WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1911
Find out what all happened April to September 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 Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee. (21. August 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)

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

The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books. (9. May 1911)

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

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

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

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

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

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

French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. (7. September 1911)

IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. (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)

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)

Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. (29. September 1911)

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

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

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

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