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July 1911
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The following events occurred in July 1911:

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July 24, 1911: Hiram Bingham "rediscovers" Machu Picchu
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Peru's Machu Picchu revealed to the rest of the world
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July 3, 1911: German warship Panther brings invasion force to Morocco
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July 1, 1911 (Saturday)

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July 2, 1911 (Sunday)

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July 3, 1911 (Monday)

  • The British strike of seamen ended, with the strikers winning most of their demands.[9]
  • Two days after it was dispatched to French Morocco by Germany, the gunboat SMS Panther anchored off of the coast of Agadir.[10]
  • The United States Senate voted 55-28 in favor of a resolution holding that the election of Senator William Lorimer of Illinois had been invalid, effectively removing him from office.[11]
  • Turk Yurdu Cemiyet, the Association of the Turkish Homeland, was founded by Turkish supremacist Yusuf Akçura, Mehmed Emin and Ahmen Agaoglu.[12]

July 4, 1911 (Tuesday)

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July 5, 1911 (Wednesday)

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July 6, 1911 (Thursday)

  • Charles Flint acquired nearly all of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (which later became IBM), buying out Herman Hollerith for $1,210,500. For the next 10 years, Hollerith retained control of design changes in the CTR tabulating machines and stifled the growth of the company.[18]
  • Publisher Charles Curtis debuted a new version of the farmers' magazine Country Gentleman, whose circulation had declined to only 2,000 paying subscribers at the time of acquisition. Within 30 years, he had increased the number of subscribers to 2,000,000. The magazine was discontinued in 1955 after being sold to the Farm Journal.[19]
  • An arbitration treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom was signed.[5]
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The Devil's Postpile, rescued from destruction
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July 7, 1911 (Friday)

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July 8, 1911 (Saturday)

  • The city of Burbank, California, with 500 residents, was incorporated. One century later, its population was over 100,000.[23]
  • U.S. Vice President James S. Sherman, in his capacity as President of the U.S. Senate, broke a long-standing tradition in Congress of using only hand fans for cooling, by bringing the first electric fan to the Senate Chamber. The same day, other members of Congress followed suit.[24]
  • Died: Ira Erastus Davenport, 72, American spiritualist and magician.[citation needed]
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July 9, 1911 (Sunday)

July 10, 1911 (Monday)

  • In arbitration by King George V, Chile was ordered to pay $935,000 to the United States Alsop firm. Alsop had demanded $3,000,000 with interest; the $935K was paid on November 13.[25]
  • The Royal Australian Navy was bestowed its name by King George V, having previously been the "Commonwealth Naval Forces."[26]
  • Troops from Peru, arriving on the launch Loreto and backed up by the gunboat America, arrived at the settlement of La Pedrera, established by Colombia on disputed territory on the Apaporis, a tributary of the Amazon River. Peruvian Lt. Col. Oscar Benavides gave the Colombians an ultimatum to abandon the outpost. After a battle of two days, the Colombians surrendered, and agreements on July 15 and July 19 ended the fighting.[27]
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July 11, 1911 (Tuesday)

  • The Federal Express, a passenger train on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad running the Boston to Washington route, jumped the track at Bridgeport at 3:35 am, killing 14 people and injured 42 more.[9]
  • France's Chamber of Deputies voted 476-77 to postpone further discussion of the Moroccan problem.[5]
  • The mining settlement of South Porcupine, Ontario was destroyed by forest fires that swept across the province. Forest fires had broken out across Northern Ontario, and over four days, they would kill 400 or more people.[28][29]
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July 12, 1911 (Wednesday)

July 13, 1911 (Thursday)

July 14, 1911 (Friday)

July 15, 1911 (Saturday)

July 16, 1911 (Sunday)

July 17, 1911 (Monday)

July 18, 1911 (Tuesday)

July 19, 1911 (Wednesday)

July 20, 1911 (Thursday)

July 21, 1911 (Friday)

July 22, 1911 (Saturday)

  • The U.S. Senate passed the Canadian Reciprocity Bill, 53-27.[52]
  • Voters in Texas defeated a referendum proposing the prohibition of the sale of liquor, 234,000 to 228,000.[50]
  • After returning to Persia with the help of the Russian Empire, former Shah Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar entered Astrabad (now Gorgan, Iran), where he was welcomed by residents eager to restore him to the throne.[53]

