Timeline September 1911

Events in September 1911 8

• 1862 – 1911 Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911) Died 18 September 1911, aged 49 Stolypin served as Prime Minister of the Russian Empire, pursuing land reforms intended to create a class of independent peasant farmers. He was shot by an assassin at the Kiev Opera House on 14 September 1911 and died four days later. His death removed one of the last reform-minded figures from the tsarist government before the revolutions to come.
• 1911 – 1912 Italo-Turkish War -- Libya lost Italy invades Libya (then the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) in September 1911, seeking a colonial empire in North Africa. The Ottoman Empire, fighting its first major war since 1878, resists more effectively than expected -- Mustafa Kemal serves here as a young officer -- but cannot reinforce Libya across the Mediterranean. The Treaty of Lausanne (October 1912) cedes Libya and the Dodecanese islands to Italy. The loss of Libya is the last Ottoman territory in Africa. The war also demonstrates Ottoman military weakness to its Balkan neighbours, who immediately form the Balkan League and attack.
• 1911 – 1985 Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985) Died 10 March 1985, aged 73 Chernenko led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party from February 1984 until his death. His brief, ailing tenure was followed immediately by the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev. He died in Moscow on 10 March 1985.
• 1911 – 1996 Bill Monroe Mandolinist, singer, bandleader American musician who created bluegrass with his Blue Grass Boys, named after his home state of Kentucky.
• 1911 Bill Monroe born in Rosine, Kentucky Youngest of eight Takes up the mandolin because his brothers already play fiddle and guitar.
• 1911 First Transcontinental Flight Across the United States Cal Rodgers completes a coast-to-coast journey by airplane Aviator Cal Rodgers departed Sheepshead Bay, New York, on 17 September 1911 aiming to win a $50,000 prize for the first transcontinental flight. He landed in Pasadena, California, on 5 November 1911 after numerous crashes and repairs, arriving too late to claim the prize. His flight demonstrated that long-distance air travel across a continent was possible.
• 1911 – 1985 Konstantin Chernenko The last old-guard Soviet leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (September 24, 1911 – March 10, 1985) was the Soviet leader from February 1984 until his death in March 1985, just 13 months in office. Already seriously ill when he took power, his death prompted the party to choose the younger Gorbachev.
• 1911 Italo-Turkish War Begins Italy invades Ottoman Libya Italy declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 29 September 1911 and invaded Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in present-day Libya. The conflict introduced the first use of aircraft in warfare for reconnaissance and bombing. It ended in 1912 with the Ottomans ceding Libya to Italy.