Top News Stories from 1911
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Tobias M. C. Asser (Holland) and Alfred H. Fried (Austria)
More World Statistics... - 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
U.S. Statistics
President: William H. Taft
Vice President: James S. Sherman
Population: 93,863,000
More U.S. Statistics... - 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
Federal spending: $0.69 billion
Unemployment: 6.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
Philadelphia A's d. NY Giants (4-2)Stanley Cup
Ottawa SenatorsWimbledon
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))
Kentucky Derby Champion
MeridianNCAA Football Champions
Princeton (CFRA, HF) (8-0-2) & Penn St. (NCF) (8-0-1)Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature: Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- The first feature film is released when the two reels of D.W. Griffith's Enoch Arden are screened together.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
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
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - 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.
