June 1911 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jun 10 Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam

Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Jun 11 The Greek national assembly adopts a more liberal constitution

Event of Interest

Jun 11 Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Marcus Garvey

Jun 15 Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
Jun 16 A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn
Jun 17 Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
Jun 20 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) incorporates (NY)

Royal Coronation

Jun 22 King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea

Jun 24 French couturier Paul Poiret holds his infamous 'The 1002nd Night' costume ball to launch his “Parfums de Rosine", 1st signature scent linked to a design house
Jun 26 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
Jun 28 Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
Jun 29 Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes Minister-President of Austria
Jun 30 Adolphe Messimy appointed French Minister of War
Jun 30 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes

Birthdays in History

Jun 2 Xiao Hong, Chinese writer (The Field of Life and Death), born in Hulan County, Heilongjiang Province (d. 1942)
Jun 3 Mason Gross, American TV quiz show personality and professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1977)
Jun 4 Austin Andrew Wright, British sculptor, born in Chester, England (d. 1997)
Jun 5 Arthur Vick, British physicist and vice chancellor (Queens University, Belfast), born in Solihull, England (d. 1998)
Jun 7 Brooks Stevens, American automotive designer (1949 Hydra-Glide Harley; 1963 Jeep Wagoneer), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1995)

Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)

Jun 10 British playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version), born in London

Milovan Djilas (1911-1995)

Jun 12 Yugoslavian politician and writer (The New Class), born in Podbišće, Montenegro

Jun 13 Albert Cleage, African-American theologian and religious leader, born in Indianapolis (d. 2000)
Jun 13 Luis Alvarez, American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel 1968), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1988)
Jun 15 Wilbert Awdry, British Anglican cleric and children's writer (Thomas the Tank Engine), born in Ampfield, England (d. 1997)
Jun 17 Viktor Nekrasov, Ukrainian journalist and novelist (V okopakh Stalingrada - Front-line Stalingrad; Kira Georgijevna), born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1987)
Jun 20 John Brightman, Baron Brightman, British judge of appeals, born in Sandridge, Hertfordshire (d. 2006)
Jun 23 David Ogilvy, advertising whiz (Ogilvy & Mathers)
Jun 24 Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer (Sábato Report), born in Rojas, Argentina (d. 2011)
Jun 25 William H. Stein, American biochemist (Nobel 1972), born in New York (d. 1980)
Jun 26 Edward H. Levi, American law professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
Jun 27 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr., American 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania (d. 1915)
Jun 29 Bernhard, German Prince (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands), born in Jena, Germany (d. 2004)
Jun 30 Czesław Miłosz, Polish-American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980), born in Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 2004)
Jun 30 Virginia D. Smith, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska), born in Randolph, Iowa (d. 2006)

Deaths in History

Jun 7 Maurice Rouvier, French statesman and Prime Minister of France (1905-06), dies at 69
Jun 9 Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate who smashed hotels with a hatchet, dies at 64
Jun 11 James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist, dies at 96