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1911 |
| January 3rd |
 |
In
Britain, the Sidney Street Siege took place in London. The Latvian
anarchist gang responsible for a failed robbery on a jewellers
in the East End of London on December 16th 1910, were found
and cornered. British Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, sent
in the troops. |
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| February
6th |
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Ronald
Reagan, the famous Hollywood actor and later the United States
President, was born. |
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| March
16th |
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The
infamous Nazi doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele was born. |
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| March 24th |
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In
Denmark, the death penalty and flogging was abolished. |
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| March 25th |
|
Jack
Ruby was born. The club owner killed of Lee Harvey Oswald live
on tv. Oswald was accused of killing President John Kennedy
in 1963. |
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| April 13th |
|
In
Mexico, rebels took Aqua Prieta close to the US border. Government
troops retook the town on April 17th when the rebel leader "Red"
Lopez was drunk. |
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| April 19th |
|
In
Mexico, Francisco Madero's troops besieged government troops
at Ciudad Juarez and demanded that General Juan J. Navarro surrendered.
Navarro refused. |
|
| May 8th |
|
Mexican
revolutionary Pancho Villa launched an attack against government
troops in Ciudad Juarez without the permission of Francisco
Madero. Government troops surrendered on May 10th. |
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| May 11th |
|
In
the United States, American actor and comedian Phil Silvers
was born. Silvers starred as Sgt Ernie Bilko in the hit tv series
Sgt. Bilko in the 1950s. |
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| May 18th |
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The
Austrian composer Gustav Mahler died. |
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| May 17th |
|
In
Mexico, President Porfirio Díaz was convinced to resign
but he does not do it officially. |
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| May 21st |
|
In
Mexico, a peace treaty struck between Francisco Madero's rebels
and government troops in Ciudad Juarez. |
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| May 24th |
|
In
Mexico, government troops open fire at and kill 200 people at
a anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City. Government officially
claimed that only 40 demonstrators were killed by the troops. |
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| May 25th |
|
In
Mexico, ex-President Porfirio Diaz of mexico signed his resignation
and left for Veracruz. |
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| May 31th |
|
Ex-President Porfirio Diaz left mexico to live in exile in France. |
|
| June 7th |
|
In
Mexico, rebel leader Francisco Madero arrived in Mexico City
just after a local earthquake in the region. |
|
| June 15th |
|
In
the United States, IBM was incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company in New York. |
|
| June 22nd |
|
In
Britain, the Coronation of King George V and his wife Queen
Mary took place at Westminster Abbey in London. |
|
| July 24th |
|
The lost ancient city of Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram
Bingham. |
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| August 9th |
|
Raunds,
Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C),
the highest UK temperature until 1990. |
|
| August 10th |
|
In
Britain, MPs (Members of Parliament) voted to receive paid salaries
for the first time. |
|
| August 22nd |
|
In
France, the theft of the 'Mona Lisa' was discovered at the Louvre
in Paris. Vincenzo Peruggia was captured and the painting returned
to the Louvre in 1913. |
|
| September
7th |
|
In
France, the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested on
suspicion of the theft of the 'Mona Lisa' from the Louvre. Apollinaire
was later released from jail. |
|
| September
20th |
|
In
Britain, the liner RMS Olympic, the sister ship to the RMS Titanic,
collided with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside the port
of Southampton. |
|
| October 10th |
|
In
China, revolution exploded with the 'Wuchang Uprising' against
the Manchu dynasty and would lead to the founding of the Republic
of China. |
|
| October 16th |
|
In
Mexico, Felipe Diaz, nephew of the ex-Mexican President, Porfirio
Diaz, occupied the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against
the rebel leader of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero. |
|
| October 18th |
|
In
China, the Chinese Revolution was successful and the revolutionaries
under Sun Yat-sen toppled and overthrew China's Manchu dynasty. |
|
| November
3rd |
|
In
the United States, Chevrolet officially entered the automobile
market to compete with Ford and its Model T. |
|
| November
5th |
|
Italian
troops invaded and conquered Libya. Italy annexed Libya's capital
Tripoli and Cyrenaica. |
|
| December
11th |
|
In
India, the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary took place
in New Delhi. The coronation established the King and Queen
as both Emperor and Empressof India. |
|
| December
12th |
|
In
India, the capital of India was changed to New Delhi from Calcutta,
now known as Kolkata. |
|
| December
14th |
|
Roald
Amundsen's expedition reached the South Pole. |
|
| December
29th |
|
In
China, as a result of the 'Wuchang Uprising' and the overthrow
of the Manchu dynasty, Sun Yat-sen became the first President
of the Republic of China. |
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