The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
The Year 1911 Was c
 Great History Maker

$. w. E. U. OlOkeS SnOt In New 1Ork by Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad.
 10 American polo team beats Britishgin deciding game of international series
 13. Resolution for popular election of senators passed by Senate.
 1S European aviation circuit race be- gins at Vincennes, France Three avia- tors-Captain Princeteau, M. LaMartin fall to ground.
 19. President Taft celebrates his silver wedding anniversary.
 21. Arrival in New York of Olympic, largest passenger boat in the world.
 22. Coronation of King George of Eng land.
 2S. Cornell crew wins Poughkeepsie re- gatta.
 ?. Harry N. Atwood flies in biplane from Boston to New York.
 July
 8. Lieutenant Conneau (Andre Beau monD wins 1000 mile aviation circuit race from Vineennes over France, Belgium, Holland and England.
 12 American HarvardYale athletic team defeated by Oxford Cambridge team at London.
 IA Investiture of Prince of Wales of England.
 IS. Henry Clay Beattie shoots his wife. 22 Canadian reciprocity passed by Senate.
 27. President Taft signs Canadian reel procity treaty.
 August
 10. London dock strike begins.
 15 Harry N. Atwood starts flight for New York from St. Louis.
 19. English dock strike settled.
 23. Special session of Congress adjourns.
 22 Grand Army of the Republic spe- cial train wrecked near Manchester, N.
 Y., 37 Civil war veterans and members of their families being killed.
 27. Atwood arrives at New York, fin ishing his flight from St. Louis.
 September
 9. Col. John Jacob Astor married Mad cline Talmage Force.
 10. Cross continent aeroplane flight for Hearst $50,o0O prize officially begins.
 12 HI. Hilton of England wins worlds golf championship at Apawamis links
 15 Premier Stolypin of Russia shot while attending opera at Kiev, dying two days later.
 President Taft starts on trip through the west. r. Cal P Rodgers leaves New York on cross continent flight. Rodgers was the only one to complete the trip.
 21 Canadian voters reject reciprocity bill
 20. French battleship Lberte blown up in harbor of Toulon, killing 300.
  result of Tripoli controversy and rushes troops to Tripoi.
 30. One hundred killed by breaking of dam at Austin, Pa.
 October 9 Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley dies.
 13. Republic of China proclaimed at Wu Chang.
 14. Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States supreme court dies.
 19. Aviator Eugene Ely killed at Ma con, Ga. in Boston as slayer of Avis Linnell. 21. The lev Frank w. Sandford. lead CT of the Holy Ghosters, arrives in Port land, Me, aboard the Coronet. on which he starved the fanatical members of the party He was arrested. Chinese national assembly convenes. 2S. Winston Churchill is made England's first lord of admiralty, being succeeded as home secretary by Reginald McKenna. 26. Philadelphia Athletics win worlds baseball championship from New York Giants.
 %. Joseph Pulitzer noted publisher, dies. Names of IS new cardinals-designate Announced.
 November 1. President Taft reviews great battle ship fleet at New York. g. Kyrle Belew, famous actor, dies. 4. Chinese rebels capture Shanghai. con- trolling mouth of Yangtse-Kiang river. 5 Cal P Rodgers arrives at Pasadena, Cal, concluding his epochal flight from New York to Pacific coast. Ambassador Guild at St. Petersburg protests to Russia against alleged fn- suits to American Jews. G. Persia refuses Russia's demands to remove w Morgan Shuster, young Amer ican in charge of Persian finances. T. New Mexico's first election as state results in democratic victory S. United States circuit court of New York approves tobacco trust dissolution plan.
 1s. Chinese republic appeals for recog- nition by the world Russia starts troops for Persian from tier. 19. President Caceres of santo Domingo assassinated. 24 Henry Clay Beattie executed. 25. Miss Mildred Sherman marries Lord Camoys of England in New York. 30. Public consistory creating nineteen cardinals at Rome. December 1. McNamara brothers change pleas In dynamite cases to guilty" g. King George arrives in India for the Durbar- 4 Congress convenes.
 E. ]. B. McNamara sentenced for life; John J. to 15 years. President Taft send Congress message devoted entirely to trust problems. 6. Beef trust suit begins at Chicago &. Investigation board reports battleship Maine was destroyed by outside explo- sion, 9. POT miners entombed at Bricevili-, Tenn, by explosion. Constitution of Chinese republic framed. 12. Dunbar at India crowning King George emperor of India. Republican national committee names Chicago, June IS, for 1912 national con- | ventlon | IS. Sulzer bill abrogating passport treaty with Russia passed by House. | 1T. Alfred G. Vanderbilt weds Mrs. Mar garet McKim in London. Ambassador Curtiss Guild, at instruc- | tion of President Taft notifies Russia or intention to abrogate treaty of 1892 19. Senate approves President Tafts ao- | rogation of Russia treaty. President sends Congress special mes sage on wool tariff. John Bigelow, Americas grand old man." dies. | 21. Russian forces open hostiiities with | Persia, bombarding the governors palace at Tabriz