1911 Timeline

1911 Henry Ginaca invents machine (the "Ginaca Machine") that automated the peeling and coring of pineapples
A Dole engineer, Henry Ginaca, invents a machine that peels, cores and cuts pineapple at the speed of 80 to 100 pineapples per minute.
1911 Mondrian Moves to Paris
In 1911, Mondrian moved to Paris and changed his name (dropping an 'a' from Mondriaan) to emphasize his departure from the Netherlands. From this point on, he signed his work as "Mondrian...
1911 Taliesin Constructed
Taliesin, near Spring Green, Wisconsin, was the summer home of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright began the home in 1911 after leaving his first wife, Catherine Tobin, and his ...
1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried Win Nobel Peace Prize
Tobias Michael Carel Asser (April 28, 1838, Amsterdam – July 29, 1913, The Hague) was a Dutch jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the...
1911 Jan 1 First Issue of 'Boy's Life' is Published
In 1911, George S. Barton, of Somerville, Massachusetts, founded, and published the first edition of Boys' Life magazine. It was edited by 18-year old Joe Lane of Providence, Rhode Island...
1911 Jan 1 Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected to the New York State Senate
In 1910, FDR won a seat in the New York State Senate. It would be the only election in which he carried the Republican stronghold of Dutchess County where his Hyde Park home was located....
1911 Jan 3 The Siege of Sidney Street
The police were armed with bulldog revolvers, shotguns and rifles fitted with .22 Morris-tube barrels for use on a minature range, but these proved completely inadequate for flushing out ...
1911 Feb 6 Ronald Reagan is Born
Ronald Reagan was born in an apartment above the local bank building in Tampico, Illinois, on February 6, 1911, to John Edward "Jack" Reagan and Nelle Wilson Reagan. Reagan's father was o...
1911 Mar 16 Ottawa Senators win Stanley Cup
The 1910–11 NHA season was the second season of the now defunct National Hockey Association. Five teams played 16 games each, starting on December 31, 1910 and ending on March 10, 1911. T...
1911 Mar 23 Sinking of the SS Yongala
On the morning of 23 March, Yongala steamed into Mackay to drop off and receive passengers and discharge 50 tons of cargo, leaving 617 tons in the lower hold - 'properly stowed'. By 1.40 ...
1911 Mar 25 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Women and girl machine operators jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors in groups of twos and threes into life nets and their bodies spun downward from the high windows of the bu...
1911 Apr 10 Camp Fire Girls of America is Founded
In 1910, young girls in Thetford, Vermont, watched their brothers, friends, and schoolmates – all Boy Scouts – practice their parts in the community's 150th anniversary, which would be ce...
1911 May 23 Dedication of New York Public Library
President William Howard Taft presided over the dedication of the New York Public Library on May 23, 1911. Built on the site of the Croton Reservoir, the immense marble Beaux-Arts stru...
1911 Jul 16 Ginger Rogers is Born
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American film and stage actress, dancer and singer. During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and is noted for her rol...
1911 Aug 6 Edwin Cheney Divorces his Wife, Mamah Borthwick Cheney
Originally published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, August 6, 1911, page 3. Her Spiritual Hegira Ends in His divorce. ------------------------- Cheney Divorces Wife Who Eloped. -----...
1911 Aug 11 Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku Breaks The World Record In The 100-Yard Freestyle
During an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) swim meet, Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku broke the world record in the 100-yard freestyle swim by 4.6 seconds in Honolulu Harbor on A...
1911 Sep 25 Battleship Liberté Explosion
Liberté's magazines explode accidentally on Sept. 25, 1911, destroying the 3-year-old ship and showering her neighbors in Toulon Harbor (including République - below) with twisted, smolde...
1911 Sep 30 Austin Pennsylvania Flood
Sept. 30, 1911 ushered in the Potter County primary election. Early in the morning, two false fire alarms rattled the town. The Saturday shopping crowd descended on town as men gathered t...
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 1911 World Series
In the 1911 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants four games to two. Philadelphia third baseman Frank "Home Run" Baker earned his nickname during this Series....
1911 Oct 26 Mahalia Jackson Is Born
Mahalia Jackson, the "Queen of Gospel Song," was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 26, 1911. Jackson grew up singing gospel music at the Plymouth Rock Baptist Church where her fa...