What Happened In September 1911 In History

Historical Events for September, 1911

• 1st » The armored cruiser Greek cruiser Georgios Averof known as 'Georgios Averof' is commissioned into the Hellenic Navy called Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
• 7th » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the 'Mona Lisa' from the Louvre museum.
• 18th » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
• 23rd » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
• 25th » Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston
• 25th » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté or French battleship 'Liberté' detonates the forward ammunition magazine (artillery) named magazines and destroys the ship.
• 29th » Italy declares Italo-Turkish War named war on the Ottoman Empire.

Famous Birthdays on September in 1911

• 2nd » Romare Bearden, American painter and author (d. 1988)
• 2nd » William F. Harrah, American businessman, founded the Caesars Entertainment Corporation (d. 1978)
• 3rd » Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
• 6th » Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
• 7th » Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian politician, List of heads of state of Bulgaria named Head of State of Bulgaria (d. 1998)
• 9th » Paul Goodman (writer) known as Paul Goodman, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972)
• 9th » John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
• 11th » Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1971)
• 13th » Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
• 14th » William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (d. 1999)
• 15th » Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded Ping (golf) named PING (d. 2000)
• 15th » Luther Terry, American physician, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)
• 16th » Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist (d. 1983)
• 16th » Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 18th » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
• 18th » Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and politician (d. 1995)
• 19th » William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• 20th » Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist (d. 1991)
• 23rd » Frank Moss (politician) known as Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 24th » Konstantin Chernenko, Russian politician (d. 1985)
• 25th » Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
• 26th » Al Helfer, American sportscaster (d. 1975)
• 27th » John Harvey (actor) or John Harvey, English actor (d. 1982)
• 27th » Marcey Jacobson, American-Mexican photographer (d. 2009)

Famous Deaths for September 1911

• 11th » Louis Henri Boussenard, French explorer and author (b. 1847)
• 16th » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 18th » Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician, 3rd List of heads of government of Russia called Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1862)
• 27th » Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic (b. 1844)

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