Top News Stories from 1911

World Events

• First use of aircraft as offensive weapon occurs in Turkish-Italian War. Italy defeats Turks and annexes Libya.
• Chinese Republic proclaimed after revolution overthrows Manchu dynasty. Sun Yat-sen named president. Background: Chinese Dynasties.
• Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz, president since 1877, replaced by Francisco Madero.
• Roald Amundsen becomes first man to reach South Pole. Quiz: Explorers & Adventurers
• U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Incan city of Machu Picchu.

U.S. Events

• Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York; 146 killed. Background: Fires and Explosions
• Supreme Court finds Standard Oil Company (May 15) and American Tobacco Company (May 29) to be in violation of Sherman Antitrust Act. Background: Antitrust, Again

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• The first feature film is released when the two reels of D.W. Griffith's Enoch Arden are screened together.

Science

• British physicist Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of an atom.
• American geneticist Thomas Morgan shows that inherited factors are represented by genes placed at specific sites along a chromosome.

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