January 1911

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The following events occurred in January 1911:

January 18, 1911: Eugene Ely lands airplane on ship
January 2, 1911: Police fight gunbattle on London's Sidney Street

January 1, 1911 (Sunday)

January 2, 1911 (Monday)
  • The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America was established at 200 Fifth Avenue in New York, with seven employees.[7]
  • Manuel Bonilla declared his intention to return to his former post as President of Honduras after he and his forces landed on that nation's Atlantic coast, near Puerto Cortez. From the capital at Tegucigalpa, President Miguel R. Dávila cabled instructions to seek American aid in resisting the attack.[8]
  • Born: Ray R. Myers, "the world famous armless musician", in Lancaster, PA (d. 1986)[9]

January 3, 1911 (Tuesday)
  • An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude struck near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.[10]
  • In the Siege of Sidney Street in London's East End, 1,500 members of the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards fought a gunbattle with a trio of anarchists who had killed three police officers earlier. When the building caught fire, two of the men burned to death.[2][11]
  • Nearly 13 years after its destruction in Havana Harbor, the battleship USS Maine was dredged to remove the remains of the sailors on board.[12]
  • The United States Postal Savings System, with 48 branches, one for each of the 46 states plus the territories of Arizona and New Mexico, formally began business.[13]
  • A truce was made between the two rival tongs of New York's Chinatown, with the Hip Sing and the On Leong gangs hosting each other for banquets, then participating in a ceremony as the 100 men in each group cut off their queues simultaneously. The truce would last for only one year, before the Hip Sing leader was murdered.[14]
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January 4, 1911 (Wednesday)
  • The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott, accompanied by the crew of the Terra Nova reached Antarctica, landing at Cape Evans, and prepared for an expedition to the South Pole that would begin on November 1.[15]
  • Born: Izzy Leon, light-skinned Cuban baseball player who pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945, after first playing in the Negro Leagues (1944–48), in Cruces, Cuba[16]
  • Died: Stephen B. Elkins, 69, former U.S. Secretary of State and incumbent U.S. Senator from West Virginia.;[2] and Charlotte E. Ray, 60, first female African-American lawyer

January 5, 1911 (Thursday)

January 6, 1911 (Friday)
  • U.S. President Taft refused to grant a pardon to H.S. Harlan, a wealthy lumber and turpentine factory manager convicted of labor violations, and signaled that he would not keep white collar criminals from serving prison time. "Fines are not effective against men of wealth," Taft wrote, adding that to relieve "men of large affairs and business standing" from incarceration "would be to break down the authority of the law with those of power and influence... What is worse, it would give real ground for the contention so often heard that it is only the poor criminals who are really punished." [18]
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January 7, 1911 (Saturday)
  • The world's first downhill skiing race was held, taking place at Crans-Montana in the Alps of Switzerland. Lord Roberts of Kandahar, British war hero, sponsored the trophy, the Roberts of Kandahar Challenge Cup.[19] Twenty competitors climbed to a hut at the Plaine Morte glacier and then made the 4,000 foot descent.[20] Cecil Hopkinson of Britain was the first winner.[21]
  • Monaco's Prince Albert I promulgated that nation's first constitution in response to protests against the absolute monarchy in the tiny European principality.[2][22]

January 8, 1911 (Sunday)

January 9, 1911 (Monday)
  • A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a federal court decision that had granted inventor George B. Selden an exclusive patent for the automobile. Henry Ford, who had been sued for damages in the form of royalties owed to Selden's Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM) had lost to Selden in September. Ford posted a $350,000 bond to fight the appeal and the Court ruled that Selden's patent was limited. Victorious, Ford was cleared to create the nation's largest automobile company.[24]

January 10, 1911 (Tuesday)

January 11, 1911 (Wednesday)
  • Dr. Russell A. Hibbs performed the first spinal fusion, at the New York Orthopedic Hospital. Applying techniques learned from knee surgery to the vertebrae of the spine, Dr. Hibbs operated upon a patient with spinal tuberculosis to prevent further progression in the curvature of the spine.[27]
  • Created to promote research in the natural sciences in Germany, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft) was founded in Berlin.[28]
  • Emilio Estrada was elected as President of Ecuador.[2]
  • Southern Arkansas University began its first classes, with 75 students and 5 instructors beginning their term at what was then called the "Third District Agricultural School". In 1925, it was renamed Magnolia A & M College, and in 1951, Southern State College. The current name was adopted in 1976.[29]
  • The town of Mamou, Louisiana was incorporated.

Born: Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan from 1980 to 1982; (d. 2004).

January 12, 1911 (Thursday)
  • An earthquake in Russia, at Vyerny, killed more than 250 people.[2][30]
  • For the second time in three days, Rapid City set a weather record. At 6:00 in the morning, the temperature in the South Dakota city was an unseasonable 49 degrees. Over the next two hours, the temperature dropped 62 degrees to 13 below zero.[31]

January 13, 1911 (Friday)
  • De Nachtwacht, painted in 1642 by Rembrandt van Rijn, was vandalized for the first time at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. A recently unemployed cook slashed through the 209-year-old canvas with a knife. On September 14, 1975, a retired schoolteacher cut through the 333-year-old painting and tore off a section in the center, and on April 6, 1990, another vandal sprayed sulfuric acid on the now 358-year-old masterpiece, which has been restored each time.[32]
  • Born: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)

January 14, 1911 (Saturday)

January 15, 1911 (Sunday)
  • Wu Tingfang addressed a crowd of 40,000 at the Zhang Gardens in Shanghai and announced that he had cut off the queue which he had worn in his hair as a sign of deference to the Qing dynasty, then urged the crowd to follow suit. At least 1,000 did so, and others followed suit as publicity spread.[34]

January 16, 1911 (Monday)
  • Paraguay's President Manuel Gondra was forced to resign after less than two months in office. The Congress of Paraguay elected Minister of War Colonel Albino Jara to succeed him, though Jara would be sent into exile on July 6.[35]
  • The town of Millersburg, Iowa, was incorporated.
  • The first military reconnaissance flight by airplane in India, and possibly in the world, was conducted by the British Indian Army from Aurangabad.[36]

January 17, 1911 (Tuesday)
  • Recommendations by the National Monetary Commission, for a "Reserve Association of America" with 15 districts were made public by a spokesman for U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. The plan was implemented, with changes, as the Federal Reserve System.[37]
  • Two shots were fired at France's Prime Minister Aristide Briand in the French Champber of Deputies. Briand was unharmed, but Messr. Mirmam, Director of Public Relief, was injured.[38]
  • Glenn Curtiss founded the first military flying school in the United States, at Rockwell Field on San Diego's North Island.[39]
  • The German submarine U-3 sank in the North Atlantic, but 27 of its 30 men were saved. According to reports, the crew "donned the special diving helmets and suits and were shot to the surface by means of the submerged torpedo tubes".[40]
  • Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as the 34th Governor of New Jersey. Slightly more than two years later, Wilson, who had never held a political post before becoming governor, would become the 28th President of the United States.[41]
  • The Scarecrow, by Percy MacKaye, was first performed.[42]
  • Haiti and Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) signed a peace agreement, with both sides withdrawing troops from their common border.[2]
  • Born: George Stigler, American economist, 1982 Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, in Seattle (d. 1991)
  • Died: Sir Francis Galton, 88, English explorer and biologist

January 18, 1911 (Wednesday)
  • Eugene B. Ely became the first person to land an airplane on a ship, bringing his Curtiss biplane down on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania, anchored thirteen miles out to sea from an airfield in San Francisco. A 127 foot long wooden platform had been built on the Pennsylvania, and 22 ropes strung across it. Ely's plane had three hooks on the undercarriage, to catch the ropes as the plane landed. Captain Charles F. Pond of the Pennsylvania praised the flight as "The most important landing of a bird since the dove flew back to the ark" [43]

January 19, 1911 (Thursday)
  • In Philadelphia, Dr. Edward Martin performed the first cordotomy on a human being for the relief of intractable pain, with the assistance of neurologist Dr. William Spiller. The two published their results the following year.[44]
  • The legislatures of both Ohio and Kansas ratified the proposed 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, providing for the collection of a federal income tax.[2] After a discovery was made in 1953 questioning Ohio's statehood, the validity of the 16th Amendment was challenged, although 41 other states also ratified the amendment.[45]
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January 20, 1911 (Friday)
  • Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon first had the insight of a connection between stress, increased secretions of adrenaline and higher levels of glucose in the blood, writing in his scientific diary, "Got idea that adrenals in excitement serve to affect muscular power and mobilize sugar for muscular use—thus in a wild state readiness for fight or run. flight or fight!"[46]
  • A fire in a mine at Sosnowiec in Russian Poland killed 40 coal miners.[47]
  • Died: Solomon Dresser, 68, founder of S.R. Dresser Manufacturing Co., predecessor to Dresser Industries.

