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Events from the year 1911 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois) (until March 4)

Champ Clark (D-Missouri) (starting April 4)

Congress: 61st (until March 4), 62nd (starting March 4)

Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors [edit] Governor of Alabama: B. B. Comer (Democratic) (until January 17), Emmet O'Neal (Democratic) (starting January 17) Governor of Arkansas: George Washington Donaghey (Democratic) Governor of California: James Gillett (Republican) (until January 3), Hiram Johnson (Republican) (starting January 3) Governor of Colorado: John F. Shafroth (Democratic) Governor of Connecticut: Frank B. Weeks (Republican) (until January 4), Simeon E. Baldwin (Democratic) (starting January 4) Governor of Delaware: Simeon S. Pennewill (Republican) Governor of Florida: Albert W. Gilchrist (Democratic) Governor of Georgia: until July 1: Joseph M. Brown (Democratic) July 1-November 16: Hoke Smith (Democratic) starting November 16: John M. Slaton (Democratic) Governor of Idaho: James H. Brady (Republican) (until January 2), James H. Hawley (Democratic) (starting January 2) Governor of Illinois: Charles S. Deneen (Republican) Governor of Indiana: Thomas R. Marshall (Democratic) Governor of Iowa: Beryl F. Carroll (Republican) Governor of Kansas: Walter R. Stubbs (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: Augustus E. Willson (Republican) (until December 12), James B. McCreary (Democratic) (starting December 12) Governor of Louisiana: Jared Young Sanders, Sr. (Democratic) Governor of Maine: Bert M. Fernald (Republican) (until January 4), Frederick W. Plaisted (Democratic) (starting January 4) Governor of Maryland: Austin Lane Crothers (Democratic) Governor of Massachusetts: Eben Sumner Draper (Republican) (until January 5), Eugene Noble Foss (Democratic) (starting January 5) Governor of Michigan: Fred M. Warner (Republican) (until January 2), Chase Osborn (Republican) (starting January 2) Governor of Minnesota: Adolph O. Eberhart (Republican) Governor of Mississippi: Edmond Noel (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: Herbert S. Hadley (Republican) Governor of Montana: Edwin L. Norris (Democratic) Governor of Nebraska: Ashton C. Shallenberger (Democratic) (until January 5), Chester H. Aldrich (Republican) (starting January 5) Governor of Nevada: Denver S. Dickerson (Silver) (until January 2), Tasker L. Oddie (Republican) (starting January 2) Governor of New Hampshire: Henry B. Quinby (Republican) (until January 5), Robert P. Bass (Republican) (starting January 5) Governor of New Jersey: John Franklin Fort (Republican) (until January 17), Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) (starting January 17) Governor of New York: John Alden Dix (Democratic) (starting January 1) Governor of North Carolina: William Walton Kitchin (Democratic) Governor of North Dakota: John Burke (Democratic) Governor of Ohio: Judson Harmon (Democratic) Governor of Oklahoma: Charles N. Haskell (Democratic) (until January 9), Lee Cruce (Democratic) (starting January 9) Governor of Oregon: Jay Bowerman (Republican) (until January 11), Oswald West (Democratic) (starting January 11) Governor of Pennsylvania: Edwin Sydney Stuart (Republican) (until January 17), John K. Tener (Republican) (starting January 17) Governor of Rhode Island: Aram J. Pothier (Republican) Governor of South Carolina: Martin Frederick Ansel (Democratic) (until January 17), Coleman Livingston Blease (Democratic) (starting January 17) Governor of South Dakota: Robert S. Vessey (Republican) Governor of Tennessee: Malcolm R. Patterson (Democratic) (until January 26), Ben W. Hooper (Republican) (starting January 26) Governor of Texas: Thomas Mitchell Campbell (Democratic) (until January 17), Oscar Branch Colquitt (Democratic) (starting January 17) Governor of Utah: William Spry (Republican) Governor of Vermont: John A. Mead (Republican) Governor of Virginia: William Hodges Mann (Democratic) Governor of Washington: Marion E. Hay (Republican) Governor of West Virginia: William E. Glasscock (Republican) Governor of Wisconsin: James O. Davidson (Republican) (until January 2), Francis E. McGovern (Republican) (starting January 2) Governor of Wyoming: Bryant B. Brooks (Republican) (until January 2), Joseph M. Carey (Democratic) (starting January 2) Lieutenant governors [edit] Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Henry B. Gray (Democratic) (until January 17), Walter D. Seed, Sr. (Democratic) (starting January 17) Lieutenant Governor of California: Warren R. Porter (Republican) (until January 3), A. J. Wallace (Republican) (starting January 3) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: vacant (until January 4), Dennis A. Blakeslee (Republican) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: John M. Mendinhall (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Lewis H. Sweetser (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John G. Oglesby (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Frank J. Hall (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: George W. Clarke (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: William J. Fitzgerald (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Richard Joseph Hopkins (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William Hopkinson Cox (Republican) (until December 12), Edward J. McDermott (Democratic) (starting December 12) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Paul M. Lambremont (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Louis A. Frothingham (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Patrick H. Kelley (Republican) (until January 1), John Q. Ross (Republican) (starting January 1) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Edward Everett Smith (Republican) (until January 3), Samuel Y. Gordon (Republican) (starting January 3) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Luther Manship (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Jacob Friedrich Gmelich (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Montana: William R. Allen (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Melville R. Hopewell (Republican) (until May 2), vacant (starting May 2) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: vacant (until January 2), Gilbert C. Ross (Democratic) (starting January 2) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Thomas F. Conway (Democratic) (starting January 1) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: William C. Newland (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Robert S. Lewis (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Usher L. Burdick (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: until January 9: Francis W. Treadway (Republican) January 9-March 3: Atlee Pomerene (Democratic) starting March 3: Hugh L. Nichols (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: George W. Bellamy (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), J. J. McAlester (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert S. Murphy (Republican) (until January 17), John Merriman Reynolds (Republican) (starting January 17) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Zenas Work Bliss (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic) (until January 17), Charles Aurelius Smith (Democratic) (starting January 17) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Howard C. Shober (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Frank M. Byrne (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: William Kinney (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Nathaniel Baxter, Jr. (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Asbury Bascom Davidson (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Leighton P. Slack (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Washington: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: John Strange (Republican) (until January 2), Thomas Morris (Republican) (starting January 2)

