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August 21, 1911:The Mona Lisa...
August 11, 1911: Britain's House of Lords approves limits on its power with the Parliament Act
...stolen from the Louvre

The following events occurred in August 1911:

August 1, 1911 (Tuesday)

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August 2, 1911 (Wednesday)

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August 3, 1911 (Thursday)

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August 4, 1911 (Friday)

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August 5, 1911 (Saturday)

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August 6, 1911 (Sunday)

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August 7, 1911 (Monday)

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August 8, 1911 (Tuesday)

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August 9, 1911 (Wednesday)

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August 10, 1911 (Thursday)

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  • By a margin of 131-114, the House of Lords passed the Parliament Act 1911, also called the "Veto Bill" because it allowed the United Kingdom House of Commons to put limits on the Lords' power. More than 300 eligible peers declined to participate.[21] However, the 88 Liberal peers were joined in voting in favor by 29 Tories and 13 of the 15 Anglican archbishops and bishops who cast votes. Conservative MP George Wyndham would later remark, "We were beaten by the bishops and the rats."[22]
  • Born: A.N. Sherwin-White, British historian; in Fifield, Oxfordshire (d. 1993).[citation needed]

August 11, 1911 (Friday)

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August 12, 1911 (Saturday)

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  • "For a period of one year from and after the date hereof, the landing in Canada shall be, and the same is prohibited, of any immigrants belonging to the Negro race", declared an Order in Council approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier on this date, "which race is deemed unsuitable to the climate and requirements of Canada." The racist order, made in response to hundreds of African-Americans moving to the Canadian prairies from Oklahoma, was never enforced, and repealed on October 5.[25]
  • Duke Kahanamoku broke three world swimming records in his very first meet, in Honolulu. Besides taking 1.6 seconds off of the 50 yard freestyle (to 24.2), he became the first person to swim 100 yards in under a minute, swimming in 55.4 seconds, 4.6 less than the AAU record.[26]
  • Henry Percival James, British Assistant Commissioner of Nigeria, was shot and killed along with five other people while traveling along the Forcados River on government business.[2][27]
  • John Muir set off from Brooklyn to begin a voyage of exploration of the Amazon River.[28]
  • Born: Cantinflas (stage name for Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes), Mexican film comedian; in Mexico City (d. 1993).[citation needed]
  • Died:

August 13, 1911 (Sunday)

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  • A lynch mob in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, burned an African-American to death after he was accused of murder. Three men were arrested on August 16. The night before, Zachariah Walker had shot and killed Edgar Rice, a private policeman, then injured himself in a suicide attempt while fleeing. While recovering in custody at the local hospital and restrained to a cot, Rice was seized by an angry mob. A fire was set and Walker, still chained to his hospital bed, was tossed into the flames.[29] Pennsylvania Governor John K. Tener would later say that the charter of Coatesville should be revoked, declaring "Had her officers or her citizens done their duty, the Commonwealth would not have been disgraced and her fair name dishonored.[30][31]
  • Matilde E. Moisant became the 3rd woman licensed airplane pilot in history. Unlike the first two, Raymonde de la Roche and Harriet Quimby, Moisant avoided death in a plane crash, and would live until 1964, to the age of 85.[32]
  • Born:

August 14, 1911 (Monday)

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"Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess"
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs, a 35-year-old salesman for a manufacturer of pencil sharpeners, submitted a partial manuscript for "Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess" to Argosy magazine. The title would be changed and the story lengthened to six installments in All-Story Magazine with the title Under the Moons of Mars, starting the literary career of Burroughs.[33]
  • Harry Atwood took off from St. Louis at 7:05 in the morning local time to begin a 1,265 mile trip to New York City. Making 20 stops, and logging 28½ hours flying time, he reached New York at 2:38 pm on August 25.[34]
Ethel Payne

August 15, 1911 (Tuesday)

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August 16, 1911 (Wednesday)

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August 17, 1911 (Thursday)

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August 18, 1911 (Friday)

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August 19, 1911 (Saturday)

