources place her birth in
1909]
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C14)
1910 Mar 8, Baroness de Laroche
became the first women to obtain a pilot’s license in France.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1910 Mar 9, Samuel Barber,
American composer, was born. His work includes "Medea’s Meditation and
Dance of Vengeance."
(WUD, 1994, p.119)(SFC, 10/5/96, p.E1)(HN, 3/9/98)
1910 Mar 10, Slavery was abolished
in China.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1910 Mar 10, Carl Heinrich Carsten
Reinecke (85), composer, died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1910 Mar 17, The Camp Fire Girls
organization was formed in Lake Sebago, Maine. It was formally
presented to the public exactly two years later.
(AP, 3/17/97)(HN, 3/17/01)
1910 Mar 21, The U.S. Senate
granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a pension of $10,000 yearly.
(HN, 3/21/98)
1910 Mar 23, Akira Kurosawa,
Japanese film director (Living, Rashomon, The Seven Samurai), was born
in Tokyo, Japan.
(HN, 3/23/01)(SS, 3/23/02)
1910 Mar 23, 1st race at Los
Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway).
(SS, 3/23/02)
1910 Mar 26, US forbade
immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1910 Mar 26, William H. Lewis was
appointed Assistant Attorney General of US.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1910 Mar 27, John Robinson Pierce,
the father of communications satellites, was born.
(HN, 3/27/01)
1910 Mar 27, Alexander E. Agassiz
(74), US businessman, biologist, geologist, died.
(MC, 3/27/02)
1910 Mar 28, Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt gave his “Law and Order in Egypt” speech at Cairo Univ.
Sheikh Ali Yusuf, Muslim cleric and popular columnist, had written an
open letter in praise of Roosevelt’s visit, but the president’s
imperious tone soon disappointed Egyptian hopes.
(www.mobipocket.com/EN/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=86377)(Econ,
6/6/09, p.1910)
1910 Mar 28, The first seaplane
took off from water at Martinques, France.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1910 Mar 29, Helen Wells, author
of the Cherry Ames series, was born.
(HN, 3/29/01)
1910 Apr 2, Karl Harris perfected
the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber.
(HN, 4/2/98)
1910 Apr 2, Boyd Alexander (37),
English explorer (Niger to the Nile), was murdered.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1910 Apr 3, Alaska’s Mt. McKinley,
the highest mountain in North America, was climbed.
(HN, 4/3/98)
1910 Apr 8, Harriet Doerr (d.2002)
was born as Harriet Huntington, grand-daughter of railroad tycoon Henry
Edwards Huntington, in Pasadena. In 1984 she won the American Book
Award for 1st fiction for "Stone for Ibarra."
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
1910 Apr 11, Anna Magnani, Italian
actress (Awakening, Roma), was born.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1910 Apr 14, President William
Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first pitch on
baseball’s Opening Day. Taft threw to Washington Senator pitcher Walter
Johnson, who went on to hurl a shutout win, allowing the Philadelphia
Phillies just one hit and ending the day with a 3-0 victory for
Washington.
(HNQ, 8/9/02)
1910 Apr 19, After weeks of being
viewed through telescopes, Halley's Comet was reported visible to the
naked eye in Curacao.
(AP, 4/19/00)
1910 Apr 20, Robert F. Wagner,
(Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65), was born.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1910 Apr 21, Author Mark Twain
(74), born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, died in Redding, Conn. His work
included "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court," "The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn," "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and "More Tramps
Abroad." His short story "The War Prayer" was published after his
death. In 1912 Albert Bigelow Paine authored "Mark Twain: A Biography."
In 1959 Charles Neider authored "The Autobiography of Mark Twain." In
1966 Justin Kaplan authored "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography."
In 1997 Andrew Hoffman authored "Inventing Mark Twain, The Lives of
Samuel Langhorn Clemens. In 2005 Ron Powers authored “Mark Twain: A
Life.” In 2007 Peter Krass authored “Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy
Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain.”
(http://courant.ctnow.com/probjects/twain/timeline.htm)(SFC, 7/13/01,
p.D5)(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.D6)(SSFC, 11/27/05, p.M2)(WSJ, 3/13/07, p.D5)
1910 Apr 21, Halley’s Comet was
visible in the night sky. Entrepreneurs peddled "comet gas masks" for
people worried about the Earth's passage through poisonous cyanogen gas
in the comet's tail.
(NH, 5/97, p.18)(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.B10)
1910 Apr 28, The first night air
flight was performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.
(HN, 4/28/98)
1910 May 3, Alceo Galliera,
composer, conductor, was born.
(MC, 5/3/02)
1910 May 4, Tel Aviv was founded.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1910 May 6, Edward VII (68),
Britain's King (1901-1910), died and George V ascended to the British
throne.
(AP, 5/6/97)(MC, 5/6/02)
1910 May 8, Mary Lou Williams,
jazz pianist and composer, was born.
(HN, 5/7/02)
1910 May 10, The 1st aircraft air
display was held at Hendon, England.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1910 May 11, Glacier National Park
in Montana was established.
(AP, 5/11/97)
1910 May 15, Robert F. Wagner,
(Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65), was born.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1910 May 18, Passage of Earth
through tail of Halley's Comet caused near-panic.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1910 May 18, Flor van Duyse (66),
composer, died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1910 May 23, Franz Kline (d.1962),
American painter of abstract expressionist style, was born in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
(www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_77.html)
1910 May 23, Artie Shaw (d.2004),
jazz bandleader and clarinetist, was born as Arthur Jacoby Arshawsky on
the Lower East Side of NYC to poor Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
(HN, 5/23/01)(SFC, 12/31/04, p.A4)
1910 May 25, Ernest Anderson,
publicist, was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1910 May 26, Laurance S.
Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1910 May 27, Robert Koch (b.1843),
German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), died.
(http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1905/koch-bio.html)
1910 May 28, T-Bone Walker, blues
guitarist and singer, was born.
(HN, 5/28/01)
1910 May 28, Kalman Mikszath
(b.1847), Hungarian satirical novelist, died.
(Sm, 3/06, p.79)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0586690/)
1910 May 29, Pope's encyclical on
Editae Saepe was against church reformers.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1910 May 29, Mili Alexeyevich
Balakirev (73), Russian composer (Islamej), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1910 May 31, Elizabeth Blackwell
(89), 1st woman physician, died.
(MC, 5/31/02)
1910 May 31, The Union of South
Africa was founded as a union within the British Empire.
(NG, Oct. 1988, p. 566)(AP, 5/31/97)
1910 Jun 2, Charles Stewart Rolls,
one of the founders of Rolls-Royce, becomes the first man to fly an
airplane nonstop across the English Channel both ways. Tragically, he
became Britain's first aircraft fatality the following month when his
biplane broke up in midair.
(HN, 6/2/00)
1910 Jun 2, Pygmies were
discovered in Dutch New Guinea (Papua).
(SC, 6/2/02)
1910 Jun 9, Passenger on SS
Arawatta threw a bottle with note overboard. It was found June 6, 1983,
in Queensland.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1910 Jun 11, Carmine Coppola
(d.1991), composer, conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now), was born.
(Internet)
1910 Jun 11, Jacques Cousteau
(d.1997), pioneer sea explorer, was born in Saint-Andre-de-Cubzac,
France. He invented the aqualung and wrote "The Living Sea."
(SFC, 6/26/97, p.A7)(HN, 6/11/99)
1910 Jun 14, Rudolf Kempe,
conductor, was born in Niederpoyritz, Germany.
(MC, 6/14/02)
1910 Jun 16, The first Father's
Day was celebrated in Spokane Washington by Mrs. John Bruce Dodd. [see
June 19] Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, is credited with the
concept for Father's Day. Dodd sought a way to honor her own father,
who had raised her as a single parent. In 1924 the holiday was approved
by President Calvin Coolidge and, in 1972, President Richard Nixon
officially recognized the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.
(HN, 6/16/98)(HN, 6/20/99)
1910 Jun 19, Father's Day was
celebrated for the first time in Spokane Washington, initiated by Mrs.
John B. Dodd. [see June 16]
(AP, 6/19/98)
1910 Jun 20, Chester Arthur
Burnett (d.1976) was born in West Point, Mississippi. He later became
known as the blues singer Howlin’ Wolf.
(SSFC, 7/4/04, p.M6)(www.britannica.com)
1910 Jun 20, Josephine Johnson,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Jordanstown, Wildwood), was born.
(HN, 6/20/01)
1910 Jun 20, Mexican President
Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law and arrested hundreds.
(HN, 6/20/98)
1910 Jun 22, German bacteriologist
Paul Ehrlich announced a definitive cure for syphilis.
(AP, 6/22/01)
1910 Jun 23, Jean Anouilh, French
playwright, was born.
(HN, 6/23/01)
1910 Jun 24, The Japanese army
invaded Korea.
(HN, 6/24/98)
1910 Jun 25, An Act of US Congress
established a postal savings system in post offices, effective January
1, 1911. It paid 2% interest on deposits not to exceed $2,500. In 1966
post offices stopped taking deposits. A 1984 law declared that no
claims on funds would be honored after July 13, 1985.
(www.usps.com/history/his2_5.htm)(SFC, 11/30/05,
p.G3)
1910 Jun 25, The Mann Act was
passed in the US. It forbade transporting women across state lines for
immoral purposes.
(MC, 6/25/02)
1910 Jul 28, Bill Goodwin,
announcer (Burns & Allen, Boing Boing Show), was born in SF, Calif.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1910 Jun 29, Frank Loesser,
songwriter, was born.
(HN, 6/29/01)
1910 Jul 4, African-American Jack
Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries in the 15th round of a heavyweight
boxing match in Reno, Nevada. As Johnson entered the ring a band played
“All Coons Look Alike to Me.” Johnson’s victory prompted race riots in
major cities across the United States leaving as many as 26 people
dead. Jack London covered the match and coined the phrase "The great
white hope" in his story.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.B10)(Econ, 6/21/08, p.104)(ON,
4/09, p.7)
1910 Jul 4, Melville W. Fuller
(b.1833), US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1888-1910), died after
serving over 21 years. He favored limited government, economic liberty,
private property rights, free trade and contractual freedom.
(SFC, 9/6/05,
p.A4)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/50/)
1910 Jul 6, Dorothy Kirsten, opera
singer, was born.
(HN, 7/6/01)
1910 Aug 9, Alva Fisher patented
the first complete, self-contained electric washing machine.
(HN, 8/9/00)(MC, 8/9/02)
1912 Aug 10, Leonard Woolf
(1880-1969), English man of letters, married writer Virginia Duckworth
(b.1882). Virginia Woolf committed suicide in 1941.
(WSJ, 12/17/05,
p.P13)(www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/)
1910 Aug 13, Florence Nightingale
(90), British nurse famous for her care of British soldiers during the
Crimean War, died. In 2004 Gillian Gill authored “Nightingales: The
Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence
Nightingale.” In 2008 Mark Bostridge authored Florence Nightingale: The
Making of an Icon.”