Events

January–March

January 5 – The Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity is founded at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
January 17 – Emmet O'Neal is sworn in as the 34th governor of Alabama replacing B. B. Comer.
January 18 – Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
January 30 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first aeroplane rescue at sea, saving the life of John McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
January – The Masses socialist magazine begins publication.
March – The first installment of a serialized version of Frederick Winslow Taylor's monograph, The Principles of Scientific Management, appears in The American Magazine. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues, giving a boost to the efficiency movement.^[1]
March 10 – The Kansas legislature approves House Bill Number 906, effectively the first blue sky law in the United States, culminating an effort by Joseph Norman Dolley, Kansas' banking commissioner.
March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146.
March 29 – The United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.

April–June

April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" López is drunk.
April 17 – Southern Methodist University is chartered in Dallas, Texas.
April 27 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
April 30 – Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine.
May 15 – The U.S. Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
May 23 – The main branch of the New York Public Library is officially opened.
May 24 – Colorado National Monument is established.
May 30 – The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp.'
June 5 – Charles F. Kettering files US patent 1,150,523, for an electric Engine Starting Device.
June 16
- A 772-gram stony meteorite strikes earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin, near the village of Kilbourn, damaging a barn.
- IBM is incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
July 24 – Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.

July–September

August 8 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 (the law takes effect in 1913).
August 29 – Ishi, last known member of the Yana people, leaves the California wilderness.
September 11 – Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
September 25 – Groundbreaking for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, begins.
September 30 – Austin Dam breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania, and continuing downstream about 8 miles into the village of Costello.

October–December

October 7 – Outlaw Elmer McCurdy and "associates" are chased after trying to rob a train in Oklahoma. McCurdy on the run is eventually hunted down and shot by authorities. His body is never claimed and later is chemically petrified. Afterwards his remains serve as sideshow attractions in carnivals until 1976 when they are diagnosed by forensic experts to be McCurdy. McCurdy's body is finally buried in 1976 after a 65-year odyssey to the grave.
October 24 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years.^[2]
October 28 – The Rosicrucian Fellowship's international headquarters opens at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California (preceded by its formal constitution on August 8, 1909, at Seattle, Washington).
November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
November 11
- The Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11: A record cold snap hits the United States Midwest; many cities break record highs and lows on the same day.
- The Upton Machine Company, now Whirlpool Corporation, was founded in St Joseph, MI.
November 17 – The Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded at Howard University.
December 24 – The Lackawanna Cutoff, the first of two major cutoffs built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, opens just 3 years after it was built.

