WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1911
Find out what all happened January to August 1911

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

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

Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University. (5. January 1911)

The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees. (12. January 1911)

Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. (18. January 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)

In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. (25. March 1911)

The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution. (31. May 1911)

Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. (14. January 1911)

The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. (18. February 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)

The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. (30. January 1911)

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan. (3. January 1911)

International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. (8. March 1911)

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

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

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

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

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