(HN, 8/13/98)(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.M3)(AP, 8/13/07)(WSJ,
10/21/08, p.A17)
1910 Aug 15, Hugo Winterhalter,
composer, was born.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1910 Aug 20, Eero Saarinen
(d.1961), Finnish-US architect (IBM Building, MIT Chapel), was born in
Rantasalmi, Finland.
(MC, 8/20/02)
1910 Aug 20, The 1st shot fired
from an airplane was during a test flight over Brooklyn's Sheepshead
Bay.
(WSJ, 5/20/03, p.D5)
1910 Aug 20-21, The Great Idaho
Fire killed 86 people and destroyed some 3 million acres of timber in
Idaho and Montana.
(http://www.idahoforests.org/fires.htm)
1910 Aug 22, Japan annexed Korea
following 5 years as a protectorate and ruled for 35 years.
(WSJ, 10/14/95, p.A-1)(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 215)(AP,
8/22/06)
1910 Aug 26, William James
(b.1842), American psychologist and philosopher, died. His work
included “the Principles of Psychology” (1890) and “The Varieties of
Religious Experience” (1902). William James was the older brother of
novelist Henry James. In 2006 Robert D. Richardson authored the
biography: “William James.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James)
1910 Aug 26-27, Agnes Gonxhe
Bojaxhiu (d.1997), later known as Mother Teresa and care-taker of the
poor in Calcutta, was born to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje,
Macedonia. She later founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta
and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A10)(SFC, 8/26/97, p.C3)(AP,
9/12/03)
1910 Aug 27, Thomas Edison
demonstrated the first "talking" pictures using a phonograph in his New
Jersey laboratory.
(HN, 8/27/01)
1910 Aug 31, Theodore Roosevelt
delivered the "New Nationalism" speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, effecting
a split in the Republican Party. The speech was interpreted as an
assault upon the conservatism of the Taft administration. In the
speech, Roosevelt proclaimed that the New Nationalism "maintains that
every man holds his property subject to the general right of the
community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may
require it."
(HNQ, 12/22/99)
1910 Sep 1, Jack Hawkins, actor
(Ben-Four Just Men) was born in London, England.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1910 Sep 2, Alice Stebbins Wells
was admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police
officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1910 Sep 2, Henri "le Douanier"
Rousseau (b.1844), French ambassador and painter, died in Paris. He had
recently completed his masterpiece “The Dream.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Rousseau)(WSJ,
9/13/06, p.D10)
1910 Sep 5, Marie Curie
demonstrated the transformation of radium ore to metal at the Academy
of Sciences in France.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1910 Sep 8, Jean-Louis Barrault,
director and actor (Les Enfants du Paradis), was born in Vesinet,
France.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1910 Sep 10, The Great Idaho Fire
destroyed 3 million acres of timber.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1910 Sep 11, Gerhard Schroder,
German chancellor, was born.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1910 Sep 11, The 1st commercially
successful electric bus line opened in Hollywood.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1910 Sep 12, Alexander D.
Langmuir, epidemiologist, was born. He created and led the U.S.
Epidemic Intelligence Service.
(HN, 9/12/00)
1910 Sep 12, Gustav Mahler's 8th
Symphony premiered in Munich with 1028 musicians.
(MC, 9/12/01)
1910 Sep 19, George Cohan's
"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1910 Sep 23, Elliot Roosevelt, son
of FDR and writer (Murder in the Oval Office), was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1910 Sep 27, 1st test flight of a
twin-engined airplane was made in France.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1910 Sep, Hendrik Baekeland joined
with investors to form the General Bakelite Company.
(ON, 9/05, p.12)
1910 Sep, In Chicago a spontaneous
strike by a handful of women workers led to a citywide strike of 45,000
garment workers. That strike was a bitter one and pitted the strikers
against not only their employers and the local authorities, but also
their own union.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamated_Clothing_Workers_of_America)
1910 Oct 1, Mass. 1st state fair
was the Berkshire Cattle Fair in Pittsfield.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1910 Oct 1, The Los Angeles Times
building at 1st and Broadway was bombed killing 21 nonunion pressman
and linotype operators. A new Los Angeles Times building was completed
in 1935. In 2008 Howard Blum authored “American Lightning: Terror,
Mystery, The Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century.”
(WSJ, 9/16/08,
p.A23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing)
1910 Oct 4, Scottish surgeon
Joseph Bell died. He was the real-life model for Arthur Conan Doyle's
character Sherlock Holmes.
(MC, 10/4/01)
1910 Oct 10, Charles E. Hughes
(1862-1948) was sworn in as associate Justice on the US Supreme Court.
He resigned in 1916. In 1930 he became Chief Justice.
(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/62/)
1910 Oct 11, Joseph Alsop,
American journalist, was born.
(HN, 10/11/98)
1910 Oct 13, Ernest Kellogg Gann,
pilot and adventure novelist, was born. His work included "Island in
the Sky" and "The High and Mighty."
(HN, 10/13/00)
1910 Oct 13, Art Tatum, American
jazz pianist, was born.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1910 Oct 15, Torbjorn Oskar
Caspersson, Swedish cytologist and geneticist, was born.
(HN, 10/15/00)
1910 Oct 17, Julia Ward Howe
(b.1819), author of the Battle Hymn of Republic (1893), died at 91.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1910 Oct 18, M. Baudry was the
first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel—from La Motte-Breil
to Wormwood Scrubbs.
(HN, 10/18/98)
1910 Oct 23, Blanche S. Scott
became the first woman to make a solo, public airplane flight, reaching
an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
(AP, 10/23/00)
1910 Oct 27, Fred de Cordova, film
and TV producer (Tonight Show), was born.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1910 Oct 28, Francis Bacon
(d.1992), English artist who painted expressionist portraits, was born
in Dublin to English parents. He had no formal training as an artist.
After earning a modest reputation in the 1920s as a modernist interior
designer, he began oil painting in 1929. He first established himself
as a major in 1944, when his now-famous triptych Three Studies for
Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion was exhibited at London’s Tate
Gallery. Birth year also given as 1909.
(HN, 10/28/98)(MIA, www,1999)(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.29)
1910 Oct 29, A.J. Ayer, English
philosopher, was born.
(HN, 10/29/00)
1910 Oct 30, Jean Henri Dunant
(b.1828), Swiss philanthropist, died. His book “A Memory of Solferino”
(1862) led to the foundation of the Int’l. Committee of the Red Cross.
He was the first recipient (jointly) of the Nobel Peace Prize.
(http://tinyurl.com/gbxhd)
1910 Nov 7, Leo Tolstoy (b.1828),
Russian earl and writer (War & Peace), died at the rural Astapovo
train station [OS, NS=Nov 20]. In 2007 Leah Bendavid-Val authored “Song
Without Words: The Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy.”
(WSJ, 8/6/99,
p.W11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy)(WSJ, 12/1/07, p.W10)
1910 Nov 8, Democrats prevailed in
congressional elections for the first time since 1894.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1910 Nov 9, France, Spain, Norway,
Belgium, Germany, Russia, and Great Britain established diplomatic
relations with the new republic of Portugal.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1910 Nov 12, In the 1st movie
stunt a man jumped into the Hudson river from a burning balloon.
(MC, 11/12/01)
1910 Nov 14, Lieutenant Eugene
Ely, U.S. Navy, was the first to take off in an airplane from the deck
of a ship. He flew from the Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk. It
was a Curtiss plane flown by Eugene Ely, a company exhibition pilot,
that made the first successful takeoff from a Navy ship.
(HN, 11/14/98)
1910 Nov 18, In Mexico the first
shots of the revolution were fired in Puebla when federal police
attacked the home of Aquiles Serdan, a shoe store owner agitating
against Diaz.
(SFEC,11/9/97, p.T6)
1910 Nov 20, Revolution broke out
in Mexico. Francisco I. Madero called for a rise to national arms on
this day when dictator Porfirio Diaz reneged on his pledge to stay out
of the presidential election.
(SFEC,11/9/97, p.T6)(AP, 11/20/97)
1910 Nov 22, Amy Elizabeth Thorpe,
a Minnesota-born British spy known as "Cynthia" was born in
Minneapolis. She has been described as World War II's "Mata Hari."
Family and friends called her Betty. William Stephenson, who ran Great
Britain’s World War II intelligence activities in the Western
Hemisphere, would one day give her a code name--"Cynthia." She
reputedly was one of the most successful spies in history.
(HNQ, 3/14/01)
1910 Nov 22, Arthur Knight
patented steel shaft golf clubs.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1910 Nov 23, Hawley H. Crippen,
doctor and murderer, was hanged.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1910 Nov 25, Alwin Nikolais,
choreographer, was born.
(HN, 11/25/00)
1910 Nov 27, In NYC the
Pennsylvania Railroad began service at Pennsylvania Station. It was
begun under the direction of PRR president Alexander J. Cassatt
(d.1906) and designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and
White. In 2007 Jill Jonnes authored “Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age
Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and its Tunnels.” Penn Station
was demolished in 1963.
(AP, 11/27/06)(Econ, 4/14/07, p.95)(SSFC, 7/8/07,
p.M2)
1910 Nov 27, Rudolf Holzmann,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1910 Dec 3, Neon lights were 1st
publicly seen at the Paris Auto Show.
(MC, 12/3/01)
1910 Dec 3, Mary Baker Eddy
(b.1821), founder of the Church of Christ, Science (the Christian
Science movement), died.
(MC, 12/3/01)(WSJ, 9/26/03, p.W17)
1910 Dec 18, Abe Burrows, Broadway
composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1910 Dec 19, Edward W. White
(1845-1921) was sworn in as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/55/)
1910 Dec 19, Jean Genet, criminal,
novelist, dramatist (The Blacks), was born in Paris, France. In 1993
Edmund White published "Jean Genet: A Life."
(WUD, 1994, p.590)(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.3)(MC,
12/19/01)
1910 Dec 19, Rayon was 1st
commercially produced by Marcus Hook in Penn.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1910 Dec 21, 2.5 million plague
victims were reported in the An-Hul province of China.
(HN, 12/21/98)
1910 Dec 21, Explosion in coal
mine in Hulton, England killed 344 mine workers.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1910 Dec 24, In San Francisco
Luisa Tetrazzini, opera diva, sang at the Charlotte Mignon (Lotta)
Crabtree fountain at Market and Kearney in a free performance before a
crowd of 250,000.
(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.B10)
1910 Dec 31, US tobacco industry
produced 9 billion cigarettes for the year.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1910 Dec 31, John B. Moisant and
Arch Hoxsey, two of America's foremost aviators died in separate plane
crashes. Moisant died in a plane crash in New Orleans.
(HN, 12/31/98)(HN, 7/31/01)
1910 Dec, "On or About December
1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World" by Peter Stansky tells
the story of the British Bloomsbury group of writers and artists: Clive
Bell, Thoby Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard
Woolf, Vanessa and Virginia Stephen. In 1997 Regina Marler wrote
Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom."
(SFEC, 9/22/96, BR p.3)(SFEC,11/9/97, BR p.9)
1910 Dec, Virginia Stephen (later
Woolf), Adrian Stephen, Duncan Grant, Horace Cole and others of the
Bloomsbury group dressed as the Abyssinian Emperor and his entourage
and infiltrated the British warship the Dreadnought making a mockery of
national defense.