Ongoing

Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)

Births

January 9 – Slim Gaillard, jazz musician (died 1991)
February 6 – Ronald Reagan, film actor, 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 (died 2004)
March 9 – Ebby Halliday, American realtor (died 2015)
March 13
- L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author, founder of Scientology (died 1986)^[3]
- Marie Rudisill, American TV and radio personality (died 2006)
March 24 – Joseph Barbera, cartoonist (died 2006)
March 25 – Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who (according to four government investigations)^[4] assassinated President John F. Kennedy) (died 1967)
April 8 – Melvin Calvin, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961 (died 1997)
April 17 – Lester Rodney, journalist (died 2009)
April 18 – Huntington Hartford, businessman (died 2008)
May 8 – Robert Johnson, Mississippi blues guitar player and singer-songwriter (died 1938)
May 11 – Doodles Weaver, actor and singer (died 1983)
May 27 – Hubert Humphrey, 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978 (died 1978)
June 5 – John C. Woods, US Army executioner (died in accident 1950 in the Marshall Islands)
June 11 – Norman Malcolm, philosopher (died 1990)
June 13 – Luis Walter Alvarez, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 (died 1988)
June 25 – William Howard Stein, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 (died 1980)
June 26 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete and golfer (died 1956)
July 4 – Frederick Seitz, solid-state physicist (died 2008)
August 9 – William A. Fowler, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 (died 1995)
August 24 – Durward Kirby, American television host and announcer (died 2000)
September 21 – Clair Engle, U.S. Senator from California from 1959 to 1964 (died 1964)
September 23 – Jane Hadley Barkley, Second Lady of the United States (died 1964)
September 30 – Ruth Gruber, journalist (died 2016)
December 1 – Walter Alston, baseball player and manager (died 1984)

Deaths

January 7 – William Hall Sherwood, pianist and music educator (born 1854)
January 9 – Edwin Arthur Jones, choral composer (born 1853)
January 24 – David Graham Phillips, journalist and novelist, murdered (born 1867)
February 1 – Charles Stillman Sperry, admiral (born 1847)
February 7 – Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker author (born 1832)
February 22 – Frances Harper, African American abolitionist, poet and author (born 1825)
March 4 – Ellen Maria Colfax, Second Lady of the United States (born 1836)
March 18 – David Moffat, financier (born 1839)
April 13 – William Keith, landscape painter (born 1838 in Scotland)
April 14
- George Cary Eggleston, memoirist (born 1839)
- Addie Joss, baseball player (born 1880)
- Denman Thompson, actor and playwright (born 1833)
May 5
- James A. Bland, African American musician and songwriter (born 1854)
- Halsey Ives, art teacher and curator (born 1847)
May 9 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's suffrage (born 1823)
May 21 – Williamina Fleming, astronomer (born 1857 in Scotland)^[5]
May 22 – Elizabeth Smith Miller, women's rights campaigner (born 1822)
May 30 – Milton Bradley, game pioneer and businessman (born 1836)
June 9 – Carrie Nation, temperance activist (born 1846)
June 27 – Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham, missionary and church worker (born 1831)
July 2
- Mary M. Cohen, American social economist and proto-feminist (born 1854)
- Clement A. Evans, Confederate general (born 1833)
July 24 – Thomas J. Latham, lawyer and businessman (born 1831)
August 1 – Samuel Arza Davenport, politician (born 1843)
August 7 – Elizabeth Akers Allen, author, journalist and poet (born 1832)
August 8 – William P. Frye, U.S. Senator (born 1830)
August 11 – Verner Clarges, silent film actor (born 1846)
August 26 – Alfred Bayliss, English-American educator (born 1847)
September 9 – Francis March, lexicographer and philologist (born 1825)
October 2 – Winfield Scott Schley, admiral (born 1839)
October 7 – Elmer McCurdy, robber, killed in shootout (born 1880)
October 14 – John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born 1833)
October 17 – Abram Williams, U.S. Senator from California from 1886 to 1887 (born 1832)
October 19 – Eugene Ely, aviation pioneer (born 1886)
October 24 – Ida Lewis, lighthouse keeper (born 1842)
October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist (born 1847 in Hungary)
October 31 – John Joseph Montgomery, glider pioneer (born 1858)
November 8 – Oscar Bielaski, Major League Baseball player (born 1847)
November 15 – Philip Gengembre Hubert, architect (born 1830 in France)
December 2 – George Davidson, geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer (born 1825 in the United Kingdom)
December 21 – Benjamin F. Jonas, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1879 to 1885 (born 1834)
December 20 – Rose Eytinge, actress (born 1835)
December 25 – Arthur F. Griffith, calculating prodigy (born 1880)

