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5 unusual facts about 1911


Champ Clark

In 1911, Clark give a speech that helped to decide the election in Canada.

Edward M. Shepard

At the United States Senate election in New York, 1911, Shepard was favored by the "Insurgent" Democrats, led by State Senator Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Engelbert Arnold

Engelbert Arnold (7 March 1856 – 16 November 1911) was a Swiss-born electrical engineer.

John Haire, Baron Haire of Whiteabbey

In the 1911 Irish Census the Haire family are documented as residing at 4 Century Street, Portadown.

William F. Sheehan

In the U.S. Senate election of 1911, he was the Democratic candidate to succeed Chauncey Depew as U.S. Senator from New York.


Alfred Whitmore

Major Alfred Whitmore (1876–1946) was an English pathologist who, together with C.S. Krishnaswami, identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in 1911.

Allen Coombs

Allen William Mark (Doc) Coombs (23 October 1911 – 30 January 1995) was a British electronics engineer at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.

Anderson baronets

The Anderson Baronetcy, of Parkmount in the County of the City of Belfast and of Mullaghmore in the County of Monaghan, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 June 1911 for Robert Anderson, Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1908 to 1910.

Atmospheric thermodynamics

In 1911 von Alfred Wegener published a book "Thermodynamik der Atmosphäre", Leipzig, J. A. Barth.

Begas

Reinhold Begas (1831 – 1911), German sculptor; son of Carl Begas

Bertrand M. Tipple

He was a delegate to the world convention of the YMCA at Robert College in Constantinople in 1911 and a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in Edinburgh, 1913.

Cayetano Alberto Silva

The march became famous in other countries over time to such an extent that it was played on June 22, 1911, during the coronations of King George V and Elizabeth II (with prior approval sought by the British government from Argentina).

Clare Purcell

Between 1911 and 1918 Rev. Purcell served the following appointments: Madison Circuit, the Owenton Church (later renamed McCoy Memorial) in Birmingham, and First Methodist Church of Sylacauga.

Coia

Emilio Coia (born 1911), artist and widely published caricaturist from Glasgow

Consulate of the Sea

The only known copy of this edition (as of 1911) is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Danny Is Dead

Danny Is Dead, the first EP and fourth studio album from American rapper/producer Danny!, is a half-hour long EP that was released July 17, 2007 (see 2007 in music) on Danny!'s 1911 Music/Badenov Records vanity label.

Dehesa

Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz (1892 to 1911).

Det 20de Århundre

In 1911 it published a text which was written by internationally known anti-Semite Theodor Fritsch, and translated by the Norwegian anti-Semitic writer Eivind Saxlund.

Duncan Frederick Campbell

Campbell entered the House of Commons at a by-election, 20 December 1911, defeating Andrew Macbeth Anderson QC, who sought re-election on being appointed Solicitor General for Scotland.

Ernest Failloubaz

In January 1911 Failloubaz received his new aircraft from Armand Dufaux, a Dufaux 5 biplane, later he acquired the licence to build it in Switzerland as Failloubaz-Licence Dufaux.

Faustino Aguilar

As a novelist, he authored the Tagalog-language novels Busabos ng Palad (Pauper of Fate) in 1909, Sa Ngalan ng Diyos (In the Name of God) in 1911, Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo (The Secret of an Island) in 1926, Ang Patawad ng Patay (The Pardon of the Dead) in 1951, Ang Kaligtasan (The Salvation) in 1951, and Pinaglahuan (Place of Disappearance) in 1906 (published in 1907).

Gale Sisters

June Gale, born Doris Gilmartin (1911–1996), twin sister of Jane: wife successively of Oscar Levant and Henry Ephron

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

George Corneal

From 1911 to 1914, Corneal was the basketball coach at Rock Island High School in Rock Island, Illinois.

George H. Utter

Utter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death from liver cancer in Westerly, Rhode Island, November 3, 1912.

Government of Zamboanga City

On recommendation of Governor John J. Pershing, the Legislative Council of the Moro Province passed on September 15, 1911, Act No. 272, converting the municipality of Zamboanga into a city with a commission form of government.

Hans Thacher Clarke

In 1911 he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, which allowed him to study for three semesters in Berlin under Emil Fischer, and one semester with A. W. Stewart at Queen's College, Belfast.

Hans Ussing

Hans Henrikson Ussing (30 December 1911 – 22 December 2000) was a Danish scientist, best known for having invented the Ussing chamber.

