WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1911
Find out what all happened March to October 1911

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

First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War. (23. October 1911)

Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. (21. May 1911)

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

An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship. (25. September 1911)

Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House. (18. September 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)

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

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)

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

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

An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire (9. October 1911)

The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China. (10. October 1911)

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

Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. (1. July 1911)

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

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

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