References

^ The Principles of Scientific Management Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine available online.
^ "Orville Wright, Diary Entry, October 1911". Archived from the original on 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
^ Clarke, Peter (March 2004). Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-134-49970-0.
^ These were investigations by: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1963), the Warren Commission (1964), the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979), and the Dallas Police Department.
^ Todd, Deborah; Angelo, Joseph (2003). A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy. New York: Facts of File. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-81604-639-3.

External links

Media related to 1911 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons

[1] The Principles of Scientific Management Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine available online.

[2] "Orville Wright, Diary Entry, October 1911". Archived from the original on 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2009-10-23.

[3] Clarke, Peter (March 2004). Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-134-49970-0.

[4] These were investigations by: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1963), the Warren Commission (1964), the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979), and the Dallas Police Department.

[5] Todd, Deborah; Angelo, Joseph (2003). A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy. New York: Facts of File. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-81604-639-3.

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 == Incumbents ==
-=== [[Federal government of the United States|Federal Government]] ===
+=== [[Federal government of the United States|Federal government]] ===
 * [[President of the United States|President]]: [[William Howard Taft]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Ohio]])
 * [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]: [[James S. Sherman]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[New York (state)|New York]])
 * [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]]: [[Edward Douglass White]] ([[Louisiana]])
-* [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House of Representatives]]: [[Joseph Gurney Cannon]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Illinois]]) (until March 4), [[Champ Clark]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]-[[Missouri]]) (starting April 4)
+* [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House of Representatives]]:
+::[[Joseph Gurney Cannon]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Illinois]]) (until March 4)
+::[[Champ Clark]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]-[[Missouri]]) (starting April 4)
 * [[United States Congress|Congress]]: [[61st United States Congress|61st]] (until March 4), [[62nd United States Congress|62nd]] (starting March 4)
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-! [[Governor (United States)|Governor]]s and [[Lieutenant governor (United States)|Lieutenant Governor]]s
+! [[Governor (United States)|Governor]]s and [[Lieutenant governor (United States)|lieutenant governor]]s
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 * [[Governor of New York]]: [[John Alden Dix]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (starting January 1)
 * [[Governor of North Carolina]]: [[William Walton Kitchin]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])
-* [[Governor of North Dakota]]: [[John Burke (politician)|John Burke]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])
+* [[Governor of North Dakota]]: [[John Burke (North Dakota politician)|John Burke]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])
 * [[Governor of Ohio]]: [[Judson Harmon]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])
 * [[Governor of Oklahoma]]: [[Charles N. Haskell]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (until January 9), [[Lee Cruce]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (starting January 9)
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-=== Lieutenant Governors ===
+=== Lieutenant governors ===
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 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Alabama]]: [[Henry B. Gray]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (until January 17), [[Walter D. Seed, Sr.]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (starting January 17)
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 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Illinois]]: [[John G. Oglesby]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Indiana]]: [[Frank J. Hall]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])
-* [[Lieutenant Governor of Iowa]]: [[George W. Clarke]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])
+* [[Lieutenant Governor of Iowa]]: [[George W. Clarke (Iowa politician)|George W. Clarke]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Kansas]]: [[William James Fitzgerald (Kansas politician)|William J. Fitzgerald]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (until month and day unknown), [[Richard Joseph Hopkins]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (starting month and day unknown)
