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The following events occurred in October 1911:

October 27, 1911: Yuan Shikai sent to stop rebellion in China
October 23, 1911: Experimental cable entertainment and news service launched in United States
Justice John Marshall Harlan dies at 78
October 29, 1911: Newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer dies at 64

October 1, 1911 (Sunday)

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October 2, 1911 (Monday)

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October 3, 1911 (Tuesday)

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October 4, 1911 (Wednesday)

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  • The first viable escalator, designed by Charles Seeberger, began operation at the Earl's Court Underground Station in London.[11][12]
  • The first railway from Canton (Guangzhou to Hong Kong) was put into service.[13]
  • Sir Almroth Wright, who had developed a vaccine against typhoid fever, began inoculation of 50,000 gold miners with an anti-pneumonia vaccine; by 1915, discovered to be a failure because of the various forms of pneumococci—at least 90 identified. Some of his colleagues referred to him as "Sir Almost Right."[14]
  • Iran's Parliament, the Majlis, instructed Treasurer W. Morgan Shuster to confiscate the property of Malek Mansur Mirza, younger brother of the former Shah, as punishment for supporting the recent counter-revolution. On October 9, when treasury officials were sent to inventory the property, they were blocked by Russian troops on order of the Russian consul-general, Ivan Pokhitonov, prompting a standoff between Russian and Persian troops.[15]
  • The Qing dynasty rulers of China adopted the musical composition "Cup of Solid Gold" (Gǒng Jīn'ōu) as the Empire's first official national anthem.[16] Six days later, however, the Wuchang Uprising took place and the anthem was never publicly performed.[citation needed]
  • Died: Dr. Joseph Bell, 74, Scottish surgeon who was Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.[17]

October 5, 1911 (Thursday)

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October 6, 1911 (Friday)

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October 7, 1911 (Saturday)

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October 8, 1911 (Sunday)

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  • Spanish troops defeated hostile tribesmen in Morocco but sustained heavy losses. The Moors killed 36 Spaniards and wounded another 109 in a battle at the Kert River.[24]
  • After seizing Tripoli from the Ottoman Empire, the Italian occupational government declared that slavery there was outlawed. Reportedly, Tripoli was "the only remaining port on the coast of Africa where slavery still prevailed."[25]

October 9, 1911 (Monday)

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October 10, 1911 (Tuesday)

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  • The Wuchang Uprising began when a group of Chinese revolutionaries in the city of Wuchang were working in their hideout, loading rifle shells, when one of them let a cigarette ash fall into gunpowder. The resulting explosion brought an investigation by the police, who discovered lists of the group's members, which included members of the Imperial Army. Faced with certain arrest and probable execution, the rebels began the insurrection ahead of schedule.[28]
  • Robert L. Borden was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Canada, along with the rest of his cabinet, as the last official act of outgoing Governor-General Earl Grey.[29]
  • Voters in California approved initiatives, referendums and recall by overwhelming majorities, and women's suffrage by a slight majority. Initiatives were approved 168,744 to 52,093; recall by 178,115 to 53,755.[30] California was the 10th state to enact initiative and referendum — South Dakota had been the first, in 1898.[citation needed]
  • Using captured lists of revolutionaries, Hubei Province Governor-General Jui-ch'eng (Rui Cheng) sent military police to arrest and execute three conspirators within the Chinese army. Sergeant Hsing Ping-k'un (Xiong Bingkun) of the 8th Engineering Battalion of the 8th Regiment, though not on the list, was confronted by officers and fired the first shots, persuading his men to mutiny and seizing the Chuwangtai Arsenal. General Li Yuanhong then took charge of the brigade. The Governor-General fled, and the local Manchu commander, Zhang Biao, ordered his troops to retreat, leaving the mutineers in control of a complete arsenal and the provincial treasury, and the revolution spread to other provinces.[31][32]

October 11, 1911 (Wednesday)

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October 12, 1911 (Thursday)

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October 13, 1911 (Friday)

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October 14, 1911 (Saturday)

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October 15, 1911 (Sunday)

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October 16, 1911 (Monday)

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October 17, 1911 (Tuesday)

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  • Two months after the death of his father, 25-year-old Osman Ali Khan ascended the throne of the Nizam of Hyderabad.[53]
  • A mob in Hangkow attacked soldiers landed there by German warships.[54]
  • Results of the 1911 Census revealed Canada's population to be 7,081,869 (with 70,000 left of four uncounted districts), an increase of more than one-third since the 1901 Census (5,371,315), but a million people less than had been expected.[55]

October 18, 1911 (Wednesday)

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October 19, 1911 (Thursday)

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October 20, 1911 (Friday)

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October 21, 1911 (Saturday)

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  • Archduke Charles, second in succession to the Austrian-Hungarian throne (after his uncle, Franz Ferdinand), married Zita of Bourbon-Parma at the Castle at Shwarzau, becoming next in line after Franz Ferdinand renounced the throne.[62][63]
  • Twelve-year-old Martha Frazier, who worked as a lion tamer at her family's traveling circus, was fatally injured by a lion before thousands of spectators at a performance in Utica, Mississippi. She died two days later.[64]
  • The Imperial government of China contracted to purchase $15,000,000 worth of supplies from the United States Navy in order to fight the revolution there, although the government would fall before the aid could be provided.[65][66]

