WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1911
Find out what all happened March to November 1911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. (16. June 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 Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain. (19. November 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)

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