What Happened on November 1, 1911

Historical Events

The first aerial bomb is dropped by an Italian pilot on Turkish troops in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War

Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), born in Madison, Wisconsin (d. 1992)
Henri Troyat, Russian-French author and historian, born in Moscow (d. 2007)
Sidney Wood Jr, American tennis player (Wimbledon 1931), born in Black Rock, Connecticut (d. 2009)