Timeline October 1911

Events in October 1911 3

• 1847 – 1911 Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) Died 29 October 1911, aged 64 Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher who built the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York World into major papers and pioneered sensational "yellow journalism." His will endowed the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prizes. He died aboard his yacht off Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1911 Wuchang Uprising Mutiny sparks the Xinhai Revolution against the Qing dynasty Republican soldiers in the New Army mutinied in Wuchang, Hubei province, on 10 October 1911. The uprising triggered a nationwide revolt that ended over two thousand years of imperial rule in China. Within months provincial assemblies declared independence from the Qing court.
• 1911 The first Solvay Conference Brussels, and the physics establishment The inaugural Solvay meeting on radiation and quanta gathered Planck, Poincare, Rutherford, Curie and a 32-year-old Einstein, the youngest present. He found the discussions inconclusive but the contacts invaluable. Solvay became the recurring stage for his later duels with Bohr.