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1911
 
     
Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss biplane on the US cruiser Pennsylvania, pointing the way to the future development of the aircraft carrier        
1911
 
     
Charles Wilson, using his cloud chamber to detect the passage of charged particles, obtains his first photographs of alpha and beta rays        
c. 1911
 
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The lost Inca city of Machu Picchu is reached by US archaeologist Hiram Bingham       
1911
 
    
Ernest Rutherford proposes the concept of the nucleus as a positively charged mass at the centre of an atom       
1911
 
     
Richard Strauss changes musical direction with his opera Der Rosenkavalier, once again with libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal        
1911
 
    
Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall       
1911
 
  
Nearly 150 New York garment workers die in a factory fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company     
1911
 
    
Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White       
1911
 
    
Al Jolson makes his first recording, That Haunting Melody, for the Victor label       
1911
 
    
D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock