Some amazing video restoration work here. Make the video full screen with volume up to get the full effect.
In the year 1911:
In the year 1911:
- The Great War, "the war to end all wars" would not begin for another three years
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to the New York State Senate
- Ronald Reagan was born in an apartment above a local bank building in Tampico, Illinois
- President William H. Taft dedicated the brand new New York Public Library
- Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf
- The Lincoln Memorial Commission was established to find an ideal site for the proposed Lincoln Memorial
- MOST IMPORTANT: US Army adopted a new service pistol, the M1911, designed by John Browning