(SFEC, 9/22/96, BR p.3)(SFEC, 6/22/97, BR p.8)
1910 Nell Sinton, American artist,
was born. Her work included the abstract oil "Greenhouse" (1961).
(SFC, 6/27/97, p.C3)
1910 George Bellows painted his
sporting scene "Polo Crowd." In 1999 it sold for $27.5 million.
(SFC, 12/3/99, p.W16)
1910 Marc Chagall in his pre-Paris
period painted "The Workshop and Death."
(WSJ, 5/11/95, p. A-14)
1910 Alexei von Jawlensky, Russian
painter, created the portrait "Schokko." In 2003 it was auctioned for
$8.2 million.
(SFC, 11/12/03, p.D4)
1910 Vasily Kandinsky painted his
first three compositions at the age of 44, however they were destroyed
in WW II.
(WSJ, 2/8/95), p.A-12)
1910 Arkhip Kuindzhi (b.1842),
Russian painter, died.
(www.artsstudio.com/reproductions/kuindzhi.htm)
1910 Matisse painted "La Danse."
"The Dance II" later ended up at the Hermitage.
(WSJ, 2/16/99, p.A20)(WSJ, 12/8/99, p.A20)
1910 Pablo Picasso painted a
cubist portrait of Ambroise Vollard.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.E5)
1910 John Singer Sargent gave up
portraiture and devoted the rest of his life to murals and landscapes.
(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.W2)
1910 Asahel Curtis shot his photo:
"The Leveling of the Hills to Make Seattle."
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.E3)
1910 E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
wrote "Howard’s End," his next to last novel and good description of
the English class system.
(SFEC, 9/22/96, BR p.3)(WSJ, 9/20/08,
p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.M._Forster)
1910 Harley Granville-Barker wrote
his play “The Madras House.”
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.P9)
1910 Gaston Leroux wrote his novel
"The Phantom of the Opera."
(SFEM, 1/12/97, DB p.13)
1910 John A. Lomax, folklorist,
authored: "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads," a pioneering work
in music preservation.
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A20)
1910 Jack London wrote "Burning
Daylight."
(SFC, 5/5/96, p.T-3)
1910 Herman Lons, German writer,
authored his novel “The Warwolf: a peasant chronicle.” It was set in
the time of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), during which some 10
million people died including 4 million Germans. In 2006 it was made
available in English.
(WSJ, 6/16/06, p.P8)
1910 Thomas Ince set up a Wild
West Show with Sioux Indians at his Inceville village near Los Angeles
and cranked out silent Western films.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1910 Charlie Chaplin, actor,
arrived in the US as part of a London music-hall troupe.
(WSJ, 7/17/96, p.A12)
1910 Bert Williams, actor, broke
the color line on Broadway.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, p.C15)
1910 The NYC film company IMP
produced “Coquette’s Suitor” and identified Florence Lawrence by name
as the lead actress. This was the 1st time to date that a move star was
identified for the purposes of advertising.
(ON, 4/06, p.6)
1910 Gustav Mahler composed his
9th Symphony.
(WSJ, 7/1/03, p.D8)
1910 Igor Stravinsky composed "The
Firebird."
1910 About this time jazz bands
began playing in the gambling houses and brothels of the city’s
notorious Storyville section.
(HNQ, 5/12/98)
1910 Zeppelin scare stories began
to appear in the press in England.
(AHM, 1/97)
1910 The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
was established under Dr. Charles Stuart Gager.
(WSJ, 6/21/06, p.D10)
1910 The Embrey Dam was
constructed on the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, Va. The
22-foot dam was removed in 2004 to open up the river to migratory fish.
(SFC, 2/24/04, p.A2)
1910 Carl Graham Fisher
(1874-1939), on a vacation to Miami about this time, saw potential in
the swampy, bug-infested stretch of land between Miami and the ocean,
and in his mind transformed the 3,500 acres of mangrove swamp and beach
into the perfect vacation destination for his automobile industry
friends, which he called "Miami Beach." He and his wife bought a
vacation home there in 1912 and he began acquiring land. In 2000 Mark
Foster authored “Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham
Fisher.” In 1913 Fisher conceived and helped develop the Lincoln
Highway, the first road for the automobile across the entire United
States of America. As a serial entrepreneur he developed much of Miami
Beach.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_G._Fisher)(Econ,
12/20/08, p.116)
1910 The Hasagawa General Store
was opened in Hana on Maui, Hawaii.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, p.T9)
1910 In SF the 9-story Central
YMCA at 220 Golden Gate Ave. was completed. In 2009 it was closed to
make way for affordable apartments for the homeless.
(SSFC, 5/17/09, p.B1)
1910 In northern California Fort
Barry was established to the west of Fort Baker.
(SFC, 6/13/08, p.A22)
1910 Allensworth, an all-black
community in Tulare County, was founded by Allen Allensworth, a former
Louisiana slave.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.5)
1910 Angel Island, Ca., opened as
an immigration processing and detention center and became known as the
Ellis Island of the West. It processed some 1 million people until
1940. 50,000 Chinese entered the US through Angel Island.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W37)(SFEC, 2/6/00, Rp.10)
1910 In SF William T. “Cocktail
Bill” Boothby (d.1930), devised his Boothby cocktail at the Palace
Hotel. It was essentially a Manhattan with a Champagne float.
(SFC, 12/14/07, p.F2)
1910 The US Grant Hotel was built
in San Diego by the son of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
(SSFC, 4/8/07, p.G1)
1910 The Hotel Stockton was built
in Stockton, Ca. in the Mission Revival style.
(SFC, 4/28/05, p.A14)
1910 The Thorsen House in
Berkeley, California, was designed by Charles Sumner Greene and Henry
Mather Greene. In 1943 it became the home of the Sigma Phi fraternity.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.D1)
1910 Gus Vollmer, town marshal of
Berkeley Ca., instituted the first bicycle partrols by police officers.
(SFC, 4/29/08, p.A1)
1910 In Scotia, Ca., the Pacific
Lumber Co. built Mill B to process old growth redwood. The mill was
closed in 2001.
(SSFC, 5/13/01, p.A4)
1910 Henry Murphy purchased 375
acres of Big Sur, Ca., from Tom Slate. The area was known as Slate’s
Hot Springs. The Esselen Indian tribe had used the area as their burial
ground and provided the Esalen name for the institute that was later
established there after work crews provided highway access in the 1930s.
(SSFC, 6/16/02, p.A17)(Econ, 12/22/07, p.74)
1910 The first California
community college opened in Fresno.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)
1910 The Suisun City Railroad
Station was built about this time in Suisun City, Ca.
(Hem., Nov.’95, p.91)
1910 Hiram Johnson was elected as
governor of California. He promised to rid California politics of the
Southern Pacific Railroad influence.
(Smith., 5/95, p.94)(WSJ, 3/3/98, p.A16)(SFC,
4/18/98, p.A1)
1910 The Oklahoma State
Reformatory was built of granite from Wildcat Mountain by the first 60
inmates who arrived in covered wagons.
(WSJ, 11/2/05, p.A9)
1910 A double-hinged folding purse
became popular in Paris and transferred over to the US.
(SFC,11/12/97, Z1 p.7)
1910 American women began buying
most of their dresses in ready-to-wear shops and Edmund Fairchild began
publishing Women's Wear Daily for the garment industry.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, Z1 p.8)
1910 Domestic servants were the
2nd largest employee group in developed countries at this time.
(Wired, 8/96, p.120)
1910 The Urban League was formed
to help Southern black Americans adjust to city living in the North.
(HNQ, 6/3/99)
1910 Honus Wagner played baseball
(Louisville Colonels & Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1897-1917) and had
his baseball card pulled from cigarette packs. His cards thus became
rare and by 1991 sold for $451, 000.
(WSJ, 9/20/96, p.B1)
1910 The lively cork-centered ball
made its debut in baseball.
(WSJ, 9/4/98, p.A1)
1910 In the boxing heavyweight
championship between Jack Johnson, a black man, and white challenger,
Jim Jeffries, it is believed that Jack London coined the phrase "Great
White Hope" while covering the fight.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.A17)
1910 Otto Wallach (d.1931), German
chemist, won the Nobel Prize.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1910 Woodrow Wilson ran for
governor of New Jersey.
(WSJ, 2/27/98, p.A12)
1910 US General Leonard Wood
(b.1860) was named Chief of Staff of the Army, the only medical officer
to ever hold the position.
(www.wood.army.mil/MGLeonardwood.htm)
1910 The US census categorized the
population as "White, Black, Mulatto, Chinese, Japanese, and other."
(SFC,12/26/97, p.A21)
1910 An amendment to the
Immigration Act of 1907 barred disease carriers from entry into the
United States. After Congress amended the Immigration Act, criminals,
paupers, anarchists, and disease carriers were forbidden to enter the
United States.
(HNQ, 5/20/99)
1910 California built a dam at
Crane Valley near Yosemite creating a lake called the Crane Valley
Reservoir. A local lumber company polluted the lake killing all the
fish. The lake was restocked with bass and renamed Bass Lake.
(SSFC, 7/16/06, p.G8)
1910 Gambling in Nevada was
outlawed.
(SFEC, 5/10/98, DB p.64)
1910 Tennessee passed a
Prohibition law that gave distillers one year to dismantle their
operations. George Dickel's operations moved to Kentucky and Jack
Daniel's to Missouri and Alabama. Prohibition knocked both out of
business in 1920.
(SFC, 2/04/04, p.D2)
1910 The US Salomon Brothers
financial firm was founded. By 2001 it was folded into Citigroup. In
2001 Charles R. Geisst authored "The Last Partnerships."
(WSJ, 5/31/01, p.A14)
1910 Financiers in support of
federal supervision of the banking system in the US held a clandestine
meeting at the exclusive Jekyll Island Club off the coast of Georgia
that eventually led to the formation of the Federal Reserve System.
(WSJ, 5/8/95, p.A-14)
1910 There was a murder in Florida
later described by Peter Matthiessen (b.1927) in his 1997 book "Lost
Man’s River." It was part of his Watson trilogy. The first part was
titled "Killing Mr. Watson" (1990).
(SFC,11/22/97, p.D1)(SFEC,12/797, p.B11)
1910 Joyce Clyde Hall (b.1891) of
Nebraska and his brother began selling greeting cards In Kansas City,
Mo. This was the beginning of Hallmark Cards.
(http://pressroom.hallmark.com/comprehensive_timline.html)
1910 Henry Ford opened a new plant
in Highland Park, Mich., the largest plant in the world. The retail
price of the Model T dropped to $780.
(ON, 3/03, p.3)
1910 The Nelson McCoy Sanitary
Stoneware Co. was founded in Roseville, Ohio. In 1933 the name was
changed to the Nelson McCoy Pottery Co. and it stayed in business until
1990.