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky]]: [[William Hopkinson Cox]]  ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (until December 12), [[Edward J. McDermott]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (starting December 12)
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]]: [[Paul M. Lambremont]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
-* [[Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts]]: [[Louis A. Frothingham]] (political party unknown)
+* [[Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts]]: [[Louis A. Frothingham]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Michigan]]: [[Patrick H. Kelley]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (until January 1), [[John Q. Ross]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (starting January 1)
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota]]: [[Edward Everett Smith]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (until January 3), [[Samuel Y. Gordon]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (starting January 3)
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 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Montana]]: [[William R. Allen (Montana politician)|William R. Allen]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska]]: [[Melville R. Hopewell]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (until May 2), vacant (starting May 2)
-* [[Lieutenant Governor of Nevada]]: vacant (until January 2), Gilbert C. Ross (political party unknown) (starting January 2)
+* [[Lieutenant Governor of Nevada]]: vacant (until January 2), Gilbert C. Ross ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (starting January 2)
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of New York]]: [[Thomas F. Conway]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (starting January 1)
 * [[Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina]]: [[William C. Newland]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])
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 [[File:USS Pennsylvania - First airplane landing.jpg|thumb|right|January 18: [[Eugene Burton Ely]] lands an aircraft on a ship]]
 * January 5 &ndash; The [[Kappa Alpha Psi|Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity]] is founded at [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana University]], [[Bloomington, Indiana]].
+* January 17 &ndash; [[Emmet O'Neal]] is sworn in as the 34th [[governor of Alabama]] replacing [[B. B. Comer]].
 * January 18 – [[Eugene Burton Ely]] lands on the deck of the [[USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4)|USS ''Pennsylvania'']] stationed in [[San Francisco Bay]], marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
 * January 30 –  The destroyer [[USS Terry (DD-25)|USS ''Terry'']] makes the first [[aeroplane]] rescue at sea, saving the life of [[John Alexander Douglas McCurdy|John McCurdy]] 10 miles from [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].
 * January &ndash; ''[[The Masses]]'' socialist magazine begins publication.
-* March – The first installment of a serialized version of [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]]'s [[monograph]], ''The Principles of Scientific Management'', appears in ''[[The American Magazine]]''. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues, giving a boost to the efficiency movement.<ref>''[http://www.eldritchpress.org/fwt/taylor.html The Principles of Scientific Management]'' available online.</ref>
+* March – The first installment of a serialized version of [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]]'s [[monograph]], ''The Principles of Scientific Management'', appears in ''[[The American Magazine]]''. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues, giving a boost to the efficiency movement.<ref>''[http://www.eldritchpress.org/fwt/taylor.html The Principles of Scientific Management] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225074655/http://eldritchpress.org/fwt/taylor.html |date=2009-02-25 }}'' available online.</ref>
 * March 10 – The Kansas legislature approves House Bill Number 906, effectively the first [[blue sky law]] in the United States, culminating an effort by [[Joseph Norman Dolley]], Kansas' banking commissioner.
 * March 25 – The [[Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire]] in [[New York City]] kills 146.
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 * May 15 – The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] declares [[Standard Oil]] to be an "unreasonable" [[monopoly]] under the [[Sherman Antitrust Act]] and orders the company to be dissolved.
 * May 23 – The main branch of the [[New York Public Library]] is officially opened.
+* May 24 – [[Colorado National Monument]] is established.
 * May 30 – The first [[Indianapolis 500]]-mile auto race is run. The winner is [[Ray Harroun]] in the [[Marmon Motor Car Company|Marmon]] 'Wasp.'
 * June 5 – [[Charles F. Kettering]] files US patent 1,150,523, for an [[Starter motor|electric Engine Starting Device]].
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 ** A 772-gram stony [[meteorite]] strikes earth in [[Columbia County, Wisconsin]], near the village of [[Kilbourn, Wisconsin|Kilbourn]], damaging a barn.
