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  • U.S.
    1911
    Lucky Luciano

    Luciano dropped out of school

    U.S.
    1911

    At age 14, Luciano dropped out of school and started a job delivering hats, earning $7 per week. However, after winning $244 in a dice game, Luciano quit his job and began earning money on the street. That same year, Luciano's parents sent him to the Brooklyn Truant School.




  • U.S.
    Sunday Jan 1, 1911
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Taking his seat

    U.S.
    Sunday Jan 1, 1911

    Though legislative sessions rarely lasted more than ten weeks, Roosevelt treated his new position as a full-time career. Taking his seat on January 1, 1911, Roosevelt immediately became the leader of a group of "Insurgents" who opposed the bossism of the Tammany Hall machine that dominated the state Democratic Party.




  • West Point, New York, U.S.
    1911
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower accepted an appointment to West Point

    West Point, New York, U.S.
    1911

    Edgar took the first turn at school, and Dwight was employed as a night supervisor at the Belle Springs Creamery. When Edgar asked for a second year, Dwight consented and worked for a second year. At that time, a friend "Swede" Hazlett was applying to the Naval Academy and urged Dwight to apply to the school, since no tuition was required. Eisenhower requested consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U.S. Senator, Joseph L. Bristow. Though Eisenhower was among the winners of the entrance-exam competition, he was beyond the age limit for the Naval Academy. He then accepted an appointment to West Point in 1911.




  • North America
    1911
    Halloween

    Guising

    North America
    1911

    While the first reference to "guising" in North America occurs in 1911, another reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.




  • Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
    Monday Feb 6, 1911
    Ronald Reagan

    Birth

    Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
    Monday Feb 6, 1911

    Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in an apartment on the second floor of a commercial building in Tampico, Illinois.




  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1911
    Father's Day

    Father's Day celebration be held in Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1911

    In 1911, Jane Addams proposed that a citywide Father's Day celebration be held in Chicago, but she was turned down.




  • Endicott, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 16, 1911
    IBM

    CTR

    Endicott, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 16, 1911

    On June 16, 1911, the four companies of, Julius E. Pitrap (patented the computing scale), Alexander Dey (inventing the dial record), Herman Hollerith (patented the Electric Tabulating Machine), and Willard Bundy (invented a time clock to record a worker's arrival and departure time on paper tape), amalgamated in New York State by Charles Ranlett Flint forming a fifth company, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) based in Endicott, New York.


  • U.S.
    1911
    Albrecht Kossel

    To The U.S.

    U.S.
    1911

    In the autumn of 1911, Kossel was invited to the United States to deliver the Herter Lecture at Johns Hopkins. Traveling with his wife Luise and daughter Gertrude, he took the opportunity to travel and to visit acquaintances, one of which was Eugene W. Hilgard, professor emeritus of agricultural chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, who was also his wife's cousin. He also visited and delivered lectures at several other universities, including the University of Chicago.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1911
    The Wright brothers

    The brothers disbanded the team

    U.S.
    Nov, 1911

    Before the year was over, pilots Ralph Johnstone and Arch Hoxsey died in air show crashes, and in November 1911 the brothers disbanded the team on which nine men had served (four other former team members died in crashes afterward).


  • U.S.
    Sunday Dec 3, 1911
    Willis Carrier

    Rational Psychrometric Formulae

    U.S.
    Sunday Dec 3, 1911

    On December 3, 1911, Carrier presented what is perhaps the most significant document ever prepared on air conditioning – Rational Psychrometric Formulae – at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It became known as the "Magna Carta of Psychrometrics".


  • U.S.
    1911
    Mother's Day

    The Efforts of Anna Jarvis

    U.S.
    1911

    Owing to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all U.S. states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday.


  • U.S.
    1911
    Lucky Luciano

    Luciano dropped out of school

    U.S.
    1911

    At age 14, Luciano dropped out of school and started a job delivering hats, earning $7 per week. However, after winning $244 in a dice game, Luciano quit his job and began earning money on the street. That same year, Luciano's parents sent him to the Brooklyn Truant School.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Jan 1, 1911
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Taking his seat

    U.S.
    Sunday Jan 1, 1911

    Though legislative sessions rarely lasted more than ten weeks, Roosevelt treated his new position as a full-time career. Taking his seat on January 1, 1911, Roosevelt immediately became the leader of a group of "Insurgents" who opposed the bossism of the Tammany Hall machine that dominated the state Democratic Party.


  • West Point, New York, U.S.
    1911
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower accepted an appointment to West Point

    West Point, New York, U.S.
    1911

    Edgar took the first turn at school, and Dwight was employed as a night supervisor at the Belle Springs Creamery. When Edgar asked for a second year, Dwight consented and worked for a second year. At that time, a friend "Swede" Hazlett was applying to the Naval Academy and urged Dwight to apply to the school, since no tuition was required. Eisenhower requested consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U.S. Senator, Joseph L. Bristow. Though Eisenhower was among the winners of the entrance-exam competition, he was beyond the age limit for the Naval Academy. He then accepted an appointment to West Point in 1911.


  • North America
    1911
    Halloween

    Guising

    North America
    1911

    While the first reference to "guising" in North America occurs in 1911, another reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.


  • Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
    Monday Feb 6, 1911
    Ronald Reagan

    Birth

    Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
    Monday Feb 6, 1911

    Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in an apartment on the second floor of a commercial building in Tampico, Illinois.


  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1911
    Father's Day

    Father's Day celebration be held in Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1911

    In 1911, Jane Addams proposed that a citywide Father's Day celebration be held in Chicago, but she was turned down.


  • Endicott, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 16, 1911
    IBM

    CTR

    Endicott, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 16, 1911

    On June 16, 1911, the four companies of, Julius E. Pitrap (patented the computing scale), Alexander Dey (inventing the dial record), Herman Hollerith (patented the Electric Tabulating Machine), and Willard Bundy (invented a time clock to record a worker's arrival and departure time on paper tape), amalgamated in New York State by Charles Ranlett Flint forming a fifth company, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) based in Endicott, New York.


  • U.S.
    1911
    Albrecht Kossel

    To The U.S.

    U.S.
    1911

    In the autumn of 1911, Kossel was invited to the United States to deliver the Herter Lecture at Johns Hopkins. Traveling with his wife Luise and daughter Gertrude, he took the opportunity to travel and to visit acquaintances, one of which was Eugene W. Hilgard, professor emeritus of agricultural chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, who was also his wife's cousin. He also visited and delivered lectures at several other universities, including the University of Chicago.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1911
    The Wright brothers

    The brothers disbanded the team

    U.S.
    Nov, 1911

    Before the year was over, pilots Ralph Johnstone and Arch Hoxsey died in air show crashes, and in November 1911 the brothers disbanded the team on which nine men had served (four other former team members died in crashes afterward).


  • U.S.
    Sunday Dec 3, 1911
    Willis Carrier

    Rational Psychrometric Formulae

    U.S.
    Sunday Dec 3, 1911

    On December 3, 1911, Carrier presented what is perhaps the most significant document ever prepared on air conditioning – Rational Psychrometric Formulae – at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It became known as the "Magna Carta of Psychrometrics".


  • U.S.
    1911
    Mother's Day

    The Efforts of Anna Jarvis

    U.S.
    1911

    Owing to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all U.S. states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday.


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