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The following events occurred in January 1911:

January 3, 1911: Police fight gun battle on London's Sidney Street
January 18, 1911: Eugene Ely lands airplane on ship

January 1, 1911 (Sunday)

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January 2, 1911 (Monday)

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January 3, 1911 (Tuesday)

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January 4, 1911 (Wednesday)

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January 5, 1911 (Thursday)

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January 6, 1911 (Friday)

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  • U.S. President Taft refused to grant a pardon to H.S. Harlan, a wealthy lumber and turpentine factory manager convicted of labor violations, and signaled that he would not keep white collar criminals from serving prison time. "Fines are not effective against men of wealth," Taft wrote, adding that to relieve "men of large affairs and business standing" from incarceration "would be to break down the authority of the law with those of power and influence... What is worse, it would give real ground for the contention so often heard that it is only the poor criminals who are really punished."[20]
  • Died:

January 7, 1911 (Saturday)

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  • The world's first downhill skiing race was held, taking place at Crans-Montana in the Alps of Switzerland. Lord Roberts of Kandahar, British war hero, sponsored the trophy, the Roberts of Kandahar Challenge Cup.[23] Twenty competitors climbed to a hut at the Plaine Morte glacier and then made the 4,000 foot descent.[24] Cecil Hopkinson of Britain was the first winner.[25]
  • Monaco's Prince Albert I promulgated that nation's first constitution in response to protests against the absolute monarchy in the tiny European principality.[2][26]

January 8, 1911 (Sunday)

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  • The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, led by Douglas Mawson, commander of the Aurora, arrived at Cape Denison and encountered constantly blowing winds that dogged the group throughout its journey. Unlike Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott, Mawson sought to explore the Antarctic continent closest to Australia.[27]
  • Born:
    • Butterfly McQueen, (stage name for Thelma McQueen), African-American stage, film, radio and TV actress, known for Gone With the Wind; later the winner of a Daytime Emmy Award; in Tampa (d. 1995)
    • Gypsy Rose Lee (stage name for Rose Louise Hovick), American striptease entertainer; in Seattle (d. 1970)

January 9, 1911 (Monday)

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  • A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a federal court decision that had granted inventor George B. Selden an exclusive patent for the automobile. Henry Ford, who had been sued for damages in the form of royalties owed to Selden's Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM) had lost to Selden in September. Ford posted a $350,000 bond to fight the appeal and the Court ruled that Selden's patent was limited. Victorious, Ford was cleared to create the nation's largest automobile company.[28]

January 10, 1911 (Tuesday)

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January 11, 1911 (Wednesday)

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January 12, 1911 (Thursday)

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  • An earthquake in Russia, at Vyerny, killed more than 250 people.[2][35]
  • For the second time in three days, Rapid City set a weather record. At 6:00 in the morning, the temperature in the South Dakota city was an unseasonable 49 degrees. Over the next two hours, the temperature dropped 62 degrees to 13 below zero.[36][37]

January 13, 1911 (Friday)

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  • De Nachtwacht, painted in 1642 by Rembrandt van Rijn, was vandalized for the first time at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. A recently unemployed cook slashed through the 269-year-old canvas with a knife. On September 14, 1975, a retired schoolteacher cut through the 333-year-old painting and tore off a section in the center, and on April 6, 1990, another vandal sprayed sulfuric acid on the now 348-year-old masterpiece, which has been restored each time.[38]
  • Born: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-born Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland for 19 years from 1968 to 1987; in Dannevirke, New Zealand (d. 2005)

January 14, 1911 (Saturday)

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January 15, 1911 (Sunday)

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Wu Ting-Fang
  • Future Chinese Premier Wu Tingfang addressed a crowd of 40,000 at the Zhang Gardens in Shanghai and announced that he had cut off the queue which he had worn in his hair as a sign of deference to the Qing dynasty, then urged the crowd to follow suit. At least 1,000 did so, and others followed suit as publicity spread.[42]

