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June 22, 1911: George V crowned King at Westminster Abbey
June 4, 1911: Il Vittoriano dedicated in Italy
June 28, 1911: A piece of Mars falls on Egypt
June 6, 1911: Colima Volcano erupts in Mexico

The following events occurred in June 1911:

June 1, 1911 (Thursday)
  • The Senate voted 48–20 to reopen the investigation of U.S. Senator William Lorimer of Illinois, after voting against his expulsion on March 1.[1]
  • Chiang Kai-shek first reached national prominence when he delivered a stirring public lecture advocating a socialist government for China, which he would eventually govern.[2]

June 2, 1911 (Friday)
  • The city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was incorporated.[3]
  • Francisco I. Madero departed from El Paso, Texas on a Southern Pacific train at 1:30 am to make his journey back to Mexico City, to meet with interim President de la Barra. He stopped first at Spofford Junction, Texas, where he then crossed the border to board another train on June 2.[4]
  • Born: Hsiao Hung, Chinese female novelist, in Hulan, Heilongjiang province (d. 1941)
  • Died:

June 3, 1911 (Saturday)
  • L. Frank Baum filed for bankruptcy in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles after having incurred $12,600 in debts. He died in 1919 and never saw any more royalties from The Wizard of Oz, whose publishing rights remained with a trustee until 1932.[5]
  • Born:
  • Died: Edward Der-Pault, who overcame the handicap of losing both legs to become a high diver at amusement parks, was killed in Bayonne, New Jersey before a crowd of several hundred people. Jumping from a 50 foot high ladder into a 6-foot tank of water, Der-Pault had miscalculated the distance and struck the edge of the tank.[6]

June 4, 1911 (Sunday)
  • On the 50th anniversary of the unification of Italy, a crowd of one million people turned out in Rome to watch the unveiling of the Altare della Patria, a 250 foot high monument in honor of King Victor Emmanuel II.[7]
  • Born: Billy Fiske, American athlete who won gold medals in bobsledding in 1928 and 1932, in Brooklyn (killed in battle, 1940)
  • Died: Colonel T.M. Locke, 87, who had led the secession of Texas in 1861

June 5, 1911 (Monday)
  • Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire began his journey to "Rumeli", the Turkish name for the Empire's European provinces in the Balkans.[8]

June 6, 1911 (Tuesday)
  • Tazzia, the Moorish pretender to the throne of Morocco, was defeated at Alcazarquivir. Spanish troops landed at Larache two days later.[9]
  • A volcano in the Mexican state of Colima had its most violent eruption since 1869, which preceded a deadly earthquake in the region by 24 hours.[10]
  • Died: Edward Harrigan, 65, American comedian

June 7, 1911 (Wednesday)
  • An earthquake in Mexico killed more than 1,200 people. In Zapotlán, 500 people were killed. The first shock was felt at 4:36 am and lasted for more than a minute.[11] Francisco I. Madero made a triumphant entry into Mexico City on the same day.[12]
  • Died: Maurice Rouvier, 69, former Premier of France (1887, 1905–1906)

June 8, 1911 (Thursday)
  • The U.S. State Department gave permission for at least 1,500 Mexican soldiers to cross into the United States so that a rebellion in Baja California could be suppressed. The troops would be disarmed as soon as they crossed into Arizona, and their weapons and ammunition would be returned to them after they crossed from California back into Mexico.[13]
  • Frans Schollaert, the Prime Minister of Belgium, resigned after the defeat of his proposed education bill.[14]
  • Hiram Bingham III departed for Peru on the SS Marta to search for Vilcabamba[15]

June 9, 1911 (Friday)
  • Former Congressman Charles D. Haines of New York founded the "Guardians of Liberty", an anti-Catholic and anti-Negro organization that declared itself to be a "non-religious, non-partisan, non-racial moral force to promote patriotism and a sacred regard for the welfare of our country." [16]
  • Died: Carrie Nation, 64, American temperance activist

June 10, 1911 (Saturday)
  • The German battleship SMS Friedrich der Grosse was launched from Hamburg.[17]
  • The American battleship fleet arrived at Kronstadt in Russia. (June 11)[18]
  • At Rouen, France, the 1000th anniversary of the arrival of the Normans was observed. The Kensington Runestone, purporting to be a record of the arrival of Norsemen in Minnesota in 1362, was loaned for the celebration by the Minnesota Historical Society.[19]

