Timeline May 1911

Events in May 1911 10

• 1836 – 1911 W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) Died 29 May 1911, aged 74 Gilbert was an English dramatist and librettist who, with composer Arthur Sullivan, created the enormously popular Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas including H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado. He drowned while rescuing a swimmer in a lake on his estate. His witty lyrics and libretti remained influential on musical theater.
• 1860 – 1911 Gustav Mahler Late Romantic symphonist Austrian composer and conductor whose vast symphonies — especially the 5th, 9th and Das Lied von der Erde — pushed the Romantic symphony to its limits.
• 1911 Rutherford's Nuclear Model of the Atom Physicist proposes a dense atomic nucleus Ernest Rutherford published his analysis of alpha particle scattering experiments in May 1911, proposing that atoms consist of a tiny, dense, positively charged nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons. The model overturned J. J. Thomson's earlier "plum pudding" theory. It became the foundation of modern nuclear physics.
• 1911 Robert Johnson born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi Delta Grows up between Memphis and the Delta plantations.
• 1911 Standard Oil Antitrust Breakup US Supreme Court orders the dissolution of Standard Oil The US Supreme Court ruled on 15 May 1911 that Standard Oil violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and ordered it broken into 34 independent companies. The decision reshaped American corporate law and ended John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly. Several successor firms later became ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Marathon.
• 1911 – 1998 Maureen O'Sullivan (1911-1998) Irish actress, Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan and mother of Mia Farrow.
• 1911 Maureen O'Sullivan born in Boyle Maureen O'Sullivan is born in Boyle.
• 1911 Resignation of Porfirio Diaz Mexican dictator steps down after decades in power Facing military defeats and the advance of Francisco Madero's revolutionary forces, President Porfirio Diaz resigned on 25 May 1911 after ruling Mexico for over three decades. He went into exile in France. His departure opened a new, turbulent phase of the Mexican Revolution.
• 1911 – 1978 Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) Died 13 January 1978, aged 66 Humphrey served as US Vice President under Lyndon Johnson and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1968, losing narrowly to Richard Nixon. He died of bladder cancer shortly after returning to the Senate.
• 1911 – 1993 Vincent Price (1911-1993) Died 25 October 1993, aged 82 Vincent Price was an American actor renowned for his distinctive voice and roles in horror films such as "House of Wax" and "The Fly." He also narrated the spoken-word segment of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." He died of lung cancer in Los Angeles.