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The following events occurred in February 1911: ==February 1, 1911 (Wednesday)== *Thirty people were killed in an explosion at Communipaw, New Jersey. Employees of the Central Railroad of New Jersey had been unloading cases of black powder from the freighter ''Katherine W'', when the accident happened at one minute past noon. The blast was felt 50 miles away, rocking office buildings and breaking windows in Manhattan, on the other side of the Hudson River. Eight officials of the railroad and the Du Pont Powder Company were indicted for the disaster.〔〔"EXPLODING DYNAMITE KILLS AT LEAST 24; HUNDREDS INJURED; ALL NEW YORK SHAKEN", ''New York Times'', February 2, 1911, p1〕 *The Governor of the Isfahan province of Persia (now Iran) was shot.〔"Record of Current Events", ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (March 1911), pp287–290〕〔 Mutemidi Khan and his nephew were murdered by a Russian national who had formerly been the chief of police in Isfahan.〔"Governor of Ispahan Shot", ''New York Times'', February 2, 1911, p1〕 *The British super-dreadnought, HMS ''Thunderer'', was launched.〔"New Super-Dreadnought", ''New York Times'', February 2, 1911〕 *Ziebach County, South Dakota, was established.〔Joseph Nathan Kane, ''The American Counties'' (4th Ed.), (The Scarecrow Press, 1983), p480〕 *Died: Admiral Charles Sperry, 62, commander of the Great White Fleet expedition of 1907-09 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「February 1911」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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