(SFC, 8/10/05, p.G4)
1910 Nils August Johanson founded
Swedish Hospital in Seattle. His daughter, Katherine, married Elmer
Nordstrom in 1934 and helped build the Nordstrom apparel chain.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.C15)
1910 In Washington state Axel
Uddenberg opened Gig Harbor’s first general store. In the 1960s it
served as a dance and music hall. In 1973 Peter Stanley bought the
place and turned it into the Tides Tavern.
(SSFC, 9/2/07, p.D8)
1910 John D. Rockefeller gave $1
million for the creation of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission to
coordinate activity for the cure and prevention of hookworm, which
infected some 40% of school-age southern children.
(WSJ, 1/16/03, p.A2)
1910 The Black & Decker tool
company was founded.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A25)
1910 Alfred C. Fuller took his
brush business national with ads in a national magazine for salesmen.
(WSJ, 11/3/99, p.B1)
1910 The Hearst Corp. established
The National Magazine Company Ltd. In the United Kingdom.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1910 The Thomas A. Edison Inc. was
formed.
(SFC, 7/29/98, Z1 p.23)
1910 The Western Pacific Railroad
opened passenger service between San Francisco and Salt Lake City.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, DB p.30)
1910 The Owen automobile offered a
top, windshield, electric horn, headlamps and a tail lamp as standard
features.
1910 Italian automaker Fiat began
building cars in the US and continued until 1918.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1910 The first rearview mirrors
were used by an Indianapolis 500 driver who won the race.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1910 Czar Nicholas of Russia
purchased a Delaunay-Belleville with a backseat heater that used hot
water from the engine. Most Americans used buffalo robes.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1910 Bill Keys (d.1969) began
working in the Desert Queen Mine in Southern California. He eventually
inherited the mine which went bust and homesteaded a ranch by the same
name. He later was convicted on a murder charge but after 5 years in
prison was pardoned after Eric Stanley Gardner, author of the Perry
Mason books, interceded on his behalf.
(Sp., 5/96, p.126)
1910 The industrial force exceeded
the number of people engaged in agriculture in the Belgium and Japan.
(V.D.-H.K.p.284)
c1910 The 6-day workweek faded to
a 5-day workweek.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, Z1 p.8)
1910 The US black population
totaled 9,828,000 people while the mulatto count was 2,051,000.
(SFC, 5/3/96, A-25)
1910 T. Hunt Morgan, a geneticist
at Columbia Univ., used fruit flies to show that traits get passed down
through genes and chromosomes.
(SFC, 6/27/00, p.A17)
1910 Miss Henrietta S. Leavitt
(1868-1921), American astronomer at Harvard, discovered that there is a
definite relation between the observed luminosities of pulsating
cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds and their pulsation periods: the
brighter a star is, the longer it takes to go through its cycle.
(SCTS, p.174)
1910 The tail of Halley’s Comet
brushed Earth and entrepreneurs made some quick money selling "comet
gas masks" to protect people from the poisonous cyanogen gas that was
discovered coming off the comet.
(SFC, 3/28/97, p.A12)
1910 Barnum Brown, fossil hunter
of the American Museum of Natural History, found the Red Deer River
fossil site in Alberta, Canada.
(T.E.-J.B. p.25)
1910 A 100-kg aquamarine stone was
found in Minas Gerais, Brazil, whose value in 1996 would exceed US$25
million.
(USA Today, OW, 4/22/96, p.13)
1910 Fires swept across the
Western US and burned over 8 million acres.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A3)
1910 Jack Daniel, whiskey
producer, died of blood poisoning. His nephew Lem Motlow took over the
business.
(SFC, 2/04/04, p.D2)
1910 Winslow Homer (b.1836),
American painter, died. His work "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)" was done
between 1873-1876. His sea painting from the rocky coast of New England
captured the power of the sea on the people who confronted it and
depended on it. In 2002 Patricia Junker and Sarah Burns authored
"Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler."
(WSJ, 4/2/96, p.A-12)(HN, 2/24/99)(WSJ, 7/21/00,
p.W2)(WSJ, 1/10/03, p.W7)
1910 Namikawa Sosuke (b.1847), top
Japanese cloisonne artist, died.
(WSJ, 9/24/04,
p.W10)(www.widener.edu/?pageId=436&vobId=1040&pm=566)
1910 Australia’s government began
removing Aboriginal children from their families, in what was
considered to be best for the children. The race was later estimated to
number about 60,000 nationally at this time, and was said to be doomed
to extinction. The policy continued into the 1970s. As many as 100,000
children were seized from their parents creating what was later called
the "stolen generation."
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A10)(SFC, 5/26/00, p.A20)(AP,
1/30/08)
1910 Paris was menaced by a great
flood. "The streets were like rivers, the squares, like great lakes."
(SFEC, 8/25/96, BR p.5)(SFEC, 9/21/97, BR p.4)
1910 In France Le Divan bookstore
was founded in the Left Bank of Paris. It was put up for sale in 1996
by its owners, the Gallimard publishing house.
(SFEC, 10/20/96, T9)
1910 In France a hairdresser
devised the permanent wave for hair.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R14)
1910 The French built a railroad
line to link Haiphong, Vietnam, to Kunming, the capital of China's
Yunnan province.
(Econ, 11/8/03, p.42)
1910 French Equatorial Africa was
a former administrative grouping of four French territories in west
central Africa. It was first formed by the federation of 3 French
imperial colonies: Gabon, Middle Congo, and Ubangi-Shari-Chad. It
comprised a total area of 969,112 square miles (2,500,000 sq km). Chad
was separated from Ubangi-Shari in 1920 to form a fourth colony.
(www.discoverfrance.net)
1910 In Germany there was an
important show on Islamic art in Munich.
(WSJ, 12/11/97, p.A21)
1910 In India Laxmanrao Kirloskar
banded together 25 workers and their families and succeeded in
transforming a barren expanse in Aundh state into his dream village.
Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL), the first Kirloskar venture at
Kirloskarvadi was to become the base for all of the Kirloskar Group's
subsequent enterprises. It began as the only Indian company with its
own products, a fodder cutter and iron plough, which competed with
British products.
(http://kirloskarapps.kirloskar.com/kirloskar/web/11$M1.html)(Econ,
6/3/06, Survey p.8)
1910 Degania Aleph, Israel’s first
kibbutz, was founded by 12 pioneers, while the area was still under
Ottoman control. In 2007 it joined a growing proportion of kibbutzim
abandoning egalitarian socialism in favor of a self-taxing regime
combined with free-market forces.
(SSFC, 3/4/07, p.A15)
1910 In Japan Kida Sadakichi wrote
"The Teaching of National History."
(AM, Mar/Apr 97 p.34)
1910 In Korea the Chosun Dynasty
ended when the Japanese deposed the royal family after a 518-year
reign. King Sunjong was the final ruler. The occupational force allowed
the monarchy to retain its ceremonial court for several years.
(SFC, 5/9/01, p.C18)
1910 The Mexican Revolution became
a consuming civil war.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.D8)
1910 Montenegro, a principality in
the 19th century, was recognized as a kingdom.
(AP, 10/20/02)
1910 Manuel II, Portugal’s last
king, was overthrown and went into exile in England.
(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.C12)
1910 The reign of King
Chulalongkorn (Rama V) ended. He had introduced state corporations as a
way to modernize Thailand. Rama V lived in the Vimanmek Mansion in
Bangkok. It was made entirely of golden teak wood.
(Hem., Nov. '95, p.34)(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A12)
1910-1911 Piet Mondrian painted the symbolist
triptych "Evolution." It anticipated sci-fi comic-book illustration by
50 years.
(WSJ, 9/10/97, p.A20)
1910-1925 The Royal Art Glass Co. in New York City
made glass lamps.
(SFC, 8/5/98, Z1 p.3)
1910-1931 The Long Trail, which follows the crest of
the Green Mountains for 265 miles, was built and served as a model for
the Appalachian Trail.
(NH, 7/96, p.54)
1910-1939 In 2007 Katie Roiphe authored “Uncommon
Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary
Circles 1910-1939.”
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.P9)
1910-1970 More than 6 million southern blacks left
their rural homes in search of an urban "Promised Land" in the north.
The largest migration in American history was caused by the "push" of
hardships prevalent in the South--such as segregation, lynching and the
economic hopelessness of the sharecropping system--and the "pull" of
opportunity in the North. Plentiful industrial jobs, although sometimes
menial, often offered wages three times higher than did jobs in the
South. Glowing reports from friends and family already in the North
inspired increased migration. While racism, housing shortages and crime
often greeted the new arrivals, they also found organizations such as
the National Urban League and National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) dedicated to improving the lives of black
Americans.
(HNPD, 2/10/99)
1910-1981 Samuel Barber, American composer.
(DrEE, 9/28/96, p.5)
1910-1987 Gimbel’s department store stood on Herald
Square in NYC.
(SFC, 12/13/06, p.E3)
1910-1997 Dame C.V. Wedgwood, English historian: "An
educated man should know everything about something, and something
about everything."
(AP, 12/1/97)
1911 Jan 3, Joseph Rauh civil
rights activist: cofounded Americans for Democratic Action; member:
executive board of NAACP; general counsel: Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights, was born.
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1911 Jan 3, John Sturges director:
Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Magnificent
Seven, The Great Escape, Ice Station Zebra, The Eagle Has Landed, was
born.
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1911 Jan 5, Portugal expelled the
Jesuits.
(MC, 1/5/02)
1911 Jan 10, Two German cruisers,
the Emden and the Nurnberg, suppressed a native revolt on island of
Ponape in the Carolina Islands [Caroline Islands, east of the
Philippines] when they fired on the island and land troops.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1911 Jan 14, The USS Arkansas, the
largest U.S. battleship, was launched from the yards of NY Shipbuilding
Company.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1911 Jan 16, Jay Hanna Dean, aka
"Dizzy Dean," one of baseball's greatest pitchers, hall of fame, was
born.
(MC, 1/16/02)
1911 Jan 17, Francis Galton
(b.1822), English scientist, died. He was one of the first moderns to
present a carefully considered eugenics program. His work included the
invention of weather maps and the description of fingerprints. He also
developed a system for classifying human profiles using geometric
diagrams. He was a cousin of Charles Darwin and the founder of the
science of statistics. The idea of sterilizing human beings considered
as physical or mental undesirables stemmed from Galton’s ideas.
(NH, 6/97, p.18)(SFC, 8/28/97,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton)
1911 Jan 18, Naval aviation was
born when pilot Eugene B. Ely flew a Curtis Pusher biplane onto the
deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.a15)(SFC, 5/7/97, p.A15)(AP,
1/18/98)(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A19)
1911 Jan 22, Bruno Kreisky,
bandleader, chancellor (1970-83), was born in Austria.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1911 Jan 24, U.S. Cavalry was sent
to preserve the neutrality of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Civil
War.
(HN, 1/24/99)
1911 Jan 26, The Richard Strauss
opera "Der Rosenkavalier" premiered in Dresden, Germany.
(AP, 1/26/98)
1911 Jan 26, Glenn Curtiss piloted
the 1st successful hydroplane in San Diego.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1911 Jan 31, The German Reichstag
exempted royal families from tax obligations.
