February 1, 1911 (Wednesday)

• Thirty people were killed in an explosion at Communipaw
  Communipaw
  Communipaw is a section of Jersey City, New Jersey west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, and site of one the earliest European settlements in North America. It gives its name to the historic avenue which runs from its eastern end near LSP Station through the neighborhoods of...
  
  , New Jersey
  New Jersey
  New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
  
  . Employees of the Central Railroad of New Jersey had been unloading cases of black powder from the freighter Katherine W, when the accident happened at one minute past noon. The blast was felt 50 miles away, rocking office buildings and breaking windows in Manhattan, on the other side of the Hudson River. Eight officials of the railroad and the Du Pont Powder Company were indicted for the disaster.
• The Governor of the Isfahan province of Persia (now Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  ) was shot. Mutemidi Khan and his nephew were murdered by a Russian national who had formerly been the chief of police in Isfahan.
• The British super-dreadnought, HMS Thunderer
  HMS Thunderer (1911)
  HMS Thunderer was the third Orion class battleship built for the Royal Navy and was the last vessel to be constructed by Thames Iron Works. She was the last and largest warship ever built on the River Thames, and after her completion her builders declared bankruptcy.By a margin of £1000, she was...
  
  , was launched.
• Ziebach County, South Dakota
  Ziebach County, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,519 people, 741 households, and 594 families residing in the county. The population density was 1.3 people per square mile . There were 879 housing units at an average density of 0.4 per square mile...
  
  , was established.
• Died: Admiral Charles Sperry, 62, commander of the Great White Fleet
  Great White Fleet
  The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with...
  
   expedition of 1907-09

February 2, 1911 (Thursday)

• The crews of the two expeditions to the South Pole confronted each other at the Bay of Whales
  Bay of Whales
  The Bay of Whales is a natural ice harbor, or iceport, indenting the front of Ross Ice Shelf just north of Roosevelt Island. It is the southernmost point of open ocean not only of the Ross Sea, but worldwide...
  
  , as Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova sailed alongside Roald Amundsen's ship Fram. Word of Amundsen's arrival was sent back to Britain and then reported worldwide. When informed that the Norwegian explorer was racing him to the pole, Scott is said to have replied angrily, "By Jove, what a chance we have missed! We might have taken Amundsen and sent him back to his ship!"
• Captain Bellinger of the French Army set a new record for most persons to fly in an airplane, carrying seven passengers on a short flight at Pau.
• Revolution broke out on the northern coast of Haiti
  Haiti
  Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
  
  
• The Honduras
  Honduras
  Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
  
   city of Puerto Cortez was turned over to the control of American and British soldiers
• Born: Richard H. O'Kane, Medal of Honor winner for his heroism on the U.S.S. Tang, in Dover, New Hampshire
  Dover, New Hampshire
  Dover is a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, in the United States of America. The population was 29,987 at the 2010 census, the largest in the New Hampshire Seacoast region...
  
  

February 3, 1911 (Friday)

• A group of 253 ice fishermen, who had set up a "fishing village" on an ice floe in the Bjorko Sound in Finland, were killed when a gale swept the settlement out into the Baltic Sea.
• George Grey, brother of British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, was killed by a lion while hunting in Nairobi,

February 4, 1911 (Saturday)

• Persia's Minister of Finance, Sani al-Dowleh, was killed in Tehran
  Tehran
  Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
  
   by two Armenian assassins who were Russian subjects. The Russian legation provided the men sanctuary, and refused to turn them over for prosecution by Persia.
• Died: General Piet Cronje
  Piet Cronje
  Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé, commonly known as Piet Cronjé was a general of the South African Republic's military forces during the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-1881 and 1899-1902....
  
  , 74, leader of the Boer resistance against Britain; and Owen Kildare, 46, crusader against slum poverty in New York.

February 5, 1911 (Sunday)

• The revolution in Haiti
  Haiti
  Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
  
   was suppressed after the leader, General Montreuil Guillaume, was captured by government troops and shot. General Millionard was executed two days later.
• A bolt of lightning struck the dome of the Missouri State Capitol
  Missouri State Capitol
  The Missouri State Capitol is located in the U.S. state of Missouri. Housing the Missouri General Assembly, it is located in the state capital of Jefferson City at 201 West Capitol Avenue. The domed building was designed by the New York architectural firm of Tracy and Swartwout and completed in 1917...
  
   building in Jefferson City
  Jefferson City, Missouri
  Jefferson City is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Cole County. Located in Callaway and Cole counties, it is the principal city of the Jefferson City metropolitan area, which encompasses the entirety of both counties. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,079...
  