June 11, 1911 (Sunday)
  • For the first time, the U.S. Senate approved an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to have its members elected directly by the people, rather than by state legislatures. The 64-24 approval of the proposed 17th Amendment, which changed the requirement of Article I, Section 3, was on an altered version of what had passed the House of Representatives. Voting on the "Bristow Amendment" (proposed by Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas), which added the language that "Congress may at any time by law make or alter" the date upon which the states voted on U.S. Senators, had ended in a 44-44 tie, which was broken by U.S. Vice-President James S. Sherman.[20] It took the U.S. House eleven months to approve the altered version, which was ratified by the states in 1913.
  • The Chamizal dispute was resolved when the International Boundary Commission, consisting of representatives from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, made its decision in a dispute over a 600-acre piece of land known as El Chamizal, which had been south of the Rio Grande in 1848, until the river's course was shifted by a major flood in 1864 and El Chamizal north of the border. The Commission ruled that 437 of the acres should be returned to Mexico. The U.S. refused to abide by the ruling. On October 28, 1967, the 1911 ruling was finally certified by a new treaty between the two nations, a concrete channel was constructed to prevent further shifting of the Rio Grande, the 5,000 American residents were moved out, and El Chamizal was returned to Mexico.[21]
  • Born: Norman Malcolm, American philosopher, in Selden, Kansas (d. 1990)

June 12, 1911 (Monday)
  • By a margin of 64–24, the U.S. Senate passed the House resolution for a constitutional amendment to permit direct election of U.S. Senators. At the time, the state legislatures elected their representatives in the Senate. An amendment to the House bill, providing for federal supervision of Senate elections, was tied 44-44, and Vice-President Sherman broke the tie in favor of the Senate bill.[22] The House finally accepted the amended version, 238-39, on May 12, 1912, sending the Seventeenth Amendment to the states for ratification. On April 8, 1913, Connecticut became the 36th of the 48 states to ratify the addition to the United States Constitution.[23]
  • Sultan Mehmed V of Turkey offered terms of peace for the Albanians within the Ottoman Empire, granting amnesty to Albanian insurgents who surrendered their weapons, and lifting the ban on Albanian-language schools.[24]
  • Born: Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian and Montenegrin Marxist, in Mojkovac (d. 1995)

June 13, 1911 (Tuesday)
  • The ballet Petrushka, composed by Igor Stravinsky and choreographed by Michel Fokine, was performed for the first time, premiering at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.[25]
  • The Majlis, Parliament of Persia gave newly appointed Treasurer-General W. Morgan Shuster, an American financier, full control over Iranian finances, empowering him "to establish whatever departments and appoint all staffs that he considers necessary".[26] Shuster's decrees would lead to a change in government and his firing on January 11, 1912.[27]
  • Born:
    • Prince Aly Khan, Imam of Ismaili Shi'a Islam and Pakistani playboy, in Turin, Italy (killed in auto accident, 1960)
    • Luis W. Alvarez, American physicist and inventor, and Nobel Prize laureate 1968; in San Francisco (d. 1988)

June 14, 1911 (Wednesday)
  • Dwight David Eisenhower, age 20, of Abilene, Kansas, took the oath of allegiance and began his military career at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, as one of 265 cadets. Eisenhower had been an alternate candidate for the academy, finishing behind another applicant in the qualifying exams, but gained admission after the other man failed a physical examination.[28] In the years that followed his big break, he would graduate 61st in a class of 164, rise in the ranks of the United States Army to five-star general and commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II, and, in 1953, the 34th President of the United States.
  • RMS Olympic departed from Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage, carrying with it 1,316 passengers and 850 crew, picked up additional fares at Cherbourg, France and then more at Queenstown, Ireland, before arriving to New York City on the 21st. At its launch, the White Star Lines' "floating hotel" was the largest ship ever, 883 feet in length.[29]

June 15, 1911 (Thursday)

June 16, 1911 (Friday)
  • The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was incorporated in the State of New York.[31] On February 14, 1924, it would change its name to International Business Machines, more commonly known as IBM and grow in size to become, at one time, the largest manufacturer of electric typewriters and, later, computers.[32]
  • Halley's Comet was photographed for the last time in more than 70 years, as it moved on out of the solar system. It would not be seen again from Earth until October 16, 1982.[33]

