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1911 in the United States
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s
Years:	1908 1909 1910 – 1911 – 1912 1913 1914
Flag:	46 stars (1908 – 1912)

Events from the year 1911 in the United States.

1 Events
2 References
3 External links

Events

January–March

January 18– Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
January 30– The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea, saving the life of John McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
March– The first installment of a serialized version of Frederick Winslow Taylor's monograph, The Principles of Scientific Management, appears in The American Magazine. The complete series runs in the March, April, and May issues, giving a boost to the efficiency movement.^[1]
March 10– The Kansas legislature approves House Bill Number 906, effectively the first blue sky law in the United States, culminating an effort by Joseph Norman Dolley, Kansas' banking commissioner.
March 25– A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kills 146.
March 29– The United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.

April–June

April 13– Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" López is drunk.
April 27– Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
April 30– Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine.
May 15– The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
May 23– The New York Public Library is officially dedicated.
May 30– The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp.'
June 5– Charles F. Kettering files US patent 1,150,523, for an electric starter.
June 15– IBM is incorporated as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) in New York.
June 16– A 772-gram stony meteorite strikes earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn, damaging a barn.
July 24– Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.

July–September

August 8– Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 (the law takes effect in 1913).
September 11– Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
September 25 – Groundbreaking for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, begins.
September 30– A concrete dam owned by the Bayless Pulp & Paper Mill breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania and continuing downstream about 8 miles into the village of Costello.

October–December

October 24– Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years.^[2]
October 28– The Rosicrucian Fellowship's international headquarters opens at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California (preceded by its formal constitution in August 8, 1909 at Seattle, Washington).
November 3– Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
November 11 – A record cold snap hits the United States Midwest; many cities break record highs and lows on the same day (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
November 17– The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded at Howard University.
December 24– The Lackawanna Cutoff, the first of two major cutoffs built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, opens just 3 years after it was built.