  , setting a fire that destroyed the entire structure.
• Born: Jussi Björling
  Jussi Björling
  Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th Century, Björling appeared frequently at the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as well as at other major European opera...
  
  , Swedish operatic tenor, in Borlänge
  Borlänge
  Borlänge is a locality and the seat of Borlänge Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 49200 inhabitants in 2011.- History :Originally Borlänge was the name of a tiny village, and the first historical information about it is from 1390. The village was insignificant up until about 1870...
  
   (d. 1960)

February 6, 1911 (Monday)

• Born: Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
  
  , 40th President of the United States
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
   (1981-1989), was born at 4:16 a.m. in Tampico, Illinois
  Tampico, Illinois
  Tampico is a village located in Tampico Township, Whiteside County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census the village had a total population of 790, up from 772 at the 2000 census. U.S. President Ronald Reagan was born there and lived there for two brief periods of his...
  
  , to Nelle Reagan and shoe salesman John Reagan. He died on June 10, 2004.
• Born: William C. Beall, photographer for the Washington Daily News, who won a Pulitzer Prize
  1958 Pulitzer Prize
  -Journalism awards:*PublicService:**The Arkansas Gazette, for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of great public tension during the school integration crisis of 1957...
  
   for his image Faith and Confidence, in Washington, D.C.
• The explosion of the Pluto Powder Company in Winthrop, Michigan, killed 10 workers.

February 7, 1911 (Tuesday)

• Seattle Mayor Hiram C. Gill was put out of office by a recall election
  Recall election
  A recall election is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended...
  
   and replaced by George Dilling. It was the first city election in which women were allowed to participate, and the female vote was believed to have contributed to the recall.
• Bonneville County, Idaho
  Bonneville County, Idaho
  Bonneville County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 104,234. Its county seat and largest city is Idaho Falls...
  
  , was established.
• Born: Cornelius L. Reid
  Cornelius L. Reid
  Cornelius Lawrence Reid , was a well-known vocal pedagogue in New York City, specialist in the bel canto technique, and author of books on bel canto.- Life :Childhood...
  
  , American singer, in Jersey City, NJ (d. 2008)
• Died: Wallace Wattles
  Wallace Wattles
  Wallace Delois Wattles was an American author. A New Thought writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements....
  
  , 50, American author and spiritualist, author of The Science of Getting Rich
  The Science of Getting Rich
  The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles; it was published in 1910 by the Elizabeth Towne Company. The book is still in print after 100 years. It was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's bestselling book and film The Secret...
  
  and The Science of Being Great

February 8, 1911 (Wednesday)

• The civil war in the Honduras
  Honduras
  Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
  
   ended after President Miguel R. Dávila
  Miguel R. Dávila
  General Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuellar was President of Honduras between 18 April 1907 and 28 March 1911. He occupied various posts in the government of Policarpo Bonilla, before becoming President himself. He died in Honduras on 11 October 1927....
  
   and rebel leader General Manuel Bonilla
  Manuel Bonilla
  General Manuel Bonilla Chirinos was President of Honduras from 13 April 1903 to 25 February 1907, and again from 1 February 1912 till 21 March 1913....
  
   agreed to an armistice that included free elections to be supervised by American observers. Bonilla would be elected President on October 29.
• Nasir al-Mulk assumed power as the new Regent
  Regent
  A regent, from the Latin regens "one who reigns", is a person selected to act as head of state because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated. Currently there are only two ruling Regencies in the world, sovereign Liechtenstein and the Malaysian constitutive state of Terengganu...
  
   for the 12-year old Shah of Persia.
• Born: Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
  
  , American poet laureate 1949-50, in Worcester, Massachusetts
  Worcester, Massachusetts
  Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....
  
   (d. 1979)
• Died: Frederick Campbell, Earl Cawdor, 64, former Lord of the British Admiralty.

February 9, 1911 (Thursday)

• The U.S. House of Representatives approved the Crumpacker Bill
  Edgar D. Crumpacker
  Edgar Dean Crumpacker was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, father of Maurice Edgar Crumpacker and cousin of Shepard J...
  
