WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1911
Find out what all happened May to November 1911

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor-General of Canada of royal descent. (13. October 1911)

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

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

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

After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica. (5. November 1911)

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

The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain. (19. November 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)

Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. (3. November 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)

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)

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

Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House. (18. September 1911)

IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. (16. June 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)

Orville Wright, remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. (24. October 1911)

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an American historically black college or university, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. (17. November 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)