The following events occurred in January 1911: January 1, 1911 (Sunday) The Australian Capital Territory officially came into existence, and the Northern Territory was politically separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control. General Juan Jose Estrada was inaugurated s the new President of Nicaragua The Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, was created, after being separated from the Parish of St. Landry. Under 38 U.S.C. 2301, a medal for Mexican Border Service could be awarded for any U.S. soldier who served between January 1, 1911, and April 5, 1917. Stamps were first issued for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, now the nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu. The magazine Barton's Boys' Life, which would later become Boys' Life and the official Boy Scouts of America magazine, was first published. Toccoa Falls College was created in Toccoa, Georgia, after being relocated from North Carolina, where it had been the Golden Valley Institute. Born: Roman Totenberg, Polish-born American violinist; in Lodz (d. 2012) Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and inductee into the National Baseball Hall of Fame; in Manhattan (d. 1986) January 2, 1911 (Monday) The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America was established at 200 Fifth Avenue in New York, with seven employees. Manuel Bonilla declared his intention to return to his former post as President of Honduras after he and his forces landed on that nation's Atlantic coast, near Puerto Cortez. From the capital at Tegucigalpa, President Miguel R. Dávila cabled instructions to seek American aid in resisting the attack. Born: Ray R. Myers, "the world famous armless musician", in Lancaster, PA (d. 1986) January 3, 1911 (Tuesday) An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude struck near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing at least 450 people. In the Siege of Sidney Street in London's East End, 1,500 members of the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards fought a gunbattle with a trio of anarchists who had killed three police officers earlier. When the building caught fire, two of the men burned to death. Nearly 13 years after its destruction in Havana Harbor, the battleship USS Maine was dredged to remove the remains of the sailors on board. The United States Postal Savings System, with 48 branches, one for each of the 46 states plus the territories of Arizona and New Mexico, formally began business. A truce was made between the two rival tongs of New York's Chinatown, with the Hip Sing