(HN, 1/31/99)
1911 Jan, A pair of U.S. Army
aviators dropped the first live bomb. The Mexican Revolution gave the
opportunity to use the airplane in actual combat. Airplanes had already
begun to replace balloons for battlefield observation.
(HNQ, 7/16/00)
1911 Feb 2, Johan J. "Jussi"
Bjorling, great Swedish tenor, was born. Now regarded by many as the
greatest opera tenor of the middle 20th Century.
(MC, 2/2/02)
1911 Feb 6, Ronald Reagan was born
in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan went on to become a film actor, governor
of California (1967-1975) and the 40th president of the United States
(1981-1989) and was credited with ending the Cold War.
(HN, 2/6/99)(AP, 2/6/08)
1911 Feb 6, 1st old-age home
opened in Prescott, Ariz.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1911 Feb 8, Elizabeth Bishop,
poet, was born.
(HN, 2/8/01)
1911 Feb 8, Victor Herbert's opera
"Natoma," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1911 Feb 8, US helped overthrow
President Miguel Devila of Honduras.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1911 Feb 17, The 1st hydroplane
flight to & from a ship was made by Glenn Curtiss in San Diego.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1911 Feb 19, Merle Oberon, film
actress, was born.
(HN, 2/19/01)
1911 Feb 21, Gustav Mahler
conducted his last concert.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1911 Feb 22, Canadian Parliament
voted to preserve the union with the British Empire.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1911 Feb 23, G. Mennen ("Soapy")
Williams, (Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60), was born in Detroit.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1911 Feb 28, Denis Burkitt,
British medical researcher, was born.
(HN, 2/28/01)
1911 Mar 1, Jose Ordonez was
elected the president of Uruguay.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1911 Mar 3, Jean Harlow (Harlean
Carpenter)(actress: Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Bombshell, Dinner at
Eight, China Seas, Libeled Lady), was born.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1911 Mar 3, The 1st US federal
cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opened at Jefferson Barracks
National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1911 Mar 4, Victor Berger of
Wisconsin became the 1st socialist congressman in US.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1911 Mar 7, The United States sent
20,000 troops to the Mexican border in the wake of the Mexican
Revolution.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1911 Mar 8, Alan Hovhaness,
composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo), was born in Somerville, Mass.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1911 Mar 8, International Women's
Day was established when American working women demonstrated for their
rights as workers and women.
(HFA, '96, p.26)(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A32)
1911 Mar 9, The funding for five
new battleships was added to the British military defense budget.
(HN, 3/9/98)
1911 Mar 11, The Cadillac Division
of General Motors demonstrated the first electric self starter,
enabling women to drive alone. Charles Kettering created the first
successful electric self-starter for Cadillac. It was introduced in the
1912 model. The perfection of the self-starter by inventor Charles
Kettering enormously expanded the market for the automobile. Kettering,
born in Londonville, Ohio, in 1876, had invented an electric cash
register motor while at the National Cash Register Company in 1906. In
1909 he organized the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, later
known as Delco, and soon made notable improvements in automobile
ignition and lighting systems. His self-starter was introduced in the
1912 Cadillac. He founded the Charles F. Kettering Foundation dedicated
to natural science research and was co-founder of the Sloan-Kettering
Institute for Cancer Research. Kettering died in 1958.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)(F, 10/7/96, p.67)(HNQ, 3/3/99)
1911 Mar 12, Dr. Fletcher of
Rockefeller Institute discovered the cause of infantile paralysis.
(HN, 3/12/98)
1911 Mar 12, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz,
president of Mexico, was born.
(HN, 3/12/98)
1911 Mar 13, LaFayette Ron Hubbard
(L. Ron Hubbard, d.1986), sci-fi writer, scientologist founder of
Scientology (Dyanetics), was born.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.A13)(MC, 3/13/02)
1911 Mar 13, The Supreme Court
approved the corporate tax law.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1911 Mar 16, Josef Mengele, MD,
PhD, SS ("The Angel of Death at Auschwitz"), was born in Gunzburg,
Germany.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1911 Mar 18, Theodore Roosevelt
opened the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix, Ariz., the largest dam in the U.S.
to date.
(HN, 3/18/98)
1911 Mar 18, A vote was held for
the incorporation of Daly City, Ca. The voting place was the upstairs
backroom of Jack Letlos’ Restaurant on Mission Rd. The vote was for
132, against 130. Also passed in the vote was the new official name of
Daly City in honor of John Daly.
(GTP, 1973, p.84)(LaPen, 12/86, p.4)
1911 Mar 20, Winter Garden Theater
opened at 1634 Broadway, NYC.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1911 Mar 20, Russian Premier
Stolypin resigned in St. Petersburg.
(HN, 3/20/98)
1911 Mar 24, Penal code reform
abolished corporal punishment in Denmark.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1911 Mar 25, The Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 immigrant workers. 13 girls survived
the fire that broke out on the top three floors of the 10-story New
York’s Asch Building as the workday was ending. No one knows what
caused the fire, but it spread quickly, fueled by the fabric scraps and
sewing machine oil used in the manufacture women’s blouses. The three
avenues of escape were almost immediately clogged with panicked
workers, mostly young immigrant women. Then, to the horror of
spectators seven stories below, the desperate women began to jump to
their deaths. Appalled by the tragedy, the New York State legislature
formed a commission whose findings led to the creation of new fire and
building codes that were soon adopted in cities throughout America.
(HNPD, 3/25/00)(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A8)(SFC, 2/24/99,
p.C4)(AP, 3/23/08)
1911 Mar 26, Tennessee Williams
(d.1983), American dramatist, was born in Columbus, Miss. His plays
included "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "A Streetcar Name Desire."
(HN, 3/26/01)(AP, 3/26/02)(http://tinyurl.com/s8zm5)
1911 Mar 28, M.K. Ciurlionis
(b.1875), Lithuanian artist and composer, died.
(LC, 1998, p.12)
1911 Apr 1, Gunther Rennert, opera
director, producer, was born in Essen, Germany.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1911 Apr 3, The US Supreme Court
ruled against Dr. Miles Medical Co., which had sued a distributor for
selling at cut rate prices. In 1937 Congress passed the Free Trade Law
letting states selectively allow price fixing to protect small
retailers.
(http://supreme.justia.com/us/220/373/)(WSJ,
8/18/08, p.A12)
1911 Apr 8, Melvin Calvin, US
chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961), was born.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1911 Apr 12, Pierre Prier
completed the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56
minutes.
(HN, 4/12/99)
1911 Apr 13, Nino Sanzogno,
composer, was born.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1911 Apr 18, George Huntington
Hartford II, heir (A&P), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1911 Apr 21, Leonard Warren,
baritone, Met 1939-60, was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1911 Apr 23, Simone Simon, French
actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love), was born.
(MC, 4/23/02)
1911 Apr 30, Portugal approved
woman suffrage.
(MC, 4/30/02)
1911 May 8, Robert Johnson,
bluesman, was born in Mississippi.
(HT, 5/97, p.40),
1911 May 8, England signed a
treaty with China making opium the main trading commodity with the
Chinese.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)
1911 May 11, Doodles Weaver,
comedian (Spike Jones and City Slickers), was born in LA, Calif.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1911 May 13, NY Giant Fred Merkle
was 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st).
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1911 May 15, Max Frisch (d.1991),
Swiss architect and writer, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Frisch)
1911 May 15, The Supreme Court
ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in
violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The anti-trust suit led to the
dissolution of Standard Oil Co. of John D. Rockefeller. From its
remains 34 new companies were formed that included Exxon, Mobil, Amoco,
Chevron, Arco and Conoco. Rockefeller’s quarter interest in the parent
turned into a quarter interest in all the offspring. The action of the
supreme court was based n part on findings by Ida Tarbell, who
published articles in McClure’s Magazine regarding Rockefeller and
Standard Oil. In 2008 Steve Weinberg authored “Taking on the Trust: The
Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller.”
(AP, 5/15/97)(WSJ, 5/8/98, p.W10)(WSJ, 3/28/08, p.W5)
1911 May 16, Remains of a
Neanderthal man were found in Jersey, UK.
(MC, 5/16/02)
1911 May 16, Zeppelin
"Deutschland" was wrecked at Dusseldorf.
(MC, 5/16/02)
1911 May 17, Maureen O’Sullivan
(d.1998), film actress, was born in Boyle, Ireland.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.C2)
1911 May 18, Joseph Vernon "Big
Joe" Turner, blues singer, was born in Kansas City, MO.
(HN, 5/18/01)
1911 May 18, Composer Gustav
Mahler (50) died in Vienna, Austria. His wife Alma Schindler married
Walter Gropius in 1915. Mahler left his 10th symphony unfinished. A
1996 recording was made based on work by Remo Mazzetti Jr. who in turn
based his work on the late Deryck Cooke. In 2004 Cornell Univ. Press
published “Gustav Mahler: Letters to His Wife.”
(SFEC, 5/18/97, DB p.52)(AP, 5/18/01)(WSJ, 12/15/04,
p.D10)
1911 May 19, Maurice Ravel’s opera
"L'Heure Espagnole," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1911 May 23, The NY Public Library
building at 5th Avenue was dedicated by Pres Taft.
(www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID067.htm)
1911 May 25, Porfolio Diaz,
President of Mexico, resigned his office under pressure from the
revolution.
(HN, 5/25/98)(SC, 5/25/02)
1911 May 27, Hubert Humphrey,
senator, was born. He served as VP (1965-69) to Lyndon Johnson (38th
VP), and was a presidential candidate in 1968. "The greatest gift of
life is friendship and I have received it."
(HN, 5/27/98)(AP, 2/28/01)(MC, 5/27/02)
1911 May 27, Vincent Price, actor,
was born in St. Louis, Mo. He became best known for his role in movies
of Edgar Allen Poe horror stories. He stared in The Fly.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)(HN, 5/27/99)
1911 May 27, The Coney Island
attraction "Dreamland" was destroyed by fire. The biggest ballroom in
the world was located at the end of the Dreamland Pier from 1904-1911.
(http://history.amusement-parks.com/dreamlandfire.htm)(Econ, 12/22/07,
p.91)
1911 May 29, The first running of
the Indianapolis 500. Ray Harroun won at 74.59 mph (120 kph). [see May
30]
(HN, 5/29/98)(SC, 5/29/02)
1911 May 29, William Schwenck
Gilbert (74), writer (Gilbert & Sullivan), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1911 May 30, The first
long-distance auto race in Indianapolis was won by Ray Harroun. One
driver was killed and the average speed was 74.4 mph. [see May 29]
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)(AP, 5/30/97)
1911 Jun 4, Gold was discovered in
Alaska’s Indian Creek.
(HN, 6/4/98)
1911 Jun 9, Carry Amelia Moore
Gloyd Nation (b.1846), American temperance leader, died in Leavenworth,
Kansas. She was buried in the Belton City Cemetery, Belton, Cass
County, Missouri. Carry Nation was a social reformer, saloon smasher
and scourge of barkeepers and drinkers everywhere.
