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* 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
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* J. L. Austin ( 1911 – 1960 ), British philosopher
* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).
* 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )
* 1911 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer of the Suez Canal ( d. 1976 )
* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )
* 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress ( d. 1989 )
* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer
* 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author ( d. 1995 )
* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )
* 1911 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer ( d. 2001 )
* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )
The Australian team from the 1911 – 12 tour.
Then England won in 1911 – 12 by four matches to one.
* 1966 – Flann O ' Brien, Irish humorist ( b. 1911 )
Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.
* 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist ( d. 1985 )
* 1911 – Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor ( d. 1990 )
* 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist ( d. 1911 )
* 1911 – István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician ( d. 1979 )
* 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist ( d. 1979 )
* 1911 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress ( d. 2002 )
* 1911 – Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy ( d. 1963 )
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* 1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
* 1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
A strong and prominent a cappella tradition was begun in the midwest part of the United States in 1911 by F. Melius Christiansen, a music faculty member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
These changes were incorporated into the 1764 book which was to be the liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church ( until 1911 when it was revised ) but it was to influence the liturgy of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
The last major outbreak of cholera in the United States occurred in 1910 – 1911.
* 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
* 1911 – The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed.
In the United States the response was from the famous strip cartoon artist Winsor McCay, who drew much more realistic animated figures going through smoother, more naturalistic motion in a series of films starting with the film Little Nemo, made for Vitagraph in 1911.
* 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States ( d. 2004 )
* 1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India ( now India ), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6, 500 letters to Naini, about away.
Hastings, tied with Eastbourne, recorded the highest duration of Sunshine of any month anywhere in the United Kingdom-384 hours-in 1911.
Harley-Davidson works in 1911By 1911, some 150 makes of motorcycles had already been built in the United States – although just a handful would survive the 1910s.
On March 12, 1911, Dr. Wright was quoted in as follows in an article in the New York Times: " Of all the nations of the world, the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita.
* 2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States ( b. 1911 )
* 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.
It successfully toured the United States with much of the same cast, as was done in those days, until 1911, and then became available for amateur use.
* 1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an " unreasonable " monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
Manchester United won the First Division for the second time in 1911, but at the end of the following season, Mangnall left the club to join Manchester City.
* 1985 – Luther Terry, American physician and public health official, Surgeon General of the United States ( b. 1911 )
* 1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
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