October 22, 1911 (Sunday)

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  • The Chinese National Assembly was opened, as scheduled, for its second session in Beijing, as the revolution continued in Southern China.[67]
  • The Greek steamer Georgios wrecked at the entrance of Gironde estuary at Rochefort, France, drowning 15 members of its crew.[68]

October 23, 1911 (Monday)

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  • Captain Carlo Piazza of the Italian Army became the first person to perform aerial reconnaissance in wartime, taking off from Tripoli at 6:19 a.m., for reconnaissance, then flying to ‘Aziziya to observe the maneuvers of Turkish troops in Libya. He returned at 7:20 a.m. with his report.[69][70]
  • In the Battle of Al-Hani, outside of Tripoli, more than 300 Italian soldiers were killed as the Turkish and Arabian troops retook the city. The Italians, under General Caneva, retaliated with atrocities against the Arab population, killing 4,000 men, women and children over the next three days. The Libyan triumph is commemorated by a monument at the site.[66][71][72]
  • Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna traded posts within the British cabinet, with Churchill becoming the First Lord of the Admiralty, and Mr. McKenna Home Secretary.[73][74]
  • Karadorde, the first feature film produced in Yugoslavia, had its première in Belgrade. Directed by Svetozar Botorić, the motion picture about the 1804 uprising led by Karađorđe Petrović against the Turks, was eventually sent to the Austro-Hungarian film archive and then misplaced for 90 years. It would be rediscovered in 2003, and the restored version was a hit for a new generation.[75]
  • In an early form of cable entertainment that predated radio, The Telephone Herald, a service inspired by the Hungarian Telefon Hirmondo, made its debut in Newark, New Jersey. For a monthly fee, households subscribing to the service could listen to a schedule of programming over their telephones.[76][77][78]
  • Died: William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, 58, Deputy Speaker of the British House of Lords and one time Colonial Governor of New Zealand (1889–1892).[citation needed]

October 24, 1911 (Tuesday)

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October 25, 1911 (Wednesday)

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  • General Feng Sen, newly appointed as the Military Governor of Canton (now Guangzhou) was assassinated upon his arrival. General Feng and his wife had arrived on a steamboat and were walking across the gangplank, when a bomb was thrown from a rooftop overlooking the wharf.[82]
  • Born: Mikhail Yangel, Soviet missile designer (d. 1971).[citation needed]

October 26, 1911 (Thursday)

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October 27, 1911 (Friday)

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  • Yuan Shikai was named Commander in Chief of China's armed forces, and attacked Hankow, while sending his negotiator Liu Ch'eng-en to talk to revolutionary leader Li Yuan-hung (October 29).[89][90][91]
  • A disgruntled employee of the Selig Studios shot and killed director Francis Boggs, and wounded film mogul William Selig, at the studio headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of Edendale. Boggs, 41, had persuaded Selig to make the studio the first of many to locate in the Los Angeles area, prior to Hollywood becoming the center of entertainment production.[92]
  • The Sichuan Province declared its independence from China.[93]
  • Shaker Heights, Ohio was incorporated as Shaker Village as a planned community created by Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen[94]
  • Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was outraged after learning that his protege, President Taft, had directed the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the United States Steel Company. The antitrust suit alleged, in part, that as President, Roosevelt had been misled into allowing U.S. Steel to acquire Tennessee Coal and Iron in 1907. The timing of the suit, a little more than a year before the presidential election, was later described as "a disastrous political error," leading Roosevelt to run against President Taft.[95]
  • Born: Sant Fateh Singh, Sikh religious and political leader (d. 1972).[citation needed]

October 28, 1911 (Saturday)

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  • At the first legislative session of the Tsu-Cheng Yuan, China's new National Assembly, the delegates demanded three reforms: a cabinet of ministers without Manchu nobility; an amnesty for persons who committed political offenses; and a permanent constitution.[42]
  • After 40 years in which there had been only one Roman Catholic Cardinal for the entire United States, Pope Pius X announced the appointment of three more. Archbishop John Murphy Farley of New York, Archbishop William Henry O'Connell of Boston, and Apostolic Delegate Diomede Falconio, who had become a naturalized citizen, joined Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore.[96]

October 29, 1911 (Sunday)

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October 30, 1911 (Monday)

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  • In the name of the five-year-old Emperor, Pu Yi, China's Imperial government acknowledged errors and promised quick and complete reforms in two edicts. The National Assembly was authorized to draft a constitution, which it did within four days.[97][98]
  • The First Solvay Conference begins in Brussels, as an invite-only council chaired by Hendrik Lorentz. This was the first international conference in the history of modern science, and would spark the creation of the regular, open Solvay Conferences in 1912.[99]

October 31, 1911 (Tuesday)

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