WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1911
Find out what all happened May to 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)

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)

IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. (16. June 1911)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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