WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1911
Find out what all happened February to August 1911

International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. (8. March 1911)

The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched. (31. May 1911)

The New York Public Library is dedicated. (23. May 1911)

The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution. (31. May 1911)

The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee. (21. August 1911)

The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. (7. July 1911)

Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity. (8. April 1911)

The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm. (29. March 1911)

George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (22. June 1911)

Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. (29. August 1911)

Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. (27. April 1911)

The Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded. (19. June 1911)

At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race. (30. May 1911)

During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg). (6. April 1911)

In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. (25. March 1911)

In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up. (15. May 1911)

Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". (24. July 1911)

Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded. (22. April 1911)

A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities. (4. July 1911)

The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. (18. February 1911)