January 21, 1911 (Saturday)

January 22, 1911 (Sunday)

January 23, 1911 (Monday)
  • Bestselling author David Graham Phillips was murdered in New York by a man who had been offended by his latest novel, The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig. Fitzhugh Goldsborough shot Phillips five times, then shot himself. The motive, police learned later, was that Goldsborough imagined that a character in the book was based on his sister. Phillips died the next day, after telling doctors, "I can fight two wounds, but not six." [51]
  • Chemist Marie Curie failed in her bid to become the first woman member of France's Académie des Sciences by two votes. From the 58 members, Curie received 28 votes, and Edouard Branly 29. On the next vote, Branly received the majority of 30, and Curie never again stood for membership.[52]
  • Born: Ralph Fults, longest surviving associate of Bonnie and Clyde; in McKinney, Texas. Released from prison in 1944 (d. 1993)

January 24, 1911 (Tuesday)
  • Kotoku Shusui and ten other persons were hanged, six days after being convicted of conspiracy to assassinate Hirohito, the Crown Prince of Japan.[53]
  • Born: C. L. Moore, one of the first women science fiction authors; as Catherine Lucille Moore in Indianapolis. (d. 1987)

January 25, 1911 (Wednesday)
  • An army of 1,600 mercenaries invaded in Honduras and battled at La Ceiba against the Honduran Army. Successful, the forces of Manuel Bonilla then marched to the capital, Tegucigalpa, which would fall weeks later.[54]
  • U.S. troops were sent to the Rio Grande to keep Mexican insurgents from crossing into the United States.[47]
  • John P. White of Iowa was elected as the new President of the United Mine Workers of America.[47]
  • Born: Kurt Maetzig, German film director (d. 2012)

January 26, 1911 (Thursday)

January 27, 1911 (Friday)
  • The University of North Carolina played its first college basketball game, defeating Virginia Christian College (now Lynchburg College 42–21 at Chapel Hill.[58]
  • Several soldiers were killed in a border clash between Peru and Ecuador.[47]

January 28, 1911 (Saturday)
  • The Diamond Match Company agreed to surrender its patent rights for a substitute for the poisonous white phosphorus, clearing the way for all matches to be safely manufactured.[47][59]

January 29, 1911 (Sunday)
  • Eighteen Mexican insurgents captured Mexicali, in Baja California del Norte, without firing weapons.[47][60]
  • The comic strip "Mr. Twee Deedle", by Johnny Gruelle, debuted in the New York Herald and later in newspapers across the U.S. Gruelle, who had won the chance to show his talents in a national contest, later became more famous as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy.[61]
  • Following two days of protests in Guayaquil, President Alfaro of Ecuador abandoned a plan to lease the Galapagos Islands to the United States.[47]
  • Born: Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
  • Died: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, 67, American author

January 30, 1911 (Monday)

January 31, 1911 (Tuesday)

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  8. "Bonilla's Flag Up", Washington Post, January 3, 1911, p1
  9. Ivan M. Tribe, Mountaineer jamboree: country music in West Virginia (University Press of Kentucky, 1996) p92; "Ray Myers — Armless Musician"
  10. "Thousands Dead Or Hurt In Earthquake", Pittsburgh Press, January 5, 1911, p. 1.
  11. "Reds Die in Flames Battling with Troops", Washington Post, January 4, 1911, p1
  12. "Maine Hulk Gives up Dead", Washington Post, January 4, 1911, p1
  13. "Postal Banks Opened", Washington Post, January 4, 1911, p1; National Postal Museum
  14. Bruce Hall, Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown (Simon and Schuster, 2002) p159
  15. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World (BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009) p52
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  38. "Attempted to Murder M. Briand", Pittsburgh Press, January 17, 1911, p1
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