world, was conducted by the British Indian Army from Aurangabad. January 17, 1911 (Tuesday) Two shots were fired at France's Prime Minister Aristide Briand in the French Champber of Deputies. Briand was unharmed, but Messr. Mirmam, Director of Public Relief, was injured. The German submarine U-3 sank in the North Atlantic, but 27 of its 30 men were saved. According to reports, the crew "donned the special diving helmets and suits and were shot to the surface by means of the submerged torpedo tubes". The U.S. Navy battleship , assigned to carry the body of Anibal Cruz, the Chilean Minister to the United States, back to Chile, was sailing from Cuba to Hampton Roads when a boiler accident killed nine sailors. Haiti and Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) signed a peace agreement, with both sides withdrawing troops from their common border. Recommendations by the National Monetary Commission for a "Reserve Association of America" with 15 districts were made public by a spokesman for U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. The plan was implemented, with changes, as the Federal Reserve System. Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as the 34th Governor of New Jersey. Slightly more than two years later, Wilson, who had never held a political post before becoming governor, would become the 28th President of the United States. The play The Scarecrow, by Percy MacKaye, was first performed. Glenn Curtiss founded the first military flying school in the United States, at Rockwell Field on San Diego's North Island. Born: George Stigler, American economist, 1982 Nobel Prize in Economics laureate; in Renton, Washington (d. 1991) Died: Sir Francis Galton, 88, English explorer and biologist January 18, 1911 (Wednesday) Eugene Burton Ely became the first person to land an airplane on a ship, bringing his Curtiss biplane down on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania, anchored thirteen miles out to sea from an airfield in San Francisco. A 127-foot-long wooden platform had been built on the Pennsylvania, and 22 ropes strung across it. Ely's plane had three hooks on the undercarriage, to catch the ropes as the plane landed. Captain Charles F. Pond of the Pennsylvania praised the flight as "The most important landing of a bird since the dove flew back to the ark". January 19, 1911 (Thursday) In Philadelphia, Dr. Edward Martin performed the first cordotomy on a human being for the relief of intractable pain, with the assistance of neurologist