(www.kshs.org/exhibits/carry/carry8.htm)
1911 Jun 10, Queen Wilhelmina
opened the Rembrandt house in Amsterdam.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1911 Jun 13, Luis W. Alvarez
(d.1988), physicist (Nobel-1968), was born in SF, Ca.
(MC, 6/13/02)(www.britannica.com)
1911 Jun 21, Albert Hirschfield,
illustrator, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1911 Jun 21, Porfirio Diaz, the
ex-president of Mexico, exiled himself to Paris.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1911 Jun 22, King George V of
England crowned at Westminster Abbey.
(SFEM, 1/26/97, p.40)(HN, 6/22/98)
1911 Jun 28, Samuel J. Battle
became the first African-American policeman in New York City.
(HN, 6/28/98)
1911 Jun 29, Klaus E.J. Fuchs,
German nuclear physicist, spy, was born.
(MC, 6/29/02)
1911 Jun 29, Bernard Herrmann,
composer, was born.
(MC, 6/29/02)
1911 Jun 30, Czeslaw Milosz
(d.2004), Polish poet and critic and Nobel winner, was born in
Lithuania. In 2001 his Polish "Milosz’s ABC’s" was published in
English.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.C1)(HN, 6/30/01)
1911 Jul 1, A proclamation removed
"Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1911 Jul 4, 105øF
(41øC) at Vernon, Vermont (state record).
(Maggio, 98)
1911 Jul 4, 106øF
(41øC) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record).
(Maggio, 98)
1911 Jul 4, Ty Cobb went 0 for 4
& ended a 40 game hit streak. White Sox Ed Walsh stopped Ty Cobb's
40-game hitting streak.
(Maggio, 98)
1911 Jul 5, George Pompidou, Prime
Minister of France, 1968, was born.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1911 Jul 7, Gian-Carlo Menotti,
composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), was born in Italy.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1911 Jul 14, Terry Thomas, actor
(It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), was born in England.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1911 Jul 16, Ginger Rogers
(d.1995), actress and dancer, was born as Virginia Katherine McMath.
(HN, 7/16/01)(MC, 7/16/02)
1911 Jul 18, Hume Cronyn, actor
(World According to Garp, Cocoon), was born in London, Ontario.
(MC, 7/18/02)
1911 Jul 20, Generals Henry Wilson
and Auguste Dubail signed a plan for British Expeditionary army in case
of war with Germany.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1911 Jul 21, Marshall McLuhan
(d.1980), Canadian English professor and communication theorist, author
of "The Medium is the Message," was born. He wrote the book:
"Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man." "Only the vanquished
remember history."
(V.D.-H.K.p.357)(HN, 7/21/98)(AP, 4/11/00)
1911 Jul 24, Hiram Bingham,
American explorer, was led by local guides to a Lost City of the Incas.
He explored several Inca ruins and the mountaintop citadel of Machu
Pichu. He was in search of the lost city of Vilcabamba, the Inca’s
legendary last refuge from the invading Spaniards. Bingham was an
archeologist from Yale and later served as a Connecticut governor and
US senator. In 1948 Bingham authored “Lost City of the Incas.”
(NG, Oct. 1988, p. 543)(SFC, 5/13/98,
p.C4)(www.tambotours.com/binghamtrek.html)(WSJ, 11/1/08, p.W18)
1911 Jul 28, Ann Doran, actress
(Longstreet, Shirley), was born in Amarillo, Tx.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1911 Jul 31, George Liberace,
violinist (Liberace Show), was born in Menasha, Wisc.
(MC, 7/31/02)
1911 Aug 1, Konrad Duden (b.1829),
German philologist, died. His 1880 dictionary represents the start of
the Duden series and included 28,000 words on 187 pages.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Duden)
1911 Aug 3, Airplanes were used
for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes
reconnoitered Turkish lines near Tripoli.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1911 Aug 6, Lucille Ball (d.1989),
American actress and comedian, was born. "I don’t know anything about
luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else: hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and
what isn’t."
(AP, 3/12/98)(HN, 8/6/98)
1911 Aug 10, The House of Lords in
Great Britain gave up its veto power, making the House of Commons the
more powerful House.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1911 Aug 12, Cantinflas (d.1993),
comedian and film star, was born in Mexico City as Mario Moreno.
(HFA, '96, p.36)(HN, 8/12/98)(MC, 8/12/02)
1911 Aug 15, Procter and Gamble
unveiled its Crisco shortening.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1911 Aug 21, Leonardo da Vinci’s
“Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum. It had hung there for
more than 100 years. Vincenzo Perugia, a former Louvre employee, stole
the painting. It turned up in Italy two years later. In 2009 R.A.
Scotti authored “Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa.”
(AP, 8/21/06)(SSFC, 5/10/09, Books p.H5)
1911 Aug 22, President William
Taft vetoed a joint resolution of Congress granting statehood to
Arizona. Taft vetoed the resolution because he believed a
provision in the state constitution authorizing the recall of judges
was a blow at the independence of the judiciary. The offending clause
was removed an Arizona was admitted to statehood on February 14, 1912.
Afterward, the state restored the article in its constitution.
(HNQ, 11/21/99)
1911 Aug 25, Jacopo Napoli,
composer, was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1911 Aug 31, Anthony Fokker's
demonstrated the aircraft "Snip."
(MC, 8/31/01)
1911 Aug, Calbraith Perry Rodgers
stayed aloft longer than any other contestant at the Chicago
International Aviation Meet. Rodgers had recently purchased a new
Wright airplane, the 1st ever sold to a private citizen.
(ON, 10/06, p.10)
1911 Sep 1, M. Fourny set a world
aircraft distance record of 720 km.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1911 Sep 9, An airmail route
opened between London and Windsor.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1911 Sep 13, Bill Monroe, musician
and the Father of Bluegrass, was born.
(HN, 9/13/00)
1911 Sep 14, Russian Premier Piotr
Stolypin was mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev
opera house.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1911 Sep 17, Cigar-smoking
Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879-1912) set off from Sheepshead Bay, New
York, on the first flight across America. Rodgers, sponsored by the Vin
Fiz grape drink company, flew the fragile Wright B biplane in pursuit
of a $50,000 prize offered to the first person to make a
transcontinental flight in 30 days or less. Rodgers failed to win the
prize because his 4,321-mile flight took 84 days—of which only 3 days,
10 hours and 4 minutes was actual flying time! His average speed was
51.56 miles per hour. By the time he landed at Long Beach, California,
on November 5, Rodgers had made 70 crash landings, suffered numerous
minor injuries and had rebuilt his Vin Fiz so completely that only one
strut and the rudder were its original equipment.
(HNPD, 9/18/98)(ON, 10/06, p.12)
1911 Sep 18, Russian Premier Piotr
Stolypin (b.1862) died four days after being shot at the Kiev opera
house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff. As governor of the Saratov
province, Stolypin ruthlessly suppressed local peasant uprisings, and
helped to squelch the revolutionary upheavals of 1905.
(HN,
9/18/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Stolypin)
1911 Sep 19, William Golding
(d.1993), novelist best known for Lord of the Flies, was born. He won
the Nobel Prize in 1983.
(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1911 Sep 19, Red Tuesday. 20,000
protested for universal rights.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1911 Sep 23, Frank Moss (d.2003),
liberal Utah Democratic Senator (1958-1976), was born in Salt Lake City.
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1911 Sep 23, Second International
Aviation Meet opened in New York.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1911 Sep 24, Konstantin Chernenko,
president of the Soviet Union 1984-1985, was born.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1911 Sep 25, Italy declared war on
Turkey. [see Sep 30]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1911 Sep 29, Walter Brookins set
an American record by flying 192 miles from Chicago to Springfield,
Ill., making two stops.
(NPub, 2002, p.8)
1911 Sep 30, Italy declared war on
Turkey over control of Tripoli. [see Sep 25]
(HN, 9/30/98)
1911 Sep, Ishi (d.1916), a native
California Indian, walked out of the forest near Oroville, Ca. He
underwent examination at UC medical center in San Francisco and liked
to practice "drawing bow" on Parnassus Heights.
(SFC, 7/14/96, Z1 p.2)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W4)(SSFC,
2/8/04, p.M1)
1911 Oct 4, The 1st public
elevator began service at London's Earl's Court Metro Station.
(MC, 10/4/01)
1911 Oct 5, Italian troops
occupied Tripoli.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1911 Oct 10, California voters
approved amendments by Republican Gov. Hiram Johnson that included the
recall, initiative and referendum process as part of his progressive
reform package. Almost 2/3 of 178,115 voters affirmed the amendments.
(SFC, 5/18/98, p.A7)(SSFC, 8/3/03, p.D1)(SSFC,
10/5/03, p.E3)
1911 Oct 10-1911 Oct 14,
Revolution in China began with a bomb explosion and the discovery of
revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen
overthrew China's Manchu dynasty. The revolutionary movement spread
rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the
last Ch'ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. He was interned in
Russia and China for 14 years after WW II and later worked as a
gardener. By October 26, the Chinese Republic would be proclaimed, and
on December 4, Premier Yuan Shih-K'ai would sign a truce with rebel
general Li Yuan-hung. The Revolution declared that the art housed in
the Forbidden City was to be for the public. The day became a holiday
known as Double 10 or national Day.
(WSJ, 12/29/95, p.A-11)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A8)(AP,
10/10/97)(SFC, 10/10/98, p.A21)
1911 Oct 14, Le Duc Tho (d.1990),
North Vietnamese representative at Paris peace talk (1970-72), was
born. He declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
(AP, 10/16/98)(MC, 10/14/01)
1911 Oct 14, John Marshall Harlan
(b.1833), US Supreme Court Justice, died after serving 34 years. A
memoir written by his wife, Malvina, was later discovered and published
in 2002: "Some Memories of a Long Life (1854-1911)"
(WSJ, 5/28/02,
p.D7)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/44/)
1911 Oct 14, Revolution in China
began with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary
headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread rapidly
through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last
Ch’ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1911 Oct 20, Will Rogers Jr, actor
(Down to Earth), was born in NY.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1911 Oct 20, Roald Amundsen set
out on a race to the South Pole.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1911 Oct 24, Clarence M. Kelley,
FBI head, was born.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1911 Oct 24, Sonny Terry, blues
performer, was born.
(HN, 10/24/00)
1911 Oct 24, Robert Scott's
expedition left Cape Evans for South Pole.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1911 Oct 25, In Chicago Ada and
Minna Everleigh closed their Everleigh Club, a high-end brothel, which
they had begun in 1910. In 2007 Karen Abbott authored “Sin in the
Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's
Soul.”
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.P8)
1911 Oct 26, Mahalia Jackson
(d.1972), American gospel singer, was born. "It's easy to be
independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you
haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test."
(AP, 3/18/99)(MC, 10/26/01)
1911 Oct 29, American newspaperman
Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, died in Charleston, S.C. In 2002
Denis Brian authored "Pulitzer: A Life."
(AP, 10/29/97)(WSJ, 1/30/02, p.A16)
1911 Oct, The Philadelphia
Athletics, forerunners of the Oakland A’s, won the World Series,
beating the New York Giants of the National League, today’s SF Giants.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)
1911 Oct, In China the Revolution
overthrew the Qing Dynasty and declared that the art housed in the
Forbidden City was to be for the public.
