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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 - 1911 - 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Events
- January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia
- March 25: Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Lowell, Massachusetts
- December 14: Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
- End of Qing Dynasty in China.
- October 10: Birth of Republic of China.
- October 10 - Robert Laird Borden becomes Canada's eighth prime minister.
- 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica published.
- December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 1 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player
- February 11 - Alec Cairncross, chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
- March 16 - Josef Mengele
- May 8 - Robert Johnson, Blues guitarist and singer.
- May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children books writer
- May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President and Senator
- July 21 - Marshall McLuhan (author)
- October 14 - Le Duc Tho, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (+ 1990)
- September 9 - John Gorton, Australian Prime Minister
- December 3 - Nino Rota, composer
- December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.
- C. L. Moore - science fiction and fantasy writer.
- Tennessee Williams, playwright
Deaths
- February 11 - Albert von Rothschild, Austrian baron and banker.
- May 18 - Gustav Mahler, composer
Science
- Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments.
- Onnes discovers superconductivity.