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On This Day In Baseball History: October 11, 1911
The Italian expeditionary force arrived at Tripoli.
Mare Island, Vallejo, California, October 11, 1911:
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The Austrian clerico-fascist Heimwehr was dissolved and folded into the far right Vaterländische Front which was governing Austria.
The Italian government adopted Mussolini's recommendations for national defense, including increasing the work week from 40 to 60 hours.
The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was created in Nazi Germany.
Women were allowed to be employed in munitions factories in the UK for the first time since World War One.
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Mussolini made himself head of the state's national militia, the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, the Blackshirts.
It was a Saturday.
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The USSR issued an ultimatum to Portugal, Italy and Germany that unless they stopped aiding the Spanish Nationalist in the ongoing civil war, the USSR would take an active involvement.
On the same day, German armored troops arrived in Spain as trainers with their focus being on tanks and antitank guns.
José Antonio Aguirre became the 1st President of the Basque Country, an autonomous region in the Spanish Republic. He'd muster local forces to fight on the Republican side, and accordingly went into exile for the rest of life when the Nationalist won the civil war. He died in 1960 of a heart attack at age 56 and, as a Catholic, was given a funeral Mass.
Agrarian Party member, and Lutheran Pietist, Kyösti Kallio became Prime Minister of Finland.
The Dodgers fired Casey Stengel.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played the longest scoreless tie in Major League Baseball history. Nineteen innings in 4 hours, 40 minutes,
The game was called because of darkness.
The United States turned over $1,121,400,000 worth of surplus U.S. Army property to the Philippines.
Ida Stover Eisenhower, mother of Dwight Eisenhower, Milton S. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, Arthur Bradford Eisenhower, Paul Dawson Eisenhower, Roy Jacob Eisenhower, and Earl D. Eisenhower. died at age 84.
Dwight was, of course, Commander of SHAEF in World War Two, and later President of the United States. The military had actually been a default career for him, and not his first intention. Milton S. Eisenhower was an accomplished academic. Edgar was a lawyer. Earl an engineer and Kansas legislator.
Ida was a runaway. Family deaths and circumstances had left her in the care of an aunt and uncle who did not believe in female education, so she took off in order to go to high school. Her husband, David, was an engineer by training, but his personality left him impoverished and withdrawn.
She was a pacifist.
Blessed Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio was brutally murdered by Yugoslavian Popular Guards for being a Catholic Priest.
He was ethnically Italian, although the region of Italy he was born in was part of the Austro Hungarian Empire at the time of his birth. The region he was killed in was part of Italy at the time, but became part of Yugoslavia, and is now part of Croatia.
Johnny Allen Hendrix was renamed by his father to James Marshall Hendrix.
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A bombing attempt against Mussolini by Italian anarchist Gino Lucetti failed.
He escaped imprisonment in 1943 only to die in a German air raid that same year.
Mussolini survived six known assassination attempts. Far fewer than Hitler, but still quite a few. I note that as the assertion that Donald Trump survived two such attempts and therefore is favored by God deserves some reflection, accordingly. Granted, I'm not suggesting that assassination is in any way warranted. I wouldn't have said that about Mussolini either. Murder is not sanctioned by God.
I'd also note that anarchist were big into assassination, although its difficult to see how that advanced their goals, assuming that their goal was not to be hated.
11 year old Romulus Augustulus, the last Emperor or the Western Roman Empire and a mere figurehead, was forced to advocate by Flavius Odoacer, a German commander of the Roman Guard who declared himself King of Italy and a vassal of the Eastern Roman Emperor.
The event is marked as the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Early Middle Ages.
Romulus went on to live in exile with a pension and seems to have lived to at least 60 years of age. He was a Catholic (orthodox) Christian and may have founded a monastery while in exile.*
Odoacer, while regarding himself as a vassal of Constantinople, had a falling out with with the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno who in turn sent Theodoric the Great to depose him, resulting in a war which cost Odoacer his life in 493. Theodoric did not stop there, but killed many of Odoacer's followers, including his wife Sunigilda, who was stoned to death, and his brother Onoulphus. In spite of his short reign and violent death, he's regarded as an important post Empire figure. Odoacer was an Arian Chrisitan.
Theodoric, an Ostrogoth, who became king, was a hugely significant figure, expanding his reign over a fair amount of what had been the Western Roman Empire. He was an Arian Christian whose rule mimicked forms adopted from Constantinople. He was King of Italy, the Ostrogoths, and the Visigoths.
Theodoric was a patron of the orthodox Catholic philosopher Boethius for quite some time, but as his rule progressed, Theodoric began to turn from neutral in the dispute between orthodoxy and Arianism and he had Boethius arrested and ultimately executed in 524.
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*This era was marked by a major conflict between orthodox Christianity and Arianism. To clarify things here, the schism between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church was very much in the future so the use of orthodoxy here does not mean to imply the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Calles rejected foreign mediation which had been offered in hopes of resolving the crises brought about by the Calles Law.
Spain, led by the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, and Italy, led by dictator Benito Mussolini, signed a Treaty of Friendship.