  , increasing the number of U.S. Representatives, beginning in 1913, from 391 to 435, the number that it has had ever since. No state lost representatives, but 25 of the 46 states gained seats based on the 1910 census, and, pending statehood, Arizona and New Mexico were each given one representative. In later years, the number of 435 seats remained the same, but the distribution changed after each census.
• Voters in the Arizona Territory
  Arizona Territory
  The Territory of Arizona was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when it was admitted to the Union as the 48th state....
  
   approved the proposed state Constitution
  Arizona Constitution
  The Constitution of the State of Arizona is the governing document and framework for the U.S. state of Arizona. The current constitution is the first and only adopted by the state of Arizona.-History:...
  
   by a margin of about 12,000 to 3,500.
• The Viscount Harcourt
  Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt
  Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt PC was a British Liberal Party politician who held the Cabinet office of Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1910 to 1915...
  
  , British Secretary of State for the Colonies
  Secretary of State for the Colonies
  The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies....
  
  , ordered that the practice of indentured servitude for Chinese workers in British Malaya
  British Malaya
  British Malaya loosely described a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the Island of Singapore that were brought under British control between the 18th and the 20th centuries...
  
   was abolished, effective June 30, 1914.
• Goshen County, Hot Springs County, Platte County, and Washakie County, Wyoming were all established on the same day.
• Died: Maharana Shri Ajitsinhji, the Maharaja of Dhrangadhra
  Dhrangadhra
  Dhrangadhra is a city and a municipality in Surendranagar district in the state of Gujarat, India. During the period of the British Raj, the city was the capital of Dhrangadhra state, one of the eight first-class princely states of the Kathiawar Agency in the Bombay Presidency.-History:Dhrangadhra...
  
  .

February 10, 1911 (Friday)

• The French Chamber of Deputies passed a law reserving the use of the term "champagne" solely for white wine produced by vignerons or sold by négociant
  Négociant
  A négociant is the French term for a wine merchant who assembles the produce of smaller growers and winemakers and sells the result under its own name....
  
  s in the province of the Marne
  Marne
  Marne is a department in north-eastern France named after the river Marne which flows through the department. The prefecture of Marne is Châlons-en-Champagne...
  
  . The act outraged winemakers in other provinces of France and led to violent strikes.
• The Senate of France passed a bill setting clocks ahead by 9 minutes and 21 seconds in order to conform with the standard time
  Standard time
  Standard time is the result of synchronizing clocks in different geographical locations within a time zone to the same time rather than using the local meridian as in local mean time or solar time. Historically, this helped in the process of weather forecasting and train travel. The concept...
  
   in the United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
  , Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
  , Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
   and the Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
  .
• Mineral County, Nevada
  Mineral County, Nevada
  Mineral County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2000 census, the population was 5,071. In 2009, it was estimated to have dropped to 4,662. Its county seat is Hawthorne.-History:...
  
  , was established.
• Died: Zerelda Samuel, mother of Jesse James and Frank James

February 11, 1911 (Saturday)

• The Lincoln Memorial Commission was created to find an ideal site for the proposed Lincoln Memorial
  Lincoln Memorial
  The Lincoln Memorial is an American memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The architect was Henry Bacon, the sculptor of the main statue was Daniel Chester French, and the painter of the interior...
  
  . On February 3, 1912, the west end of the Washington Mall would be picked, and the building would be dedicated on February 12, 1915.
• In Grand Rapids, Michigan
  Grand Rapids, Michigan
  Grand Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located on the Grand River about 40 miles east of Lake Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 188,040. In 2010, the Grand Rapids metropolitan area had a population of 774,160 and a combined statistical area, Grand...
  
  , former President Theodore Roosevelt came out in favor of direct voting for U.S. Senators and for the Presidency. Though not a declared candidate, members of the crowd reportedly shouted "Teddy for President in 1912".
• Musselshell County, Montana
  Musselshell County, Montana
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there are 4,497 people, 1,878 households, and 1,235 families residing in the county. The population density is 2 people per square mile . There are 2,317 housing units at an average density of -Demographics:...
  
  , was established.

February 12, 1911 (Sunday)

• Born: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
  Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
  Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh served as the fifth President of Ireland, from 1974 to 1976. He resigned in 1976 after a clash with the government. He also had a notable legal career, including serving as Chief Justice of Ireland.- Early life :Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, one of four children, was born on 12 February...
  
