WHAT HAPPENED IN 1911.
Look what happened the 1911.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton. (5. October 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)

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

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

The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War. (1. November 1911)

Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. (3. November 1911)

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

Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (11. November 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)