1911 The Year - Happy New Year, readers! And we wish you a prosperous and prosperous 2012! In going through old family photos and correspondence, I found many old postcards from 1911-1914. This is the first thing I found wishing 1911 the best of luck. As we approach the New Year, it's natural to reflect on the ending. This post will explore some of the themes and stories that were on the minds of our ancestors a century before the year 1911 ended.
On January 3, 1911, during the Sydney Street Raid in London, the Scots Guards fired on cornered activists. Image from a 1911 postcard depicting the siege.
1911 The Year
The year began with the Sydney Street Raid in London (also known as the Battle of Stepney), in which two members of a gang of burglars with rebellious tendencies died in a fire that destroyed their hideout and confronted the then-existing house. . Secretary Winston Churchill has been embroiled in controversy over his role in the conflict.
Bernhard Hertz, Sweden Year 1911. Antique Pair Of Silver Cufflinks.
The headline news of 1911 was the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910 and spread throughout the year, leading to the overthrow by March 1911 of the longtime president/dictator Porfirio Diaz, who had ruled the country since 1876. The United States sent 15 warships and 20,000 troops to the border in what would be a civil war in Mexico. By November, Francisco El Madero, the leader of the revolutionary opposition forces, came to power and assumed a presidency that would last less than two years when he was assassinated by military leaders loyal to the ideals of Porfirio Díaz.
In February 1911, the world watched in horror as a famine swept through China, causing thousands of deaths and suffering.
In the first high-profile wedding of the year, in February, John Beresford, or Lord Decies - married Helen Vivian Gould, an Anglo-Irish army officer, socialite and daughter of a railway executive and an American actress. The scandal rocked the US Senate in March when an investigation into allegations of bribery and unethical business practices against William Lorimer (R-IL) ended in a failure to impeach him. A second trial, then initiated in 1911, led to its abandonment in 1912.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire struck New York City on March 25, 1911, killing 146 men, women, and girls. It was the worst industrial disaster in New York City history and remains the third largest in the city's history. Most of the victims, mostly women between the ages of 14 and 48, were recent Jewish and Italian immigrants who died from fire, smoke inhalation or jumping from the building's eighth, ninth or second floor windows. The street below. . A post-fire investigation revealed that the management had closed the doors leading to the stairwells and exits.
Family Portrait,the Shot Was Taken Around 1911 Year Stock Photo, Picture And Royalty Free Image. Image 18498140
In 1911, aviation made great strides. French pilot Pierre Prior flew a plane non-stop from London to Paris, covering a distance of 290 miles in four hours. A direct flight today takes less than 90 minutes.Harry Nelson Atwood flew 576 miles from Boston to the White House lawn on July 14th, and in August he flew from St. Petersburg. Louis made history before the end of the year when Calbraith Perry Rogers completed the first flight across the United States on November 5, 1911, making 11 stops over 1,250 miles to New York.
June 1911 saw the coronation of King George V, who remained British Emperor through World War I and until his death in 1936. June also marked the silver wedding anniversary of President Taft and his wife, Helen Heron Taft. About 8,000 guests attended the event held at the White House on June 19. RMS Olympic, the same group of White Star liners that included the Titanic, completed its maiden Atlantic voyage when it entered New York City in June.
In the summer of 1911, the country celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the first major battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run. In September, America saw another wedding - this one between John Jacob Astor and Madeline T. Force. He would later survive the Titanic disaster. He won't do that.
There were many notable deaths in 1911, especially in October. On October 2, Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, a hero of the Spanish-American War, died in Santiago Bay. About two weeks later, on October 14, US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan died. A Kentucky lawyer and politician, Judge Harlan was a strong supporter of southern segregation laws and the outlawing of interracial marriage. By the end of October, on the 29th, Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist best known for journalism awards, died on his yacht in Charleston Harbor.
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In November, Henry Clay Beatty, Jr. was executed in the electric chair in Virginia for murdering his young wife, Louise. A few weeks after the birth of their child, Beatty killed Louise while she was in the car at night. He initially tried to blame the "high street man" for the crime, but his story soon fell apart. After his murder, he was ironically buried in the family plot next to his murdered wife.
1911 closed with the confessions of what was called the "Crime of the Century". In December, two Irish trade unionists, John J. McNamara and James B. McNamara, agreed to bomb the Los Angeles Times Building and the Llewellyn Iron Works in 1910, respectively. At the end of the trial, James was sentenced to life in prison and John was sentenced to 15 years in prison. James' crime, the bombing of the LA Times building, killed 21 newspaper workers and injured 100 others.
These events and names, so well known in the lives of our ancestors in the last century, may not be so well known today, but the themes – tragedy, war and celebrity – are still known. Most famous today for the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. It is also known as the year New Mexico and Arizona became US states. What is 2012 called for? What new history will be written?
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