Events
January-June
January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia January 3 - In London, in what becomes called a Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in the gunfight by owning the criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up within the building in the East End. January 10 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the number one aerial photograph (over San Diego, California). January 18 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship January 21 - First Monte Carlo races January 26 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane. January 30 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the 1st airplane rescue at sea saving a life of James McCurdy Ten miles from either Havana, Cuba. March 1 - Jose Ordonez is elected President of Uruguay. March 8 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time March 24 - Denmark abolishes death penalty and flogging March 25 - Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City - 145 dead March 29 - United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, so yielding a gun its 1911 designation. April 13 - Mexican revolution - Rebels take Aqua Prieta besides US border. Government troops choose a town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" Lopez is drunk April 19 - Francisco Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juarez but general Juan J. Navarro refuses his demand of surrender May 11 - Futurist exhibition in Milan was the number one of efforts per class action to produce its theories concrete May 8 - Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission. Government troops surrender May 10 May 15 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to become dissolved. May 17 - Porfirio Diaz is convinced to resign but he doesn't have it off officially May 21 - Peace treaty between rebels of Madero & government troops within Ciudad Juarez May 23 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library. May 24 - Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City - about 200 dead (official claim lone Forty) May 25 - Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz. May 31 he leaves for exile in France May 30 - The number 1 Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is redo. A winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp'. June 7 - Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City upright when the local earthquake June 14 - A national seamen's strike begins within Britain. June 15 - IBM incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company around New York June 16 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth inside Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn damaging a barn. June 22- Coronation of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey, London.

July-October
July 1 - German Warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers Agadir Crisis escalating pre-WW1 tensions. Subsequent climbdown rallies German militance. July 24 - Hiram Bingham finds Machu Picchu August 8 - Public Law 62-5 sets the total of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. A law might choose consequence inside 1913. August 9 - Raunds, Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C), a greatest UK temperature until 1990. August 10 - British MPs vote to receive salaries for the first time August 22 - Theft of Mona Lisa discovered in Louvre (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and a painting returned 1913) September 7 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put around clink in suspicion of stealing a Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. He is late freed. September 11 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as Middle Tennessee Normal School. September 20 - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton, England. September 29 - French navy ship Liberte explodes anchored in Toulon October 6 - The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England. October 10 - Wuchang Uprising which led to the founding of the Republic of China. October 10 - Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada's eighth prime minister. October 16 - Felipe Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz, occupies the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against Madero October 18 - revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty. October 28 - Foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship's international headquarters at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside (California); It had been preceded by its formal constitution inside August 8 1909 at Seattle (Washington).

November-December
November 3 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with a Ford Model T. November 4 - Selandia launched in Denmark, the 1st ocean running diesel Ship. November 5 - After declaring war in Turkey on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (this work was confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament in February 25, 1912). November 11 - A record cold snap hits a United States midwestern united states. Several cities break record highs & lows in equivalent day. (watch The 11/11/11 cold wave). November 15 - Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne & late Ruling Prince Louis II of Monaco officially recognizes his illegitimate girl Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet as Princess Charlotte of Monaco. November 16 - Earthquake in Swab, South Germany December 11 - Coronation in New Delhi of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck as Emperor of India and Empress consort respectively December 12 - The capital of India was shifted to New Delhi from Calcutta (now Kolkata). December 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole December 21 - First robbery of the Bonnot gang December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the 1st President of the Republic of China

Unknown dates

Foremost Solvay Congress - meeting of physicists University of Iceland founded University of Wales, Bangor moved to new buildings. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica published. Prevent of Qing Dynasty in China. Rutherford deduces the being of the compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments. Onnes discovers superconductivity.

Births
January-March
January 1 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball streaming video player (d. 1986) January 3 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982) January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001) January 7 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995) January 11 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004) January 13 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005) January 22 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990) January 24 - C. L. Moore, American science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 1987) January 26 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) January 29 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986) January 30 - Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician (d. 1989) February 5 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960) February 6 - Ronald Reagan, United States President (d. 2004) February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979) February 12 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968) February 19 - Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979) March 3 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937) March 8 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000) March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (d. 1986) March 16 - Josef Mengele, Nazi Germany war criminal (d. 1979) March 20 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1991) March 24 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist March 25 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967) March 26 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983) March 29 - Brigitte Horney, actress (d. 1988) March 31 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (d. 1986)

April-June
April 5 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960) April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and litterateur (d. 1995) April 11 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American sprinter (d. 1980) April 26 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002) May 8 - Robert Johnson, American blues guitar player & singer (d. 1938) May 11 - Phil Silvers, American actor & comedian (d. 1985) May 11 - Doodles Weaver, American actor & comedian (d. 1983 May 15 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991) May 17 - Lisa Fonssagrives, supermodel (d. 1992) May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (d. 1998) May 18 - Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (d. 1985) May 20 - Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986) May 20 - Milt Gabler, American record producer (d. 2001) May 26 - Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969) May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President & Senator (d. 1978) May 27 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem May 27 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993) May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986) June 13 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995) June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American jock & linksman (d. 1956) June 29 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004) June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975) June 30 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

July-September
July 4 - Mitch Miller, American singer & television personality July 9 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968) July 16 - Ginger Rogers, American actress (d. 1995) July 18 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003) July 21 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian creator (d. 1980) July 27 - Lupita Tovar, actress August 9 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) August 14 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, Yogi August 17 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995) August 23 - Betty Robinson, American athelete (d. 1999) August Twenty-three - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athelete (d. 1998) August 27 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005) September 2 - Floyd Council, American blues musician (d. 1976) September 6 - Harry Danning, baseball player (d. 2004) September 9 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002) September 19 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) September 23 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from either Utah (d. 2003)

October-December
October 13 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001) October 14 - Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990) October 26 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (d. 2003) October 30 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005) November 2 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) November 5 - Roy Rogers, American singer & actor (d. 1998) November 27 - David Merrick, Broadway producer (d. 2000) December 3 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979) December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate December 13 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet & painter (d. 1972)

Unknown dates
Yolande Beekman, French-born World War II heroine (d. 1944)

Deaths
March 1 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) April 25 - Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (b. 1862) May 18 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860) May 21 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857) May 29 - William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836) June 9 - Carrie Nation, American temperance activistic (b. 1846) August 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852) August 8 - William P. Frye, U.S. Senator (b. 1830) September 16 - Edward Whymper, British explorer (b. 1840) October 14 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833) October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher and journalist (b. 1847) December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)

Marriages
January 7 - Owen Moore & Mary Pickford January 12 - Alexandra Phillips-Fahrney & Milton J. Fahrney April 1 - Bernard Thomas & Olive Thomas April 11 - Mae West & Frank Wallace April 22 - Howard M. Mitchell & Mary Land June 2 - Maxwell Held & Nellie McCoy June 9 - Tod Browning & Alice Browning July 5 - Lucy Maud Montgomery & Ewan Macdonald July 18 - St. John Ervine & Leonora Mary Davis August 1 - Maxwell Anderson & Margaret Haskett August 28 - Folke Jonsson & Carmen Kramer September 9 - John Jacob Astor & Madeleine Talmadge Force October 1 - Blossom Seeley & Joe Kane October 20 - Emil Reesen & Mary Hansen October 21 - Empress Zita & Emperor Karl October 30 - Duke Michael & Natasha Wulfert December 25 - Claire Chennault & Nell Thompson

Nobel Prizes
Physics - Wilhelm Wien Chemistry - Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medicine - Allvar Gullstrand Literature - Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck Peace - Tobias Michael Carel Asser Alfred Hermann Fried