1911
1st use of aircraft in warfare - Turkish-Italian War
The "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre
The fall of the Manchu Dynasty in China
The "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre
Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
Mexican Revolution begins
Bobbie Jones wins his first golf title at age nine
"Hope Diamond" sold for more than $300,000
1st Indianapolis 500
Harriet Quimby is the 1st American woman to receive a pilot's license
Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
Frank Mars begins a candy company
Proctor & Gamble introduces Crisco
Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Lucille Ball and Ronald Reagan born
W.S. Gilbert and Gustav Mahler die
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