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  • The victory of Emilio Estrada over General Flavio Alfaro in elections for President of Ecuador was certified by the Ecuadorian Congress.[48]
  • The Constitution of the Republic of Portugal was adopted by the National Assembly at 1:35 am.[49]
  • The United States Senate voted 53-8 in favor of an amendment to the statehood bill for Arizona and New Mexico, conditioning Arizona's admission into the union on its revocation of a provision to recall elected judges.[50]
  • A mob of 200 men in Wales attacked and looted Jewish-owned shops at Tredegar. On August 21, rioting spread to Ebbw Vale and Rhymney, and by August 22 across the rest of Wales.[51]

August 20, 1911 (Sunday)

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  • The New York Times sent the first round-the-world cable message, receiving the text back 16+12 minutes after it was sent.[52]
  • Lincoln Beachey broke the world altitude record, ascending to a height of 11,642 feet, more than 2 miles and more than 3+12 km.[53]
  • Born: Karl Frenzel, German Nazi war criminal who commanded the Sobibor extermination camp; in Zehdenick (died of natural causes, 1996).[citation needed]

August 21, 1911 (Monday)

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  • The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum while the museum was closed for cleaning.[54] Witnesses reported that a tall stout individual had been carrying what appeared to be a large panel covered with a horse blanket, then caught the Paris to Bordeaux express at 7:47 am as it was pulling out of the Quai d'Orsay station.[55] Two years later, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian patriot who claimed that he stole the painting to return it to the homeland of Leonardo da Vinci, was arrested in Florence and the painting was recovered.[56]
  • At 3:08 pm, President Taft signed the joint resolution offering American statehood to Arizona and New Mexico.[57]
  • Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt announced that he would not consent to use of his name as a possible candidate in 1912.[58]
  • Sir James Whitney, the Premier of Ontario, announced that he opposed the reciprocity bill with the United States because he believed that it would lead to annexation.[59]
  • Born: Anthony Boucher, mystery and science fiction author, as William Anthony White in Oakland, California (d. 1968).[citation needed]
  • Died: William Rotch Wister, 84, "the father of American cricket". Wister had founded the Philadelphia Cricket Club after watching English mill workers playing the game in 1842.[citation needed]

August 22, 1911 (Tuesday)

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  • The former Shah of Persia was routed at Savadkuh with the loss of 300 of his men.[59]
  • In Britain, the Official Secrets Act 1911 was given royal assent, providing heavy penalties for spying, "wrongful communication of information," "harbouring spies," and "attempts to commit offence or incitement to commit offence."[60]

August 23, 1911 (Wednesday)

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August 24, 1911 (Thursday)

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  • Led by the organization Tung Chi Huei, Chinese citizens living in Chengdu walked off of their jobs in protest over the Imperial Government's agreement with foreign nations to build a railroad through the Sichuan Province, after businesses there had raised $20,000,000 to build it themselves. "Few people in this country realized when the brief telegrams reported the occurrence of a strike," wrote an American author later, "that the beginning of the end of the Manchu Dynasty had arrived." The Xinhai Revolution would begin six weeks later.[63]
  • Manuel de Arriaga, Procurator General of Portugal was elected the first President of Portugal, receiving 121 votes from the Constituent Assembly. In second place was Foreign Minister Bernardo Machado, with 86 votes. Arriaga had been a professor at Columbia University and had taught English to the late King Carlos of Portugal.[64]
  • The first shipment of coal was made from Harlan County, Kentucky, the beginning of its transformation into a major coal producer.[65] The influx of miners and their families raised the population from 11,000 to 31,500 in ten years, and to 75,000 by 1940, before declining to 29,000 by 2011.[citation needed]
  • Born: Frederick E. Nolting Jr., U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (1961–1963); in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1989).[citation needed]

August 25, 1911 (Friday)

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August 26, 1911 (Saturday)

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August 27, 1911 (Sunday)

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August 28, 1911 (Monday)

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August 29, 1911 (Tuesday)

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August 30, 1911 (Wednesday)

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August 31, 1911 (Thursday)

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