Harry Heltzer

Harry Heltzer (August 22, 1911 – September 21, 2005) was the Chairman & Chief Executive Office of 3M from 1970 to 1975.

Henri Deterding

He led Royal Dutch to several major mergers and acquisitions, including a merger with Samuel's "Shell" Transport and Trading Company in 1907 and the purchase of Azerbaijan oil fields from the Rothschild family in 1911.

Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood

James Walter Lascelles (1831–1901), Canon of Ripon Cathedral and Rector at Goldsborough, married Emma Clara Miles (1830–1911), daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet and had nine children.

History of organic farming

He published his findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries (1911, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-43609-8).

Hugo Bernatzik

Hugo Bernatzik lived with his family in Heiligenstadt, Vienna in a villa commissioned by his father in 1911, built by the architect Josef Hoffmann and furnished by artists from the Wiener Werkstätte.

Jean Charles Pallavicini

Jean Charles or Giancarlo Pallavicini (Desio, 1911 – Desio, 1999) was a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta, serving as its Lieutenant during 1988 in the interim between the Grand Masterships of Angelo de Mojana di Cologna and Andrew Bertie.

John C. McKenzie

Mckenzie was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1925).

John Mathieson

John Alexander Mathieson (1863–1947), Premier of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, 1911–1917

John S. Darling

John S. Darling (August 17, 1911 – August 23, 2007), was a prominent Virginia based artist was born in McLean, Virginia.

Julien Edmund Victor Gaujot

Julien Gaujot received the medal for actions on the Mexican border on April 13, 1911.

Michael Perrin

Born 13 September 1905 in Victoria, British Columbia he moved to England in 1911 with his British parents, who sent him to Twyford School and Winchester College, and from there to study chemistry at New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto.

Mongolian Revolution of 1911

By the spring of 1911, some prominent Mongolian nobles including Prince Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren persuaded the Jebstundamba Khutukhtu to convene a meeting of nobles and ecclesiastical officials to discuss independence.

Organized crime in Minneapolis

Organized crime in Minneapolis first attracted national attention in 1903, when thug and mayor Doc Ames (1842-1911) was exposed by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities.

Oseen equations

Using the Oseen equation, Horace Lamb was able to derive improved expressions for the viscous flow around a sphere in 1911, improving on Stokes law towards somewhat higher Reynolds numbers.

Paul Randall Harrington

Harrington was born September 27, 1911 and educated in the Kansas City school system, from which he graduated in 1930, having been named one of the State of Kansas' 15 most outstanding high-school graduates.

Red Kleinow

John Peter Kleinow (July 20, 1877 – October 9, 1929) was a reserve catcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1904 through 1911 for the New York Highlanders (1904–10), Boston Red Sox (1910–11) and Philadelphia Phillies (1911).

Robert Sutherland Rattray

In 1911 he became the assistant District Commissioner at Ejura.

Romaine Fielding

Born William Grant Blandin in Riceville, Iowa, he worked and acted in live theatre for a number of years until 1911 when he turned to acting, writing and directing silent films for Philadelphia-based Lubin Studios.

Siegfried Lipiner

Siegfried Salomo Lipiner (24 October 1856 – 30 December 1911) was an Austrian writer and poet whose works made an impression on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, but who published nothing after 1880 and lived out his life as Librarian of Parliament in Vienna.

Springbank Island

Canberry Creek which ran through the property was renamed Sullivans Creek after William Sullivan (1829-1911).

Tim Hendryx

Timothy Green Hendryx (January 31, 1891 – August 14, 1957) was a utility outfielder in Major League Baseball who played with four different teams between the 1911 and 1921 seasons.

Vladimir Varićak

This is a fundamental result for the hyperbolic theory which was demonstrated later by other approaches by Robb (1911) and Borel (1913).

Walpole Society

The Walpole Society, named after Horace Walpole, was formed in 1911 to promote the study of the history of British art.

Waterman Whatsit

The Whatsit was a swept-wing, tail-less airplane designed by Waldo Waterman between 1911 (when he first got the idea) and 1932 (when the prototype was finally in testing phase).

William Backhouse Astor, Jr.

4th 1946 (divorced 1952) David Pleydell-Bouverie, of the Earls of Radnor (born 1911)

William W. Cocks

Cocks was elected as a Republican to the 59th, 60th and 61st United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1905 to March 3, 1911.

Władysław Godik

He acted in the dramatic section of Hazemir and in 1911 he began acting professionally at Gershanovitsh in Vitebsk, playing Baynushl in Pintele Yid.


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