(WSJ, 12/29/95, p.A-11)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A8)
1911 Oct, Italian troops began
deporting Libyans to Italian islands in the Adriatic. More then 5,000
Libyans were deported between 1911 and WW II in an effort to break the
resistance.
(AFP, 10/26/07)
1911 Nov 1, Italian planes
performed the first aerial bombing on Tanguira oasis in Libya. Lt.
Giulio Cavotti dropped a hand grenade on an oasis outside of Tripoli.
In 2001 Sven Lindqvist authored "A History of Bombing."
(HN, 11/1/98)(SFC, 4/22/01, BR p.3)
1911 Nov 5, Roy Rogers, singing
cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show), was born. He was born as
Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati where his father worked in a shoe
factory. He died in 1998 at age 86.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A1,2)(MC, 11/5/01)
1911 Nov 5, Calbraith P. Rodgers
ended the first transcontinental flight; 49 days from New York to
Pasadena, Calif.
(HN, 11/5/98)
1911 Nov 5, Italy attacked Turkish
North-Africa (Libya), and took Tripoli and Cyrenaica. First use
of a plane dropping bombs. [see Nov 1]
(MC, 11/5/01)
1911 Nov 6, Maine became a dry
state.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1911 Nov 10, President Taft ended
a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour.
(HN, 11/10/00)
1911 Nov 10, Andrew Carnegie
formed the Carnegie Corp. for scholarly & charitable works.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1911 Nov 10, The Imperial
government of China retook Nanking.
(HN, 11/10/99)
1911 Nov 11, In Chicago a man died
of heat prostration.
(SFEC,10/19/97, Z1 p.2)
1911 Nov 12, Buck Clayton, jazz
trumpeter, was born.
(HN, 11/12/00)
1911 Nov 12, In Chicago two people
froze to death. The temperature had dropped 61 degrees overnight.
(SFEC,10/19/97, Z1 p.2)
1911 Nov 18, Alfred Binet, French
child psychologist, died.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1911 Nov 19, New York received the
first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1911 Nov 20, Gustav Mahler's "Das
Lied von der Erde" premiered in Munich.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1911 Nov 21, Suffragettes stormed
Parliament in London. All were arrested and all chose prison terms.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1911 Nov 27, Audience threw
over-ripe vegetables at actors for the 1st recorded time in US.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1911 Nov 28, Zapata proclaimed
Plan of Ayala, Mexico.
(MC, 11/28/01)
1911 Nov 29, Konrad Fuchs, German
atomic physicist, was born. He worked on developing the atomic bomb in
the United States during World War II while giving its secrets to the
Soviet Union.
(HN, 11/23/99)
1911 Dec 3, Nino Rota, composer
(Torquemada), was born in Milan, Italy. He composed operas and
orchestral music and taught at Italy's Bari Conservatory. He also wrote
scores for Federico Fellini and other film directors.
(WSJ, 3/5/99, p.W10)(MC, 12/3/01)
1911 Dec 4, The US Supreme Court
in Grigbsy v. Russell established the policy owner’s right to transfer
an insurance policy.
(Econ, 6/13/09, p.78)(http://tinyurl.com/nj4pe5)
1911 Dec 10, Chester "Chet"
Huntley, American broadcast journalist, was born. He teamed with
David Brinkley to anchor TV nightly news.
(HN, 12/10/99)
1911 Dec 10, Cal Rodgers
(1879-1912) completed the first US transcontinental flight in the
Wright EX Vin Fiz.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers)(NPub, 2002, p.8)
1911 Dec 10, Joseph Dalton Hooker
(b.1817), British botonist and explorer, died.
(WSJ, 5/10/08,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker)
1911 Dec 11, Naguib Mahfouz
(d.2006), Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist, was born.
(HN, 12/11/00)(SFC, 8/31/06, p.A13)
1911 Dec 13, Kenneth Patchen,
American poet and author, was born. His works included "Before the
Brave" and "Hurrah for Anything."
(HN, 12/13/99)
1911 Dec 14, Norwegian explorer
Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, beating an
expedition led by Robert F. Scott. The best book on Scott and Amundsen
is by Roland Huntford "Scott and Amundsen."
(AP, 12/14/97)(SFEC, 1/24/99, BR p.1,6)
1911 Dec 18, Jules Dassin,
director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday), was born in Middletown, Ct.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1911 Dec 21, Joshua Gibson,
baseball player for the Negro Leagues, Home-Run King, was born.
Segregated baseball lasted sixty years in the United States.
(HN, 12/21/98)
1911 Dec 23, Emmanuel
Wolf-Ferrari's opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" was produced in Berlin.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1911 Dec 30, Sun Yat-sen was
elected the first president of the Republic of China.
(AP, 12/30/97)
1911 Dec 31, Helene Dutrieu won
the Femina aviation cup in Etampes. She set a distance record for women
at 158 miles.
(HN, 12/31/98)
1911 The "Mona Lisa" was stolen
from the Louvre. The theft was made into a film in 1997 based on the
Seymour Reit book: "The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa."
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.B5)
1911 Marc Chagall painted Russia
with "Donkeys and Others," "The Russian Village of the Moon" and "I and
the Village."
(WSJ, 5/11/95, p. A-14)(SFC, 6/4/96, p.E5)
1911 Vasily Kandinsky painted
"Compositions IV & V." "This airy, whitish, light-filled canvas
abounds with imagery from Kandinsky’s Russian childhood..."
(WSJ, 2/8/95), p.A-12)
1911 Roger de la Fresnaye painted
"Artillery."
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.D5)
1911 Henri Matisse painted "The
Blue Window."
(WSJ, 1/14/00, p.W12)
1911 Egon Schiele, Austrian
expressionist, painted "Dead City III."
(SFC, 1/9/98, p.A7)
1911 Rev. William Wolcott willed
paintings by Monet, Pissarro and 14 other artists to the Daniel White
Fund to "create and gratify a public taste for fine art, particularly
among the people of Lawrence." He requested that the paintings be
housed in a museum until a gallery was built.
(WSJ, 9/9/99, p.A25)
1911 J.M. Barrie adopted Peter Pan
into the novel “Peter and Wendy.” [see Dec 27, 1904]
(SFEC, 2/27/00, BR p.12)(USAT, 9/2/04, p.2D)
1911 Max Beerbohm wrote "Zuleika
Dobson." In 1998 it was ranked 59th in a list of 100 best English
language novels of the 20th century.
(SFEC, 11/15/98, BR p.6)
1911 Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914),
authored “The Devil’s Dictionary.”
(WSJ, 12/2/06, p.P8)
1911 Joseph Smeaton Chase traveled
the coast from Mexico to Oregon via horse and wrote a journal titled
"California Coast Trails."
(SFEC, 5/25/97, p.T3)
1911 G.K. Chesterton authored his
historical novel “The Ballad of the White Horse” set in England in 878
as King Alfred faced the invading Danes.
(SSFC, 4/22/07, p.P10)
1911 Irving Fisher (1867-1947),
American Economist, authored “The Purchasing Power of Money,” in which
he formalized the quantity theory of money.
(Econ, 2/26/05, p.76)(Econ, 2/14/09, p.78)
1911 Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967)
included the 1st chapter of his fictional, futuristic serial called
Ralph 124C41+ in his Modern Electrics magazine.
(ON, 11/05, p.10)
1911 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
wrote "The Man-Made World" and "Our Androcentric Culture." [may be one
book]
(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.34)
1911 Edith Wharton authored her
novel "Ethan Frome."
(SSFC, 1/14/01, BR p.8)
1911 The silent film "The Military
Air Scout" featured Lt. H.H. Arnold as the first movie stunt man.
(SFC, 2/8/97, p.A24)
1911 Debussy composed "Trois
Ballades de Francois Villon" set to poems by the poet.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, DB p.9)
1911 Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
published the vocal score of his opera "Treemonisha" from his own
pocket. He had completed it in 1910 but no publisher would accept a
ragtime opera by a black composer. Joplin also footed a single reading
this year with piano accompaniment. The 1st full professional staging
was done in 1975 by the Houston Grand Opera.
(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A20)(SFC, 6/21/03, p.D1)(WSJ,
3/8/06, p.D14)
1911 Igor Stravinsky composed
"Petrouchka."
(T&L, 10/80, p. 106)
1911 Sophie Tucker (d.1966 at 78),
cabaret singer, had Thomas Edison engineer her first record.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.E3)
1911 The most popular song of the
year was "Oh! You Beautiful Doll."
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)
1911 Fernbridge was built over the
Eel River in Ferndale, Ca.
(SSFC, 6/10/07, p.G8)
1911 In SF the Perine Mansion,
designed by Conrad Meussdorffer, was built at 535 Powell St. It later
became the home of Tessie Wall (d.1922), a SF madam.
(SFC, 7/2/07, p.E1)
1911 The Sunol Water Temple near
Niles Canyon in Alameda County, Ca., was designed by Willis Polk as a
tribute to Vesta and the SF water system. He designed it with 12
circular columns supporting a wood and tile roof.
(SFC, 12/19/96, p.A21,26)
1911 In SF the Old First
Presbyterian Church laid the cornerstone for its Byzantine style
edifice at Van Ness and Sacramento. The church was later rocked by
financial scandal under Rev. John Creighton. In 1999 Stephen Taber
authored his book on the 300-member church: "Pioneer Community of
Faith."
(SFC, 5/20/99, p.A19)
1911 In SF the First St. John’s
United Methodist Church, designed by George Washington Kramer, was
constructed at Larkin and Clay. It went empty in 2005 as the church
agreed to sell the land to Pacific Polk Properties to build a 27-unit
condominium. It failed to attain status as a city landmark and was
slated for demolition in 2009.
(SFC, 5/27/09, p.B1)
1911 In the SF Bay Hazel Langenour
became the 1st woman to swim the Golden Gate span.
(SFCM, 1/25/04, p.15)
1911 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph was
elected as mayor of SF. He went on to become the governor of the state
in 1930. He lived by the motto: "Make no enemies." He claimed to be a
descendent of Pocahontas.
(SFC, 3/16/98, p.A14)(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.4,5)
1911 SF Bay Area wild oysters were
pretty much wiped out by this time.
(SFC, 4/28/03, A14)
1911 In SF the amusement park
known as “The Chutes,” located on Fulton Street, burned down. The rides
that survived the fire were moved, including the Shoot-the-Chutes, to
Ocean Beach, which inspired the first name for the amusement area,
Chutes at the Beach.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playland_(San_Francisco))
1911 The New York Public Library
at 5th Ave. and 42nd opened its doors. It was designed by Carere and
Hastings and featured a 78-by-297-foot reading room in the General
Research Division.
(WSJ, 11/17/98, p.21)
1911 The Hotel Utah was completed
in Salt Lake City across the street from Temple Square. Ten stories of
Edwardian glazed brick, tile, concrete and terra-cotta is surmounted by
a statue of Utah’s state symbol, a beehive.