June 17, 1911 (Saturday)
  • Arab rebels surprised Turkish troops in a battle at the port city of Gheesan (now Jizan, Saudi Arabia), and killed and wounded many of them. By mistake, the Turkish gunboat Sutebbe shelled its own troops. One estimate placed the number of Turkish dead at at least 1,000.[34]
  • The Women's Coronation March saw the largest demonstration up to that time in favor of British women's suffrage. Forty thousand women marched in London from Thames Embankment to Albert Hall along the route of the coronation procession.[35]
  • The University of Iceland (Haskoli Islands) was founded in Reykjavik with the consolidation of a theological college, a medical school and a law school. The largest higher education institute in the nation, the University has 12,000 students and 1,100 faculty members.[36]

June 18, 1911 (Sunday)
  • The Detroit Tigers broke the record for greatest comeback in a baseball game, after trailing the Chicago White Sox by twelve runs. Down 13-1, the Tigers won 16-15. The feat has been duplicated only twice, on June 15, 1925 (the Athletics beat the Indians 17-15 after being down 14-2), and on August 5, 2001 (the Indians won 15-14 after trailing the Mariners 12-0 and 14-2).[37]
  • As the water level from inside the wreckage of the USS Maine was lowered, the first human remains from the 1898 explosion were found. Sixty-eight of the men on the Maine were not recovered out of 252 killed.[38]
  • Died: James Proctor Knott, 80, former Governor of Kentucky, for whom Knott County, Kentucky was named

June 19, 1911 (Monday)
  • The first Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, with 192 deputies, convened. The first order of business was to vote for permanent banishment of the former royal family of Braganza. The United States recognized the new republic the same day.[39]
  • The General Motors Export Company was organized as the auto manufacturer made plans to begin selling GM vehicles overseas.[40]

June 20, 1911 (Tuesday)
  • The first trolleybus service was inaugurated in the United Kingdom, with the cities of Leeds and Bradford being the first to use the electric buses that drew power from overhead wires.[41]
  • Actress Sarah Bernhardt, on a visit to the United States, became the first woman to be admitted for a reception at New York's all-male Players Club, breaking a tradition dating back to the social club's founding by Edwin Booth in 1888.[42] Legend has it that "The Divine Miss Sarah" was trapped in the club's elevator for an hour while being escorted to see the apartment that Booth had occupied prior to his death in 1893.[43]

June 21, 1911 (Wednesday)

June 22, 1911 (Thursday)

June 23, 1911 (Friday)
  • Prime Minister of France Ernest Monis, recovering from injuries sustained on May 21, lost a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies, 243–224, and he and the entire cabinet resigned. The resolution was brought by Deputy Andre Hesse, three days after the Minister of War, General François Goiran, remarked that there was no provision for a Commander in Chief of French forces in time of war.[50]
  • Led by Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian nationalists gathered in the village of Gerche in Montenegro and drafted the Gerche Memorandum, later reprinted in Libri i Kuq (The Red Book). Demands were made in for Albanian autonomy within the Ottoman Empire, the teaching of the Albanian language in schools, and representation in the Turkish parliament by Albanian deputies.[30][51]
  • Born: Eddie Miller (jazz saxophonist), in New Orleans (d. 1991)

June 24, 1911 (Saturday)

June 25, 1911 (Sunday)
  • As Sultan Mehmed V continued his tour of the Ottoman Empire's European territories, the Sultan was greeted by thousands of loyal subjects in Greece as he paid his respects at the tomb of Sultan Murad II at Salonika (now Thessaloniki).[51]
  • Born: William H. Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1972; in New York City (d. 1980)

June 26, 1911 (Monday)
  • A group of 40 wealthy travelers, riding in twelve Premier automobiles, began a transcontinental journey, departing from Ohio Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey for a 4,617 mile journey to Los Angeles.[54] The "Premier Trip", which concluded in L.A. 45 days later, was followed by American newspaper readers and is said to have "inspired hundreds, and then thousands, of ordinary families to make the cross-country journey by automobile", as well as promoting the creation of a coast-to-coast highway.[55]
  • Baron Von Bienerth, the Chancellor of the Empire of Austria resigned after the Christian Socialists lost their majority in Parliament in 2 rounds of voting.[9]
  • Born:

June 27, 1911 (Tuesday)