  , 5th President of Ireland
  President of Ireland
  The President of Ireland is the head of state of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the President does exercise certain limited powers with absolute...
  
   (1974-76), in Bray (d. 1978); and Stephen H. Sholes
  Stephen H. Sholes
  Stephen H. Sholes was a prominent recording executive with RCA Victor.-Career:He was born Stephen Henry Sholes, in Washington, D.C.. His family moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his father worked in the RCA Victor plant. Sholes started work at RCA Victor as a messenger boy in 1929...
  
  , American record producer, in Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
  
   (d. 1968)
• Died: General Alexander S. Webb
  Alexander S. Webb
  Alexander Stewart Webb was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg...
  
  , 75, hero at Battle of Gettysburg
  Battle of Gettysburg
  The Battle of Gettysburg , was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac...
  
  , Medal of Honor recipient, and President of City College of New York
  City College of New York
  The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
  
   (1869-1902)
• In 12 February 1911 Galatasaray SK achieved his highest Kıtalar Arası Derbi
  Kıtalar Arası Derbi
  Kıtalar Arası Derbi , is the name given to any football match between Fenerbahçe SK and Galatasaray SK.It involves two of the most successful clubs in the Süper Lig. It is also a local derby, one of many involving Istanbul clubs...
  
   win beating Fenerbahçe SK
  Fenerbahçe SK
  Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü is a professional sports club based in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey. The club derives its name from the Fenerbahçe neighbourhood of Istanbul. Fenerbahçe is one of the biggest and the best supported clubs in Turkey. They are nicknamed Sarı Kanaryalar )...
  
   7-0 with only 7 players on the pitch. 4 goals were scored by Celal İbrahim
  Celal İbrahim
  Celal Ibrahim was a Kurdish footballer and one of the founder of Galatasaray SK. He spent the entirety of his career with his hometown club. He was martyred in the Defense of Baghdad, Iraq on March 21, 1917...
  
  , 2 by Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu
  Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu
  Emin Bülent Serdaroğlu was a Turkish footballer, a poet and one of the founder of Galatasaray SK. He spent the entirety of his career with his hometown club. His grandfather was Serdar-ı Ekrem Ömer Pasha and his father was Ömer Muzaffer Bey. He lost his mother during childhood. He graduated from...
  
   and 1 goal was scored by Idris.

February 13, 1911 (Monday)

• Nicaragua
  Nicaragua
  Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
  
  's President Juan José Estrada
  Juan José Estrada
  Juan José Estrada Morales was the President of Nicaragua from 30 August 1910 to 9 May 1911.-Biography:He was a member of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua. He began a rebellion against the liberal government of José Santos Zelaya in 1909. Zelaya soon resigned, and in August 1910 the unstable...
  
   declared martial law after an explosion in Managua
  Managua
  Managua is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as the department and municipality by the same name. It is the largest city in Nicaragua in terms of population and geographic size. Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Xolotlán or Lake Managua, the city was declared the national capital in...
  
   destroyed a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
• Campbell County, Wyoming, was established.
• Born: Jean Muir
  Jean Muir
  Jean Elizabeth Muir, CBE, FCSD was an English fashion designer .-History and early career:...
  
  , American actress, in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   (d. 1996)

February 14, 1911 (Tuesday)

• In a major turning point in the Mexican Revolution, Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician, he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce...
  
   crossed the Rio Grande
  Rio Grande
  The Rio Grande is a river that flows from southwestern Colorado in the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way it forms part of the Mexico – United States border. Its length varies as its course changes...
  
   from Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
   and into Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
  's Chihuahua State to take command of rebel forces. Madero had departed the United States after a warrant was issued for his arrest for violating U.S. neutrality laws.
• The House of Representatives approved the controversial reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Canada, by a 221-92 margin.
• Niobrara County, Wyoming was established.
• Born: Willem J. Kolff, Dutch biophysicist who, in 1943, created the first machinery for kidney dialysis, and later patented the first artificial heart; at Leiden (d. 2009)

February 15, 1911 (Wednesday)

• Jess Willard
  Jess Willard
  Jess Willard was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He won the heavyweight title from Jack Johnson in April 1915 and lost it to Jack Dempsey in July 1919....
  
   fought his first professional boxing bout, losing in the 10th round on a foul. Four years after the debacle in Sapulpa, Oklahoma
  Sapulpa, Oklahoma
  Sapulpa is a city in Creek and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 20,544 at the 2010 United States census, compared to 19,166 at the 2000 census...
  
