page_title: March 1911
section_title: March 18, 1911 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1911 / March 18, 1911 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Dedication ceremonies of Roosevelt Dam, Col. Roosevelt speaking.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1911:
context_section_description: Alexander's Ragtime Band, which would prove to be Irving Berlin's first hit song, was published for the first time, in the form of sheet music.  On May 23, the first recording of the song would be issued.
  At 5:48 pm, former president Theodore Roosevelt formally dedicated the Roosevelt Storage Dam in the Arizona Territory.  At 248 feet, it was the second largest dam in the world (after the Aswan Dam in Egypt), and provided the necessary water supply and electric power for the city of Phoenix to grow, from roughly 11,000 in 1911 to more than 1.5 million a century later.
  Italy's Prime Minister Luigi Luzzatti resigned.  He was replaced on March 29 by Giovanni Giolitti.
  Philadelphia won the National Billiard League Championship in a 50-47 victory over host Chicago, clinching the best of five series, 3 games to 0.
  The results of the 1910 German census were released, showing that as of December 1, 1910, Germany had a population of 64,903,423 an increase of 7.03% since 1905.
  Abraham Lincoln's funeral car was destroyed in a grassfire at Columbia Heights, Minnesota, six years after the late Thomas Lowry had bought it and worked on its restoration.  The only item that was salvaged was a coupling link.
caption: Dedication of Roosevelt Dam
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