WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1911
Find out what all happened April to August 1911

During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg). (6. April 1911)

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

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

United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death. (14. August 1911)

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

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

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

Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. (27. April 1911)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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