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Events from the year 1911 in the United Kingdom.

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3 January - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End.
31 May - Launching of the ocean liner RMS Titanic.^[1]
14 June - Liverpool General Transport Strike begins.
22 June
- Coronation of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey, London.
- the clock towers on the Royal Liver Building are started at the same moment as George V's coronation.^[1]
Festival of Empire held at The Crystal Palace, London to celebrate the coronation.
13 July - The future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
9 August - Raunds, Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C), the highest UK temperature until 1990.
10 August - British MPs vote to receive salaries for the first time.^[1]
17 August - During a railway strike in Llanelli, two men are shot dead by police.
18 August - Official Secrets Act passed.^[2]
20 September - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton.
4 October - First electric escalators introduced , at Earl's Court tube station.^[2]
6 October - The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton.

22 January - Mary Hayley Bell, actress and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (d 2005)
19 February - Merle Oberon, actress (died 1979)
15 March - Ursula Vaughan Williams, author
27 March - Erich Heller, philosopher (died 1990)
3 April - Michael Woodruff, pioneering transplant surgeon (died 2001)
23 April - Ronald Neame, film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
10 June - Terence Rattigan, playwright (died 1977)
15 June - W.V. Awdry, children's writer (died 1997)
9 July - Mervyn Peake, writer and illustrator (died 1968)
14 July - Terry-Thomas, actor (died 1990)
17 July - Ted Anderson, footballer (died 1979)
27 August - Kay Walsh, actress (died 2005)
19 September - William Golding, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
3 October - Michael Hordern, actor (died 1995)
10 October - Clare Hollingworth, journalist
12 November - Chad Varah, priest and humanitarian (died 2007)
11 December - Val Guest, film director (died 2006)
27 December - Anna Russell, comedian and singer (died 2006)

^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 345–346. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.