The temperature on May 7, 1911 was between 1.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of death May 9, 1911
The temperature on May 9, 1911 was between 7.7 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
February 18 » The first official flight with airmail 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 (6.2mi) away.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of burial May 11, 1911
The temperature on May 11, 1911 was between 10.3 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
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