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News and Events of 1911

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Tobias M. C. Asser (Holland) and Alfred H. Fried (Austria)

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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.

President: William H. Taft
Vice President: James S. Sherman
Population: 93,863,000

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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

Federal spending:   $0.69 billion
Unemployment:   6.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Philadelphia A's d. NY Giants (4-2)

Ottawa Senators

Women: Dorothea Chambers d. D. Boothby (6-0 6-0)
Men: Tony Wilding d. R. Barrett (6-4 4-6 2-6 6-2 (ret))

Meridian

Princeton (CFRA, HF) (8-0-2) & Penn St. (NCF) (8-0-1)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)

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

Chemistry: Marie Curie (France), for discovery of elements radium and polonium

Physics: Wilhelm Wien (Germany), for his laws governing the radiation of heat

Physiology or Medicine: Allvar Gullstrand (Sweden), for work on the dioptrics of the eye

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.