The first British Grand Prix was held.
It was a Saturday.
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The Liga Nacional Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa commenced an uprising in Mexico, although appreciating it as such was probably not evident to anyone at the time. 400 armed faithful barricaded themselves in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Fighting continued until they ran out of ammunition. 18 people were killed and 40 wounded.
On this day, the Diocese of San Antonio was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese. It'd become a place of refuge for fleeing faithful and clergy from Mexico.
Italy banned parades, ceremonies and public demonstrations that were not authorized as "effectively useful".
London's first traffic lights went into operation.
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The fascist government of Italy prevented 2,000 Italian pilgrims from visiting the church of Madonna del Sasso in Locarno, Switzerland, on the basis that Italians should spend their money in Italy.
It was the first time the pilgrimage had been disrupted in 400 years.
Sounds like something the Orange Mussolini would do today.
The Convention and Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports providing freedom of access to maritime ports without regard to a ship's nationality or maritime flag, went into effect. Sounds like something the Orange Mussolini would oppose today.
Al Capone was freed after having spent a night in jail after being arrested on charges arising from the April 27 murder of assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin and two friends, James J. Doherty, and Thomas "Red" Duffy. The new assistant State's Attorney, George E. Gorman, stated that evidence was insufficient for the charge.
Still living Polish literary and anti communist figure, after having been a communist, Jacek Bocheński was born in Lwow, which is now in Ukraine.
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy took a boy who had just been hit by a train into his auto and rushed the boy to the hospital. The poor boy later died.
Yes, it's not a big thing, but then again, it is.
Major General Littleton Waller, USMC, died at age 69.
Waller had a long career with a lot of combat action. His career survived his being being court-martialed for the disastrous Samar expedition in the Philippine Insurrection and the summary execution of 11 Filipino civilian porters at Lanang for mutiny in 1902. He'd retired in 1920.
Ethel Hays repeated a common myth.
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Italian born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII, the first American citizen to receive the same.
She was the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She is the Patron Saint of Immigrants. She founded 67 orphanages, schools and hospitals throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean region, and in Europe during her lifetime.
The Presbyterian Church and the Episcopal Church, at that time probably the wealthiest church in the United States and the Church of the wealthy to some extent, announced they would merge, an odd announcement given their real theological differences.
Not too surprisingly, the merger did not in fact occur.
U.S. Navy Ensign Jimmy Carter married Rosalynn Smith in Plains, Georgia. They'd be married for 75 years.
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The Allied powers agreed to withdraw their troops from Italy and Bulgaria.
Fred M. Vinson was confirmed Chief Justice of the United States.
Wanrong (婉容), wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China, died a prisoner of the Chinese Communist from malnutrition and opium withdrawal. Her fate was unknown to the outside world at the time.
As the Chinese Imperial household was polygamist, her husband remained married in spite of her death, of which he was unaware. Two of his prior spouses had divorced, but he remained married at the time to Li Yuqin, who was also a prisoner and would divorce the former emperor, Puyi (溥儀) in 1957, although she commenced visiting him in 1955. Puyi would remarry in 1962.
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Italians abolished the Italian monarchy and elected seats to the Constituent Assembly in a nationwide vote, the same being the first in which women were allowed to vote.
The Christian Democracy party won 207 out of 556 seats and formed a coalition government with the Socialists (115) and Communist (104) parties. The CD would lead successive Italian governments until 1981. The party was dissolved in 1994 with the successor party being the Italian People's Party ( Partito Popolare Italiano)
In French parliamentary elections, the French Communist Party lost its plurality (from 159 to 153), the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) gained 16 seats (from 150 to 166) and the Socialist Party dropped from 146 to 128. No one party had a majority.
Carrie Ingalls of her sister Laura's Little House on the Prairie fame died.
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Violet Gibson shot Benito Mussolini, but only grazed his nose. The attack seems to have been a lone wolf type event with Gibson not being mentally well.
On the same day, although unrelated, three staffers of anti-Fascist newspapers were murdered in the country and journalist Giovanni Amendola died from injuries sustained nearly a year earlier.
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The Italian Senate banned all non-Fascist labor unions and declared all strikes and lockouts to be unlawful, with compulsory arbitration before special labor magistrates to resolve any disagreements between labor and industry. Premier Benito Mussolini declared that the bill was "the most courageous, most audacious, most radical and most revolutionary reform yet proposed by the Fascist government in its 40 months of office.
Sort of like the Wyoming Freedom Caucus dominated 2026 legislature banning union dues from being automatically deducted from state employee paychecks.
Well, to some people, freedom's just another name for everything you'll lose.
Éamon de Valera resigned as the leader of Sinn Féin after the Ard Fheis general assembly failed to approve, by five votes (218 to 223) his motion for the party to have representation in both the Oireachtas (the bicameral parliament of the Irish Free State) and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
The Council of the League of Nations voted to approve the award of most of the former Ottoman Empire's Mosul province, to the British Mandate of Iraq and to extend the British mandate an additional 25 years.
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