 ** [[IBM]] is incorporated as the [[Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company]] in [[Endicott, New York]].
-* July 24 – [[Hiram Bingham III|Hiram Bingham]] rediscovers [[Machu Picchu]].im gay
+* July 24 – [[Hiram Bingham III|Hiram Bingham]] rediscovers [[Machu Picchu]].
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 [[File:L. Frank Baum (1911).jpg|thumb| [[L. Frank Baum]], author of [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in a 1911 photo.]]
 * October 7 &ndash; Outlaw [[Elmer McCurdy]] and "associates" are chased after trying to rob a train in [[Oklahoma]]. McCurdy on the run is eventually hunted down and shot by authorities. His body is never claimed and later is chemically petrified. Afterwards his remains serve as sideshow attractions in carnivals until 1976 when they are diagnosed by forensic experts to be McCurdy. McCurdy's body is finally buried in 1976 after a 65-year odyssey to the grave.
-* October 24 – [[Orville Wright]] remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a [[Glider aircraft|glider]] at [[Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina]], setting a new world record that stands for 10 years.<ref>[http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/wright/htmlFiles/Oxj4.html Orville Wright, Diary Entry, October 1911]</ref>
+* October 24 – [[Orville Wright]] remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a [[Glider aircraft|glider]] at [[Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina]], setting a new world record that stands for 10 years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/wright/htmlFiles/Oxj4.html |title=Orville Wright, Diary Entry, October 1911 |access-date=2009-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116043403/http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/wright/htmlFiles/Oxj4.html |archive-date=2009-01-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 * October 28 – [[The Rosicrucian Fellowship]]'s international headquarters opens at [[Mount Ecclesia]], [[Oceanside, California]] (preceded by its formal constitution on August 8, 1909, at [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]]).
 * November 3 – [[Chevrolet]] officially enters the [[automobile]] market to compete with the [[Ford Model T]].
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 ==Births==
+[[File:Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait (cropped).jpg|thumb|127x127px|[[Ronald Reagan]]]]
-* February 6 &ndash; [[Ronald Reagan]], actor, 33rd [[Governor of California]] from 1967 to 1975 and 40th [[President of the United States]] from 1981 to 1989 (died [[2004 in the United States|2004]])
-* March 13 &ndash; [[L. Ron Hubbard]], science fiction author, founder of [[Scientology]] (died [[1986 in the United States|1986]])
+* January 9 &ndash; [[Slim Gaillard]], jazz musician (died [[1991 in the United States|1991]])
+* February 6 &ndash; [[Ronald Reagan]], film actor, 33rd [[governor of California]] from 1967 to 1975 and 40th [[president of the United States]] from 1981 to 1989 (died [[2004 in the United States|2004]])
+* March 9 &ndash; [[Ebby Halliday]], American realtor (died [[2015 in the United States|2015]])
+* March 13
+** [[L. Ron Hubbard]], science fiction author, founder of [[Scientology]] (died [[1986 in the United States|1986]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=Peter |title=Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements |date=March 2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-49970-0 |page=281 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DouBAgAAQBAJ&dq=L.+Ron+Hubbard&pg=PA281 |language=en}}</ref>
+** [[Marie Rudisill]], American TV and radio personality (died [[2006 in the United States|2006]])
 * March 24 &ndash; [[Joseph Barbera]], cartoonist (died [[2006 in the United States|2006]])
 * March 25 &ndash; [[Jack Ruby]], assassin of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] (the man who (according to four government investigations)<ref>These were investigations by: the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (1963), the [[Warren Commission]] (1964), the [[House Select Committee on Assassinations]] (1979), and the [[Dallas Police Department]].</ref> [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassinated President John F. Kennedy]]) (died [[1967 in the United States|1967]])
 * April 8 &ndash; [[Melvin Calvin]], chemist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 1961 (died [[1997 in science|1997]])
+* April 17 &ndash; [[Lester Rodney]], journalist (died [[2009 in the United States|2009]])
+* April 18 &ndash; [[Huntington Hartford]], businessman (died [[2008 in the United States|2008]])
+* May 8 &ndash; [[Robert Johnson]], Mississippi blues guitar player and singer-songwriter (died [[1938 in the United States|1938]])
 * May 11 &ndash; [[Doodles Weaver]], actor and singer (died [[1983 in the United States|1983]])
-* May 27 &ndash; [[Hubert Humphrey]], 38th [[Vice President of the United States]] from 1965 till 1969 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978 (died 1978)
+* May 27 &ndash; [[Hubert Humphrey]], 38th [[vice president of the United States]] from 1965 to 1969 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978 (died [[1978 in the United States|1978]])
