Timeline June 1911

Events in June 1911 5

• 1911 Predicts that gravity bends light A first, and wrong, calculation In Prague Einstein worked out how much a star's light should be deflected passing the Sun, getting a value half the correct one. An eclipse expedition set out to test it in 1914 but was interrupted by the war. The delay probably saved the theory from early refutation.
• 1911 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company founded The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) is incorporated on 16 June 1911 in Endicott, New York — a merger of four companies including the Tabulating Machine Company (founded by Herman Hollerith, inventor of the punch card tabulating machine used in the 1890 US Census) and the International Time Recording Company. CTR manufactures tabulating machines, time recorders, meat slicers and cheese slicers. It employs 1,300 people. Nobody at the founding could imagine it becoming the world's dominant computing company.
• 1911 – 1995 Juan Manuel Fangio El Maestro Won five World Championships in the 1950s with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes, Ferrari).
• 1911 – 2004 Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) Died 14 August 2004, aged 93 Milosz was a Polish poet, essayist, and diplomat who defected to the West during the Cold War. He won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of work grappling with totalitarianism and exile.
• 1911 – 2004 Czesław Miłosz Nobel Laureate Polish-American poet and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.