WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1911
Find out what all happened February to September 1911

Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston (25. September 1911)

Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". (24. July 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 New York Public Library is dedicated. (23. May 1911)

The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship. (1. September 1911)

White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke. (20. September 1911)

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

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

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

United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death. (14. August 1911)

The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census. (2. April 1911)

Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. (19. May 1911)

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

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

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

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)

A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn. (16. June 1911)

Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat. (14. July 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)