+* June 5 &ndash; [[John C. Woods]], US Army executioner (died in accident [[1950 in the United States|1950]] in the Marshall Islands)
+* June 11 &ndash; [[Norman Malcolm]], philosopher (died [[1990 in the United States|1990]])
 * June 13 &ndash; [[Luis Walter Alvarez]], physicist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1968 (died [[1988 in the United States|1988]])
 * June 25 &ndash; [[William Howard Stein]], chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 (died [[1980 in the United States|1980]])
 * June 26 &ndash; [[Babe Didrikson Zaharias]], athlete and golfer (died [[1956 in the United States|1956]])
 * July 4 &ndash; [[Frederick Seitz]], solid-state physicist (died [[2008 in the United States|2008]])
-* June 27 &ndash; Robert Russell Williams, Jr., in Syracuse, New York, commanding officer of USS ''Finback'' (SS-230, which rescues on 2 September 1944 then-Lt. George H. W. Bush, USN after he bales out of his Avenger torpedo bomber seven miles south of Chichi Jima in the Pacific Ocean)
 * August 9 &ndash; [[William Alfred Fowler|William A. Fowler]], physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 (died [[1995 in the United States|1995]])
+* August 24 &ndash; [[Durward Kirby]], American television host and announcer (died [[2000 in the United States|2000]])
 * September 21 &ndash; [[Clair Engle]], U.S. Senator from California from 1959 to 1964 (died [[1964 in the United States|1964]])
 * September 23 &ndash; [[Jane Hadley Barkley]], [[Second Lady of the United States]] (died [[1964 in the United States|1964]])
 * September 30 &ndash; [[Ruth Gruber]], journalist (died [[2016 in the United States|2016]])
+* December 1 &ndash; [[Walter Alston]], baseball player and manager (died [[1984 in the United States|1984]])
 ==Deaths==
 * January 7 &ndash; [[William Hall Sherwood]], pianist and music educator (born [[1854 in the United States|1854]])
 * January 9 &ndash; [[Edwin Arthur Jones]], choral composer (born [[1853 in the United States|1853]])
-* January 23 &ndash; [[David Graham Phillips]], journalist and novelist, murdered (born [[1867 in the United States|1867]])
+* January 24 &ndash; [[David Graham Phillips]], journalist and novelist, murdered (born [[1867 in the United States|1867]])
 * February 1 &ndash; [[Charles Stillman Sperry]], admiral (born [[1847 in the United States|1847]])
 * February 7 &ndash; [[Hannah Whitall Smith]], Quaker author (born [[1832 in the United States|1832]])
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 ** [[Halsey Ives]], art teacher and curator (born 1847)
 * May 9 &ndash; [[Thomas Wentworth Higginson]], writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's suffrage (born [[1823 in the United States|1823]])
-* May 21 &ndash; [[Williamina Fleming]], astronomer (born [[1857 in Scotland]])
+* May 21 &ndash; [[Williamina Fleming]], astronomer (born [[1857 in Scotland]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Deborah|last1=Todd|first2=Joseph|last2=Angelo|title=A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy|location=New York|publisher=Facts of File|year=2003|page=118|isbn=978-0-81604-639-3}}</ref>
 * May 22 &ndash; [[Elizabeth Smith Miller]], women's rights campaigner (born [[1822 in the United States|1822]])
 * May 30 &ndash; [[Milton Bradley]], game pioneer and businessman (born [[1836 in the United States|1836]])
 * June 9 &ndash; [[Carrie Nation]], temperance activist (born [[1846 in the United States|1846]])
-* July 2 &ndash; [[Clement A. Evans]], Confederate general (born 1833)
+* June 27 &ndash; [[Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham]], missionary and church worker (born [[1831 in the United States|1831]])
+* July 2
+**[[Mary M. Cohen]], American social economist and proto-feminist (born [[1854 in the United States|1854]])
+**[[Clement A. Evans]], Confederate general (born 1833)
 * July 24 &ndash; [[Thomas J. Latham]], lawyer and businessman (born [[1831 in the United States|1831]])
 * August 1 &ndash; [[Samuel Arza Davenport]], politician (born [[1843 in the United States|1843]])
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v t e Timeline of United States history
Year	Before 1760 1760–1789 1790–1819 1820–1859 1860–1899 1900–1929 1930–1949 1950–1969 1970–1989 1990–2009 2010–present
General	Civil rights movement Civil marriage Colonial America Conservatism Constitution drafting and ratification Counterculture in the 1960s COVID-19 2020 2021 Diplomatic Japan–U.S. relations Flag Terrorist attacks September 11 Statehood Voting Western Frontier
Military	Revolution Timeline of the War of 1812 Prelude to Civil War Spanish–American War Philippine–American War World War I World War II Cold War War on Terror Gulf War Afghanistan Iraq War
Groups	African Americans Firsts Women Feminism Rights Suffrage Colleges Dentistry Lawyers Mathematics Religion Science Warfare before 1900 1900–1949 1950–1999 2000–2010 2011–present LGBT Young people
Industry	Discoveries Inventions before 1890 1890–1945 1991–present Railroads Space Race
Years in the United States History of the United States Outline

v t e 1911 in North America
Sovereign states	Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Bermuda British Virgin Islands Guadeloupe

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