September 1911 in History

Events in History

Sep 1 Anthony Fokker famously flies his aircraft "Spin" around the tower of the Grote Kerk in Haarlem

Sep 1 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
Sep 2 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
Sep 4 French aviator Roland Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
Sep 9 1st European post delivered by air (Hendon to Windsor, England)
Sep 14 Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime had been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents
Sep 17 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
Sep 18 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown

Sep 18 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli" premieres in NYC

Sep 21 Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier loses the election to Robert Borden of the Conservative Party

Sep 29 Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War

Sep 2 Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
Sep 6 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary, born in Vancouver (d. 1996)
Sep 7 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria communist leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB), 1954-89, born in Pravets, Kingdom of Bulgaria (d. 1998)
Sep 9 John Gorton, Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1968-71), born in Wellington New Zealand (disputed) (d. 2002)
Sep 9 Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
Sep 15 Luther Terry, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (1961-65) warned against smoking, born in Red Level, Alabama (d. 1985)
Sep 16 Wilfred Burchett, Australian communist and writer (Catapult to Freedom), born in Clifton Hill, Melbourne (d. 1983)

Sep 19 English novelist (Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize for Literature 1983), born in Newquay, Cornwall

Sep 20 Shriram Sharma, Indian spiritual leader and founder of "All World Gayatri Pariwar", born in Agra, India (d. 1990)
Sep 23 Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)

Sep 24 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984-85), born in Bolshaya Tes, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire

Sep 25 Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (People's National Movement: 1962-81), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981) [1]
Sep 27 Peter Doig, British Labour Party politician, born in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland (d. 1996)
Sep 29 Reginald Victor Jones, British scientist who worked in military intelligence in WWII, born in London, England (d. 1997)

Sep 11 Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
Sep 11 William R. Boggs, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and chief of engineers, dies at 82
Sep 16 Edward Whymper, English mountaineer 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865), dies at 71
Sep 18 Peter Stolypin, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
Sep 21 Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister, dies
Sep 27 Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and petrologist, dies at 67
Sep 28 Louis Pincoffs, Dutch businessman and politician (1st-Chamber), dies