January 16, 1911 (Monday)

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  • Paraguay's President Manuel Gondra was forced to resign after less than two months in office. The Congress of Paraguay elected Minister of War Colonel Albino Jara to succeed him, though Jara would be sent into exile on July 6.[43]
  • The town of Millersburg, Iowa, was incorporated.
  • The first military reconnaissance flight by airplane in India, and possibly in the world, was conducted by the British Indian Army from Aurangabad.[44]

January 17, 1911 (Tuesday)

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January 18, 1911 (Wednesday)

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  • Eugene Burton Ely became the first person to land an airplane on a ship, bringing his Curtiss biplane down on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania, anchored thirteen miles out to sea from an airfield in San Francisco. A 127-foot-long wooden platform had been built on the Pennsylvania, and 22 ropes strung across it. Ely's plane had three hooks on the undercarriage, to catch the ropes as the plane landed. Captain Charles F. Pond of the Pennsylvania praised the flight as "The most important landing of a bird since the dove flew back to the ark".[56][57]

January 19, 1911 (Thursday)

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  • In Philadelphia, Dr. Edward Martin performed the first cordotomy on a human being for the relief of intractable pain, with the assistance of neurologist Dr. William Spiller. The two published their results the following year.[58]
  • The legislatures of both Ohio and Kansas ratified the proposed 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, providing for the collection of a federal income tax.[2] After a discovery was made in 1953 questioning Ohio's statehood, the validity of the 16th Amendment was challenged, although 41 other states also ratified the amendment.[59][60]
  • Born:

January 20, 1911 (Friday)

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January 21, 1911 (Saturday)

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January 22, 1911 (Sunday)

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January 23, 1911 (Monday)

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Phillips
  • Bestselling author David Graham Phillips was murdered in New York by a man who had been offended by his latest novel, The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig. Fitzhugh Goldsborough shot Phillips five times, then shot himself. The motive, police learned later, was that Goldsborough imagined that a character in the book was based on his sister. Phillips died the next day, after telling doctors, "I can fight two wounds, but not six."[66][67]
  • Chemist Marie Curie failed in her bid to become the first woman member of France's Académie des Sciences by two votes. From the 58 members, Curie received 28 votes, and Edouard Branly 29. On the next vote, Branly received the majority of 30, and Curie never again stood for membership.[68]
  • Born: Ralph Fults, longest surviving associate of the criminal gang of Bonnie and Clyde; in McKinney, Texas (d. 1993)

January 24, 1911 (Tuesday)

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  • Kotoku Shusui and ten other persons were hanged, six days after being convicted of conspiracy to assassinate Hirohito, the Crown Prince of Japan.[69][70]
  • Born: C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Moore), one of the first women science fiction authors; in Indianapolis. (d. 1987)

January 25, 1911 (Wednesday)

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January 26, 1911 (Thursday)

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  • Glenn H. Curtiss made the first sustained seaplane flight, taking off from San Diego Bay in his D-Hydro-Aeroplane and then landing on the Pacific Ocean off San Diego. (Henri Fabre had made the first takeoff from water on March 28, 1910).[72]
  • The United States and Canada announced the successful negotiation of the first reciprocal trade agreement between the two nations.
  • Aviator Roger Sommer set a new record for number of passengers on an airplane, flying five passengers in France on a 13-mile (21 km) trip from Douzy to Remilly-Aillicourt, then back.[73][74] The previous record had been set by Sommer on April 20, 1910, when he carried four persons on a short flight.
 
Soprano Eva von der Osten as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier

January 27, 1911 (Friday)

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January 28, 1911 (Saturday)

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  • The Diamond Match Company agreed to surrender its patent rights for a substitute for the poisonous white phosphorus, clearing the way for all matches to be safely manufactured.[62][79]

January 29, 1911 (Sunday)

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January 30, 1911 (Monday)

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January 31, 1911 (Tuesday)

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