June 28, 1911 (Wednesday)
  • The Nakhla meteorite fell in Egypt at about 9:00 am, near the city of El-Nakhla outside of Alexandria, with 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of mass breaking into forty pieces. The Nakhla meteorite was later determined to be one of 36 Martian meteorites originating from the planet Mars. In 2006, it was suggested by a team led by David McKay that the Nakhla meteorite, as well as an Antarctic one examined in 1996, showed signs of microbe alteration, evidence of life having once existed on Mars. One of the pieces of the Nakhla meteorite was said to have killed a dog, but as one author notes, "there is no real evidence for this having actually happened." [59]
  • Wisconsin became the first[60] U.S. state to enact a state income tax, when the state Senate approved the House bill by a margin of 15-14.[61] Governor Francis E. McGovern signed the bill into law on July 13.[62]

June 29, 1911 (Thursday)
  • Russia launched its first dreadnought sized battleship, and its largest warship to that time, the Sevastopol.[63]
  • Jewish buyers were admitted to the fur sales at Tyumen in Siberia for the first time, after a request by the U.S. Embassy in Russia to Premier Pyotr Stolypin. The Governor of Tobolsk had issued an order prohibiting Jews from attending the fair, including those from the United States.[64]
  • The Catholic Foreign Missionary Society of America was founded, with approval granted by Pope Pius X.[65]
  • Born:
    • Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Prince Consort to Queen Juliana and father of Queen Beatrix, in Jena, Germany (d. 2004)
    • Bernard Herrmann, American film composer whose scores included those for Citizen Kane, Psycho, and Taxi Driver; in New York City (d. 1975)