(T&L, 10/1980, p.W36/8)
1911 Frederick Winslow Taylor,
American efficiency expert declared: "In the past man was first, in the
future the system will be first."
(WSJ, 6/13/97, p.A17)
1911 Freud and Jung visited NYC as
a prelude to their lectures at Clark Univ. [see 1909]
(SFEC, 4/4/99, BR p.3)
1911 George B. Post, architect and
designer of early skyscrapers, was awarded the Gold Medal of the
American Institute of Architecture.
(WSJ, 6/30/97, p.A24)
1911 Marie Curie won the Nobel
Prize in Physics for the isolation of the elements polonium and radium.
(SSFC, 11/28/04, p.4)
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
(1862-1949), Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist, won the Nobel Prize
in Literature. His play 'Pelleas and Melisande' was adopted as a
libretto by Claude Debussy.
(WUD, 1994, p.861)(SFEC, 3/2/97, BR p.8)
1911 Wilhelm K.W. Wien (b.1864),
German physicist, won the Nobel Prize.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1911 The NY Highlanders (later
Yankees) signed Justin Fitzgerald (d.1952) from San Mateo, Ca., to a
$385 per year contract, the largest ever presented to an amateur player
from the West Coast.
(Ind, 4/17/00, 5A)
1911 William Howard Taft was
president of the US and James S. Sherman was his vice-president.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)
1911 The first US experimental
airmail flight took place on Long Island, a 3-mile journey between
Garden City Estates and Mineola.
(SFC, 9/12/08, p.B5)
1911 The US Navy acquired its
first airplane, the A-1 Triad.
(HT, 4/97, p.60)
1911 The stock market tumbled and
a recession began. It was precipitated in part by a federal antitrust
suit against US Steel.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.B2)
1911 The US Geological Survey
estimated the Black Mesa coal reserves at 16 billion tons.
(SFEC, 5/4/97, z1 p.4)
1911 The California state
legislature officially adopted the grizzly bear state flag.
(Pac. Disc., summer, ‘96, p.16)
1911 California voters granted
women the right to vote in state and local elections. It was the 6th
state of the union to pass suffrage.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)(SSFC, 10/10/04, p.E1)
1911 Fingerprints were first used
in a courtroom as evidence. In 2002 a US federal judge challenged their
validity.
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A19)
1911 American Tobacco was broken
up under the Sherman Antitrust Law, and freed former holdings such as
Ligget & Myers Co., P. Lorrilard Co., and R.J. Reynolds. A company
called American tobacco survived the breakup.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1911 Securities of automotive
companies were listed on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time.
(xxxx)
1911 The Indianapolis 500 race was
first run. [see 1910]
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(SFC, 8/24/96, p.E1)
1911 Michigan drew the first white
center line on a roadway.
(WSJ, 5/8/97, p.B1)
1911 In Tacoma, Wa., Frank C. Mars
began his candy company with a circle of chocolate covered with a
crunchy coating. It was modeled after a British confection. His son,
Forrest, created M&Ms in 1940.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A21)
1911 General Motors Truck Co. was
formed.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1911 Louis Chevrolet helped
establish the Chevrolet Motor Company.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(SFEC, 1/9/00, Z1 p.2)
1911 Henry Ford reduced the retail
price of the Model T to $690.
(ON, 3/03, p.3)
1911 Goodyear began flying its
blimps. Frank Augustus Seiberling (1859-1954) was the founder of the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.B3)(SFC, 5/26/99, Z1 p.6)
1911 The Hearst Corp. acquired
Good Housekeeping magazine.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1911 Quaker Oats bought the Great
Western Cereal Co., maker of Mothers Oats. Great Western of Akron,
Ohio, had owned the brand since 1901.
(SFC, 1/16/08, p.G4)
1911 Sears, Roebuck & Co.
began offering mortgage loans.
(WSJ, 10/31/05, p.B1)
1911 The
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) was created by a merger of
The Tabulating Machine Company (Herman Hollerith's punch card company
in Washington, DC), International Time Recording Company (a time clock
maker in NY state), Computing Scale Company (maker of scales and food
slicers in Dayton, Ohio), and Bundy Manufacturing (time clock maker in
Auburn, NY).
(http://tinyurl.com/b62t8)
1911 Einstein presented the idea
that matter curves the fabric of space.
(NH, 2/97, p.76)
1911 The Marconi truck had a radio.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1911 Ernest Rutherford theorized
that atoms must be mainly empty space with a small nucleus in the
center. He overturned the idea that that the atom is solid. This led to
the theory that the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom could be
released.
(NG, May 1985, J. Boslough, p. 642,653)(SFEC,
12/19/99, Par p.14)
1911 Superconductors were first
discovered.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.B1)
1911 Lee DeForest invented the
vacuum tube in Palo Alto, Ca.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.D1)
1911 A half gallon of milk was 17
cents, a pound of butter was 34 cents, a pound of round steak was 18
cents, and a pound of potatoes was 22 cents. The average annual income
was $520 and a new Ford was $780.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)
1911 Samuel Drumheller and Jesse
Gouge began mining operations in Alberta, Canada near Calgary. The coal
operations revealed many fossil remains of dinosaurs.
(CFA, ‘96, p.62-63)
1911 H.H. Baker, American
geologist, proposed that the split of the continental masses was
attributable to the approach of Venus during the Cenozoic.
(DD-EVTT, p.189)
1911 George C. Munro, a naturalist
from New Zealand, planted Norfolk pine tress along the crest of the
mountain ridge of Lana’i, Hawaii.
(SFEM, 10/13/96, p.24)
1911 Monarch, the captive
California grizzly bear, died in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park not
far from the present children’s playground.
(Pac. Disc., summer, ‘96, p.17)
1911 Alfred Binet, psychologist,
died. He developed the Binet Intelligence Test as a general measure of
intellectual potential.
(WSJ, 7/18/97, p.A14)
1911 Edmonia Lewis (b.1843),
American sculptor, died. Her work included “The Death of Cleopatra.”
(SSFC, 2/27/05, p.B1)
1911 Elmer McCurdy, outlaw, died.
His mummified corpse became a tourist attraction in a small Oklahoma
funeral home, and later was taken across country in carnivals and
roving wax museums. In 2002 Mark Svengold authored "Elmer McCurdy: The
Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw."
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.M4)
1911 David S. Woods (b.1830),
painter, died. His work included the c1859 portrait of a horse named
"Black Hawk," owned by Ansel Easton, co-owner of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co.
(SFCM, 10/28/01, p.18)
1911 The Australian federal
government took control of the Northern Territory as part of a deal to
build a railway linking Adelaide to Darwin.
(Econ, 8/9/03, p.36)
1911 In Bosnia the Black Hand was
the nickname for a secret society, Unity or Death, formed in 1911 by
Serbian army officers seeking liberation of Bosnia from Austrian
domination. These nationalist leaders sought the creation of a Greater
Serbia.
(HNQ, 5/29/99)
1911 Chinese men stopped shaving
their heads and wearing braids. The style had originated under the
order of a Manchu emperor in 1644.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, Z1 p.6)
1911 Tsinghua University was
established in 1911 originally as "Tsinghua Xuetang," a preparatory
school for students who would be sent by the government to study in
universities in the United States. The school was renamed "Tsinghua
School" in 1912. The university section was instituted in 1925 and
undergraduate students were then enrolled. The name "National Tsinghua
University" was adopted in 1928, and in 1929 the Research Institute was
set up.
(http://tinyurl.com/cco9p)
1911 In China the Yangtze River
overflowed and some 100,000 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.B3)
1911 In Italy Fillipo Marinetti,
founder of the Futurist movement, predicted that 21st century Italy
would be controlled by a technocracy of engineers living in "high
tension chambers…between wall of iron and crystal..."
(SFC, 1/13/99, Z1 p.3)
1911 In Nepal King Prithvi Bir
Bikram Shah (36) passed away and his son King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah
(b.1906) ascended the throne.
(www.nepalmonarchy.gov.np/monarcyinnepal/monarchyinnepal.php)
1911 In the Philippines the Taal
volcano erupted and 1,335 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A14)
1911 In Russia Mendel Beilis was
tried on charges of killing a Russian child to extract its blood for
baking Passover matzos. He spent over 2 years in prison before a jury
found him not guilty. Franz Kafka followed the story and may have
transformed it into a universal symbol of arbitrary victimization in
his "The Trial."
(WSJ, 10/17/00, p.A20)
1911 Russia exported 13.7 million
tons of grain while some 30 million of its peasants suffered from
famine.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.B3)
1911 In Stockholm, Sweden,
construction began on a new city hall. The design was a mix of Italian
Renaissance, Moorish and Byzantine style and was completed in
1923.
(SSFC, 8/19/07, p.G4)
1911 Eugene Bleuler, Swiss
psychiatrist, coined the term “schizophrenia.”
(Econ, 10/29/05, p.84)
1911 The Hanoi Opera House in
Vietnam was designed by the French.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.T6)
1911-1912 In Mexico during the Revolution the crime
rate rose in double digits for two years in a row
(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.A14)
1911-1913 In Mexico Francisco Indalecio Madero,
revolutionary and political leader, served as president.
(WUD, 1994, p.861)
1911-1917 Sir Robert Borden, Conservative Party,
served as the 8th Prime Minister of Canada.
(CFA, ‘96, p.81)
1911-1931 Omar Mukhtar harassed the Italian forces
attempting to subdue Libya. The 1981 film “Lion in the Desert” starred
Anthony Quinn as Omar Mukhtar.
(Econ, 11/26/05, p.29)
1911-1960 David Park, American artist. His work
included: "Man in a T-Shirt" and "Untitled" (1958), "Torso" (1959).
(SFEC, 12/1/96, DB p.21)(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A20)
1911-1976 Rosalind Russell, American actress:
"Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can’t send
away for it in a catalogue. And I’m afraid it’s becoming obsolete."
(AP, 4/20/97)
1911-1979 Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and artist.
As a Manhattan primitive she specialized in watercolor and her work
tended to be small.
(WSJ, 12/5/96, p.A16)
1911-1986 Andre Leroi-Gourhan, paleolithic scholar.
He viewed cave painting as an integrated composition. He wrote
"Treasures of Prehistoric Art."
(NH, 7/96, p.22)
1911-1991 George J. Stigler, American economist: "The
trouble is that hardly anybody in America goes to bed angry at night."
(AP, 1/23/99)
1911-1996 Norma Teagarden, jazz pianist. Her brother
Jack was a celebrated trombonist, brother Charlie a trumpeter, and Cub
a drummer. She joined Jack’s big band in 1942 and played in the bands
of Ben Pollack and Ada Leonard. In the late 40s she led her own band
and began teaching students. In 1963 the entire family performed
together at the Monterey Jazz Festival. She played with a strong
striding left hand and a softer right hand. Since 1975 she played at
the Washington Square Bar and Grill in San Francisco.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A17)
1911-1997 "Traditional Chinese Painting in the
20th Century" by Lang Shaojun is the 5th section of Wu Hung’s 1997 "The
Origins of Chinese Painting." The period is marked by the emergence of
the literati-amateur movement.
(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.6)
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