July 23, 1911 (Sunday)

July 24, 1911 (Monday)

July 25, 1911 (Tuesday)

  • The cause of action in the landmark case of MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. happened near Saratoga Springs, New York, when Donald MacPherson was severely injured when the wooden spokes of the left rear wheel of his Buick Model 10 automobile collapsed, throwing the car into a telephone pole and throwing him under the car's rear axle. MacPherson's suit led to an opinion from New York State's highest court that created product liability as a tortious action. Written by Benjamin Cardozo, later a justice of the United States Supreme Court, the reasoning of the 1916 decision was adopted by other states and "initiated the modern concept of consumer protection."[61]
  • Bobby Leach became the second person (after Annie Edson Taylor), and the first man, to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.[62] Leach, who survived a 17-story plunge over a waterfall, would later suffer a fatal injury from slipping on an orange peel.[63][64]

July 26, 1911 (Wednesday)

  • Nearly 2,500 delegates of all races and religions gathered in London for the First Universal Races Congress. A series of speakers at the three-day symposium promoted racial harmony, debunked differences between the “so-called whites” and “so-called colored” races, and called for ‘’the establishment of harmonious relations between the divisions of mankind.’’ Among those in attendance were Mohandas Gandhi, W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Addams, H.G. Wells, and dozens of prominent professors and politicians.[65]
  • Golden Gate Park of San Francisco was selected as the site for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915.[66]
  • U.S. President Taft signed the American-Canadian reciprocity bill at 3:09 pm, while the Canadian Parliament had dissolved without voting on the measure.[67]
  • The cruiser USS Des Moines arrived at Port-au-Prince to protect American citizens and businesses from an ongoing revolt in Haiti.[68]
  • The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of China was wrecked off the coast of Japan and put out of passenger service permanently.[69]
  • Dusé Mohamed Ali convened the first Universal Races Congress, held in London.[70]
  • At a fair in Plainfield, Illinois, "Professor" Harry Darnell, a balloonist whose act featured a performance on a trapeze, lost his footing and fell 700 feet to his death.[71]

July 27, 1911 (Thursday)

July 28, 1911 (Friday)

  • General Joseph Joffre was installed as the first Chief of the General Staff of the Army of France, a position that had been created to remedy the lack of a peacetime commander-in-chief of the Army.[74]
  • Paul Geidel, a 17-year old bellboy at the Iroquois Hotel in New York City, was arrested after killing an elderly stockbroker, William Henry Jackson, who was a guest.[75] Geidel would remain in prison for more than 68 years, finally being released at the age of 86 from the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York on May 7, 1980.[76] His incarceration remains the longest-ever time served by an American inmate.[77]
  • At the age of seven months, future French novelist Jean Genet was left by his mother at the Bureau d'Abandon de l'Hospice des Enfants-Assistes in Paris, to become a ward of the state, and was placed with a foster family the next day.[78]
  • Haitian troops defeated rebels in a battle at Les Cayes.[50]
  • Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier announced a plan of cooperation between Canada and the navies of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.[50]
  • The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London.[79]

July 29, 1911 (Saturday)

  • Parliament was dissolved in Canada after continued obstruction to the reciprocity bill with the United States, with an election set for September 21.[80] The Conservative Party, led by Robert Borden and opposing reciprocity, would win a majority in the next election.[citation needed]
  • A bounty of $100,000 (33,000 pounds) for the capture or killing of the ex-Shah was set by the Persian government.[81]
  • Born: Ján Cikker, Slovak classical composer; in Besztercebánya, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) (d. 1989).[citation needed]

July 30, 1911 (Sunday)

  • Author Henry James, who had been born in New York City, left the United States for the last time. James, who had alternated between Europe and North America as his residence, would become a British citizen prior to his death in 1916.[82]

July 31, 1911 (Monday)

  • General Motors went public, becoming the first automobile company to list its stock for sale on the New York Stock Exchange.[83]
  • Russia's ambassador to Persia demanded the resignation of Treasurer General W. Morgan Shuster, an American businessman who had been hired by the Iranian parliament to manage the nation's finances. Germany's minister made a similar demand the next day.[50]
  • Standard Oil announced its plans for breaking up the monopoly by November.[50]

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