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January 3, 1911
On January 3, 1911, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
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Featured · January 3, 1911
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
The 1911 Kebin earthquake, or Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on 3 January. 0, it killed 452 people, destroyed more than 770 buildings in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and resulted in 125 miles (201 km) of surface faulting in the valleys of Chon-Kemin, Chilik and Chon-Aksu.
Around 1911
The year in brief
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th…
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On January 3, 1911
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1911 A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan. Earthquake in Kazakhstan on 3 January 1911
The 1911 Kebin earthquake, or Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on 3 January. 0, it killed 452 people, destroyed more than 770 buildings in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and resulted in 125 miles (201 km) of surface faulting in the valleys of Chon-Kemin, Chilik and Chon-Aksu.
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1911 A gun battle in the East End of London leaves two dead. It sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill. 1911 gunfight in the East End of London
The siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries. The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants which resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, a key member of the Latvian gang.
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Other moments from 1911
- April 2 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
- April 27 The Second Canton Uprising takes place in Guangzhou, Qing China, but is suppressed.
- April 29 Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
- April 6 During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
- August 1 Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
- August 21 The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
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