  , however, he became the world heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Jack Johnson
  Jack Johnson (boxer)
  John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...
  
  , and held the title from 1915 to 1919 before losing to Jack Dempsey
  Jack Dempsey
  William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first...
  
  .
• U.S. Patent 1,368,974 was granted for a medicine that purported to be a remedy for the treatment of tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
  
  . Marketed as "Savrite", the ineffective but all natural compound was made up of olive oil
  Olive oil
  Olive oil is an oil obtained from the olive , a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps...
  
  , squill root, almond
  Almond
  The almond , is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. Almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree...
  
  s, nettle
  Nettle
  Nettles constitute between 24 and 39 species of flowering plants of the genus Urtica in the family Urticaceae, with a cosmopolitan though mainly temperate distribution. They are mostly herbaceous perennial plants, but some are annual and a few are shrubby...
  
   and red poppy petals.
• Born: Leonard Woodcock
  Leonard Woodcock
  Leonard Freel Woodcock was an American labor union leader and diplomat.He was the president of the United Automobile Workers from 1970 to 1977 and the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China....
  
  , President of United Auto Workers
  United Auto Workers
  The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial...
  
   and later the first U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, in Providence, Rhode Island
  Providence, Rhode Island
  Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
  
   (d. 2001)

February 16, 1911 (Thursday)

• U.S. Representative William Stiles Bennet (R-New York), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution proposing that the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   annex Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  , after unsuccessfully opposing the reciprocal trade agreement.. Although the proposal had no chance of passage, it had the intended effect of upsetting people in Canada and the United Kingdom, and President Taft asked the Committee to put it to a quick vote. The measure failed in committee, 9-1, with Bennet being the lone supporter.

February 17, 1911 (Friday)

• The basketball team of St. John's College
  St. John's Red Storm men's basketball
  The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents the St. John's University in Queens, New York. The team participates in the Big East Conference. The men’s coach Norm Roberts was fired on March 19, 2010...
  
   beat the University of Rochester
  University of Rochester
  The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
  
   at home in New York City, 32-27, to finish the season unbeaten, at 14-0. The team, now St. John's University, won its games by an average of 20 points, with the exception of the Rochester win and a 25-23 squeaker over the powerful University of Pennsylvania on December 10. Although there was no national tournament at the time, the Helms Athletic Foundation
  Helms Athletic Foundation
  The Helms Athletic Foundation was an athletic foundation based in Los Angeles, founded in 1936 by Bill Schroeder and Paul Helms. It put together a panel of experts to select National Champion teams and make All-America team selections in a number of college sports including football and basketball...
  
   retroactively named St. John's as the national college basketball champion.
• The city of Lakewood, Ohio
  Lakewood, Ohio
  Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area, and borders the city of Cleveland. The population was 52,131 at the 2010 making it the third largest city in Cuyahoga County, behind Cleveland and Parma .Lakewood, one of Cleveland's...
  
  , a suburb of Cleveland, was incorporated.

February 18, 1911 (Saturday)

• The first air mail flight in history took place in India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  , when French pilot Henri Pequot carried 6,500 letters from Allahabad
  Allahabad
  Allahabad , or Settled by God in Persian, is a major city of India and is one of the main holy cities of Hinduism. It was renamed by the Mughals from the ancient name of Prayaga , and is by some accounts the second-oldest city in India. It is located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...
  
   a distance of 8 miles, to the Naini
  Naini
  Naini is a satellite locality/township of the city of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India in the south-east.-History:Naini was infamous for its prison, Naini Jail, where many freedom fighters—including Pt...
  
   junction. The mail was then loaded on a train and taken to Calcutta..
• The Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
  
   Library, housing most of the works of Samuel Clemens, was opened in Redding, Connecticut. However, most of the collection disappeared over the years.
• Born: Merle Oberon
  Merle Oberon
  Merle Oberon was an Indian-born British actress best known for her screen performances in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Cowboy and the Lady . She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII . She travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel...
  
  , British actress, as Estelle Merle Thompson in Mumbai
  Mumbai
  Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
  
  , British India (d. 1979)
• an magnitude 6.5 earthquake created the highest dam in the world - the Usoi Dam
  Usoi Dam
  The Usoi Dam is a natural landslide dam along the Murghab River in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. At high, it is the tallest dam in the world, either natural or man-made...
  
  , across the Murghab River

February 19, 1911 (Sunday)

• In a burst of inspiration, Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
  n composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
   Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
  
   composed the first five of his famous "6 Little Piano Pieces" (Sechs kleine Klavierstücke
  Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke
  Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 is a set of pieces for solo piano written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, published in 1913.-History:...
  
  ) in a single day, each of the pieces described as "miniatures... shorter and more concentrated than any others in the history of music".

February 20, 1911 (Monday)

• To fight the bubonic plague
  Bubonic plague
  Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death...
  
   epidemic in China, which had killed thousands of people, the imperial government ordered villages to burn their dead.
• Lincoln County, Wyoming, was established.

February 21, 1911 (Tuesday)

• Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  , represented by its Ambassador Baron Uchida, and the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   (by Secretary of State Philander C. Knox
  Philander C. Knox
  Philander Chase Knox was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Attorney General , a Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of State ....
  
  ) signed a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation at Washington. On July 26, 1939, the U.S. would give notice that it was exercising its rights to abrogate the treaty, and it expired six months later.
• Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
   conducted his final concert, guiding the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for the premiere of the Berceuse eleglaque. Mahler then returned to Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
   and died on May 18.

February 22, 1911 (Wednesday)

• The vote on the first reading of the "Parliament Bill"
  Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949
  The Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 are two Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which form part of the constitution of the United Kingdom. Section 2 of the Parliament Act 1949 provides that that Act and the Parliament Act 1911 are to be construed as one.The Parliament Act 1911 The...
  
  , which would give the House of Commons veto power over the House of Lords
  House of Lords
  The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
  
  , passed 351 to 227. The third reading of the modified bill would later pass 362 to 241.
• Died: Frances Harper
  Frances Harper
  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African American abolitionist and poet. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, she had a long and prolific career, publishing her first book of poetry at twenty and her first novel, the widely praised Iola Leroy, at age 67.-Life and works:Frances Ellen Watkins was...
  
  , 85, African-American author

February 23, 1911 (Thursday)

• The entire population of an unnamed village near Harbin
  Harbin
  Harbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...
  
  , China, was found to have been killed by the bubonic plague.
• The Governor of the Chernihiv oblast
  Chernihiv Oblast
  Chernihiv Oblast is an oblast of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv.-Geography:The total area of the province is around 31,900 km²....
  
   Tchernigov province of Little Russia
  Little Russia
  Little Russia , sometimes Little or Lesser Rus’ , is a historical political and geographical term in the Russian language referring to most of the territory of modern-day Ukraine before the 20th century. It is similar to the Polish term Małopolska of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
  
   (now the Ukraine
  Ukraine
  Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
  
  ) expelled 200 Jewish families and ordered them to depart, on foot, through heavy snow.
• Avery County, North Carolina
  Avery County, North Carolina
  - Climate :As a result of its relatively high elevation, Avery County has a Humid continental climate enjoying considerably cooler summers than most of the rest of the Eastern US. Likewise, winters are longer, colder and snowier than most other locations in the region. This can be evidenced by the...
  
   was established.
• Born: G. Mennen Williams
  G. Mennen Williams
  Gerhard Mennen "Soapy" Williams, , was a politician from the US state of Michigan. An heir to a personal grooming products fortune, he was known as "Soapy," and wore a trademark green bow tie with white polka dots....
  
  , American politician, in Detroit (d. 1987)
• Died: Quanah Parker
  Quanah Parker
  Quanah Parker was a Comanche chief, a leader in the Native American Church, and the last leader of the powerful Quahadi band before they surrendered their battle of the Great Plains and went to a reservation in Indian Territory...
  
  , 65, Principal Chief of the Comanche Nation.

February 24, 1911 (Friday)

• The U.S. Senate ratified the commercial treaty that had been signed earlier in the week with Japan.
• Pope Pius X
  Pope Pius X
  Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
  
   declared that the harem skirt
  Harem pants
  Harem pants or harem trousers, also known as parachute pants, are women's baggy long pants tapered at the ankle, with side flaps on the hip that button at the waist area....
  
  , a new fashion out of Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  , received his strong disapproval. The statement, published in the Osservatore Romano, also said that wearers of the skirt would be excluded from Catholic churches.

