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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:07 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:56 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:56 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:44 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:30 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:52 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:03 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:09 am
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1909 heart
January 5 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
January 28 – United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.
March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
April 19 – The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, now BP, is incorporated.
June 9 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With 3 female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for 59 days she drives a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles, from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.
July 26 – Work on the anti-aircraft gun commences
November 11 – The U.S. Navy founds a navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:10 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:32 am
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1911 heart
February 18 – The first official air mail flight takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.
March 24 – Denmark abolishes the death penalty and flogging.
March 29 – The United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.
April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" López is drunk.
May 15 – The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
May 31 – The hull of the White Star Line's new flagship, Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.
October 24 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years.
November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
In Canada, the Dominion Parks Branch (now Parks Canada), the world's first national park service, is established. In 1911 it falls under the Department of the Interior, and now resides within the Department of the Environment.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:54 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:29 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 1:21 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:57 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:04 pm
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