June 30, 1911 (Friday)
  • An A-1 Triad, a seaplane manufactured by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company was purchased by the United States Navy, becoming not only the first U.S. Navy airplane, but also the first airplane acquired by any navy.[66]
  • The Fuerzas Regulares Indigenas, commonly referred to as the "Regulares" was founded as an infantry battalion in the Army of Spain, and was initially composed of soldiers from Spanish Morocco under the command of Spanish officers.[67]
  • Born: Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate, in Szetejnie (now Šeteniai, Lithuania (d. 2004)
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References
  1. "New Lorimer Inquiry", New York Times, June 2, 1911
  2. Frederic E. Wakeman, History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought (University of California Press, 1973)
  3. Susan Gillis, Fort Lauderdale: the Venice of America (Arcadia Publishing, 2004) p22
  4. "Madero En Route for Mexico City", New York Times, June 3, 1911
  5. Katharine M. Rogers, L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz (Macmillan, 2002) p176
  6. "Killed by a High Dive", New York Times, June 4, 1911
  7. "Italy's Tribute to Victor Emmanuel", New York Times, June 5, 1911
  8. Şükran Vahide and Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi, Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (SUNY Press, 2005) p101
  9. The Britannica Year-Book 1913: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopædia Britannica (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913) p xi
  10. "1,300 Are Dead in Earthquake", New York Times, June 9, 1911
  11. "Mexico City Shaken; 63 Dead, Many Hurt", New York Times, June 8, 1911
  12. Frank McLynn, Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution (Basic Books, 2002) p106; "Mexican Capital Acclaims Madero"], New York Times, June 8, 1911
  13. "We Help Madero to Suppress Rebels- Mexican Troops to Travel to Lower California Over Railways in This Country", New York Times, June 9, 1911
  14. "Belgian Cabinet Out", New York Times, June 9, 1911
  15. Kim MacQuarrie, The Last Days of the Incas (Simon and Schuster, 2008) p379
  16. Peter R. DeMontravel, A Hero to His Fighting Men: Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925 (Kent State University Press, 1998) p368
  17. "German Warship Launched; Second Turbine Dreadnought Is Named Frederick the Great", New York Times, June 11, 1911; Gary Staff, German Battleships 1914-18 (Osprey Publishing, 2010) p14
  18. "Russia Greets Our Fleet", New York Times, June 12, 1911
  19. "Bacon at Norse Millenary", New York Times, June 11, 1911
  20. "Senate Adopts Popular Vote", New York Times, June 13, 1911
  21. "Chamizal, El", in Mexico and the United States, by Lee Stacy (Marshall Cavendish, 2002) p146; "Two Presidents End Long Border Dispute With Pageantry", Spokane Spokesman-Review, October 29, 1967, p1
  22. "Senate Passes Direct Vote Bill", Milwaukee Sentinel, June 13, 1911, p1
  23. Julian E. Zelizer, The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004) pp361–362
  24. Miranda Vickers, The Albanians: A Modern History (I.B. Tauris, 1999) p64
  25. David Dubal, The Essential Canon of Classical Music (Macmillan, 2003) p365
  26. "Gives Control to American", New York Times, June 14, 1911
  27. John A. DeNovo, American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, 1900-1939 (University of Minnesota Press, 1963) p55
  28. John F. Wukovits, Eisenhower (Macmillan, 2009) p14
  29. William H. Flayhart, Perils of the Atlantic: Steamship Disasters, 1850 to the Present (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003) p227 "The Giant Olympic A Luxurious Floating Hotel", New York Times, June 25, 1911
  30. George Gawrych, The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913 (I.B.Tauris, 2006) p186
  31. IBM History.
  32. Kenneth Lee, Trouncing the Dow: A Value-based Method for Making Huge Profits (McGraw-Hill Professional, 1998) p123
  33. Robert Burnham, Great Comets (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
  34. "Arabs Rout Turks; 1,000 Die-- Rebels Surprise Ottoman Column- Gunboat Shells Troops by Mistake", New York Times, June 24, 1911
  35. "Women's Freedom League", in Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (Routledge, 2001) p722
  36. "University of Iceland (UofI)", in Historical Dictionary of Iceland (Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, ed.) (Scarecrow Press, 2008) p220
  37. Cecilia Tan and Bill Nowlin, The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games (John Wiley and Sons, 2006) p102
  38. "Human Bones Found in Wreck of Maine", New York Times, June 20, 1911
  39. "We Recognize New Republic", New York Times, June 20, 1911
  40. Alfred P. Sloan, My Years with General Motors (Random House, 1964) p8
  41. "West Yorkshire's role in history", BBC.co.uk, January 15, 2010
  42. "Bernhardt Honored at Players Club", New York Times, June 20, 1911
  43. "A Male Bastion Bows, In Gracious Greeting", New York Times, April 22, 1989
  44. Sjeng Scheijen, Diaghilev: A Life (Oxford University Press US, 2010) pp231-232
  45. "Biggest of Liners Gets Noisy Welcome", New York Times, June 22, 1911
  46. "Conducting Wagner: The Search for Melos", by Christopher Fifield, in Wagner in Performance (Yale University Press, 1992) p7
  47. "Coronation Is Most Splendid in All of History", New York Times, June 23, 1911
  48. R.W. Rennison, Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England (Thomas Telford, 1996) p244
  49. Norma Cook Everist, Open the Doors and See All the People: Stories of Congregational Identity and Vocation (Augsburg Books, 2004) p97
  50. New York Times, June 23, 1911.
  51. Edwin E. Jacques, The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present (McFarland, 1995) p270
  52. Milan N. Vego, Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904-14 (Taylor & Francis, 1996) p83
  53. Mica Nava, Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference (Berg Publishers, 2007) p31
  54. "Amateur Motorists Start for the Coast", New York Times, June 27, 1911
  55. Curt McConnell, The Record-setting Trips: By Auto from Coast to Coast, 1909-1916 (Stanford University Press, 2003)
  56. "Beachey in Biplane Skims Niagara River", New York Times, June 28, 1911
  57. Cecil R. Roseberry, Glenn Curtiss, Pioneer of Flight (Syracuse University Press, 1991) p298
  58. "Swanson County", by Emily B. Smith, Chronicles of Oklahoma (December 1931)
  59. Martin Beech, Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds (Springer, 2009) pp23-26
  60. Patrick Robertson, Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011)
  61. "May Submit Income Tax to the Voters; Is Passed by Senate", Racine (WI) Journal, June 29, 1911, p1
  62. "Income Bill Just, Says Governor", Racine (WI) Journal, July 14, 1911, p10
  63. "First Russian Dreadnought", New York Times, June 30, 1911
  64. "Russia Heeds Our Protest", New York Times, June 30, 1911
  65. James Keller and Meyer Berger, Men of Maryknoll (Ayer Publishing, 1972) p
  66. Norman Polmar and Dana Bell, One Hundred Years of World Military Aircraft (Naval Institute Press, 2004) p9
  67. José E. Álvarez, The Betrothed of Death: The Spanish Foreign Legion during the Rif Rebellion, 1920-1927 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001) p11
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