February 25, 1911 (Saturday)

• A group of tribal chiefs in Morocco
  Morocco
  Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
  
   met at Agourai
  Agourai
  Agourai is a town in El Hajeb Province, Meknès-Tafilalet, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 13,291....
  
  , and agreed on the details for a planned assassination of Berber pasha Thami El Glaoui and Grand Vizier Muhammad al-Muqri
  Muhammad al-Muqri
  Muhammad al-Muqri is more known as an adviser and grand vizier to several sultans of Morocco while that country was still under French colonial domination....
  
  , to take place at a gathering of the leaders on March 14.
• Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  's opera Natoma premiered at Philadelphia, then moved to New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
• In the only engagement of the Mexican Revolution
  Mexican Revolution
  The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution...
  
   where he would command the troops, Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician, he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce...
  
   fought at the Battle of Casas Grandes
  Casas Grandes
  Casas Grandes is the contemporary name given to a pre-Columbian archaeological zone and its central site, located in northwestern Mexico in the modern-day Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is one of the largest and most complex sites in the region...
  
  . His rebel forces were routed by the government troops, and Madero himself was almost killed, after which he stayed away from the front.

February 26, 1911 (Sunday)

• In what has been described as "the last massacre of Indians in the United States", a group of Nevada
  Nevada
  Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
  
   state police fought with "Shoshone Mike", who had killed four ranchers in Washoe County
  Washoe County, Nevada
  Washoe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. The population was 421,407 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is Reno. Washoe County includes the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area.-History:...
  
  . "It was probably the first time in many years that bows and arrows have figured in any Indian fight", the New York Times noted. One of the white men died, while eight of twelve Shoshones, some of whom were children, were killed in the fight at Rabbit Creek, near Winnemucca
  Winnemucca, Nevada
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 7,174 people, 2,736 households, and 1,824 families residing in the city. The population density was 867.5 people per square mile . There were 3,280 housing units at an average density of 396.6 per square mile...
  
  .. Remains believed to be those of the group were kept in a museum for years, then returned to the Shoshone tribe for burial in 1992.

February 27, 1911 (Monday)

• The first electric starter for an automobile was unveiled, as inventor Charles F. Kettering, started the engine of a Cadillac in a few seconds, an alternative to the crank that had been used to start engines. The innovation, which depended on a 65 pound battery, was installed on 12,000 Cadillac automobiles in its first year, and Kettering would receive U.S. Patent #1,150,523 on August 17, 1915. "A few hours later, elated Cadillac engineers decided that since their cars were going to have a storgage battery and a generator, why not operate the ignition and headlights electrically also?"
• France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  's Prime Minister Aristide Briand
  Aristide Briand
  Aristide Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.- Early life :...
  
   resigned. He was replaced the next day by Ernest Monis
  Ernest Monis
  Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis was a French politician of the Third Republic, deputy of Gironde from 1885 to 1889 and then senator of the same department from 1891 to 1920...
  
  .
• Clearwater County, Idaho
  Clearwater County, Idaho
  Clearwater County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. Established in 1911, the county was named after the Clearwater River. As of the 2000 Census the county had a population of 8,930 . The county seat is Orofino....
  
  , and Moffat County, Colorado
  Moffat County, Colorado
  Moffat County is the northwesternmost and the second most extensive of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 13,184 at U.S. Census 2000. The county seat is Craig.- History :...
  
  , were established on the same day.

February 28, 1911 (Tuesday)

• In a surprise action, President Taft nominated William H. Lewis, an African-American from Massachusetts, to be United States Assistant Attorney General
  United States Assistant Attorney General
  Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General.The President of the United States appoints individuals to the position of Assistant Attorney General with the advice and consent of the Senate...
  
  . The U.S. Senate was near the end of its term, and did not take up the matter, and Lewis was sworn in while Congress was out of session.
• A proposed Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures...
  
  , providing for U.S. Senators to be elected by popular vote rather than by the state legislatures, received 54-33 favor in the U.S. Senate, but failed, by 5 votes, to get a 2/3 majority. The amendment was eventually sent to the states in 1912 and ratified the following year.
• Seventeen men were killed in a mine fire near Tonopah, Nevada
  Tonopah, Nevada
  Tonopah is a census-designated place located in and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada. It is located at the junction of U.S. Routes 6 and 95 approximately mid-way between Las Vegas and Reno....
  
  , including rescuer "Big Bill" Murphy.