In history, year 1911 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1911.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 03 january | A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan. |
| 19 march | Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. |
| 25 march | The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City killed more than 140 sweatshop workers, many of whom could not escape because the doors to the stairwell and exits had been locked. |
| 29 march | The M1911 single-action, semi-automatic pistol developed by American firearms designer John Browning became the standard-issue side arm in the United States Army. |
| 02 april | The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the country's first national census. |
| 08 april | Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity. |
| 22 april | Tsinghua University , one of the leading universities in mainland China, was founded, funded by an unexpected surplus in indemnities paid by the Qing Dynasty to the United States as a result of the Boxer Rebellion. |
| 27 april | Following the resignation of William P. Frye, a compromise was reached in the United States Senate to rotate the office of the President pro tempore of the United States Senate. |
| 19 may | Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. |
| 21 may | Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionaryFrancisco Madero signed the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end tothe fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding theinitial phase of the Mexican Revolution. |
| 29 may | English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbertand Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake. |
| 30 may | American race car driver Ray Harroun won the first running ofthe Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. |
| 31 may | The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic was launched. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, US. The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. |
| 16 june | IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. The International Business Machines Corporation (commonly referred to as IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. |
| 22 june | George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of theUnited Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| 01 july | The German gunboat Panther arrived in the Moroccan port ofAgadir, sparking the Agadir Crisis between Germany, Great Britain, andFrance. |
| 07 july | Four countries- Britain, Russia, Japan and USA signed a treaty on banning open water seal hunting. The treaty was known as North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911. It was the 1st treaty of world which was aimed to preserve environment and private. |
| 21 august | Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by amuseum employee and was not recovered until two years later. |
| 28 august | The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emergedfrom the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European Americansociety. |
| 14 september | Prime Minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin was mortally shot atthe Kiev Opera House. |
| 24 september | His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, waswrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness. |
| 25 september | An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battle ship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazinesand destroyed the ship. |
| 10 october | The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, markingthe beginning of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the establishmentof the Republic of China. |
| 13 october | Prince Arthur, a son of Queen Victoria, became the only Governor General of Canada of royal descent. |
| 14 october | Prince Arthur, a son of Queen Victoria, became the only Governor General of Canada of royal descent. |
| 09 december | A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, killed 84 minersdespite a well-organized rescue effort led by the United States Bureauof Mines. |
| 14 december | Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the firstpeople to reach the South Pole. |
| 27 december | Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India, was first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. |
| 29 december | Sun Yat-sen was elected in Nanjing as the Provisional President Of the Republic of China. |
| 16 June | IBM company was founded in New York. Earlier it was named Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 04 May | Gilles Grangier / Writer / France |
| 05 July | Giorgio Borġ Olivier / Politician / Malta |
| 05 February | Jussi Björling / Tenor / Sweden |
| 05 October | Pierre Dansereau / Academic / Canada |
| 06 September | Harry Danning / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 06 August | Lucille Ball / Actress / United States of America |
| 09 September | Paul Goodman / Poet / United States of America |
| 10 December | Chet Huntley / Journalist / United States of America |
| 13 October | Millosh Gjergj Nikolla / Author / Albania |
| 15 September | Luther Terry / Surgeon / United States of America |
| 18 September | Syd Howe / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 18 January | José María Arguedas / Author / Peru |
| 21 June | Irving Fein / Producer / United States of America |
| 24 August | Durward Kirby / Television Host / United States of America |
| 26 September | Al Helfer / Sportscaster / United States of America |
| 26 October | Mahalia Jackson / Singer / United States of America |
| 26 January | Norbert Schultze / Composer / Germany |
| 27 August | Kay Walsh / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 28 March | J. L. Austin / Philosopher / Britain |
| 31 March | Freddie Green / Guitarist / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 14 August | Vethathiri Maharishi / Philosopher / India |
| 13 October | Ashok Kumar / Actor / India |
| 25 October | Ghanshyam Oza / Politician / India |
| 20 September | Shriram Sharma / Activist / India |
| 21 July | Umashankar Joshi / Poet / India |
| 08 October | Ram Dass Katari / Indian Navy / India |
| 19 January | Choor Singh / Lawyer / India |
| 09 February | Babubhai J. Patel / Politician / India |
| 05 March | Air Marshal S. Mukherjee / Indian Air Force / India |
| 08 October | Ram Dass Katari / Naval Chief / India |
| 05 March | Subroto Mukerjee / Indian Air Force / India |
| 07 March | Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan / Writer / India |
| 20 July | Baqa Jilani / Cricketer / India |
| 13 February | Faiz Ahmad Faiz / Poet / India |
| 12 March | Dayanand Bandodkar / Politician / India |
| 07 March | Sachchidananda Vatsyayan / Author / India |
| 05 May | Pritilata Waddedar / Activist / India |
| 04 May | Pritilata Waddedar / Activist / India |
| 11 September | Lala Amarnath / Cricketer / India |
| 12 October | Vijay Merchant / Cricketer / India |