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January[edit] Main article: January 1911 Through mid-January (starting 31 December) – The first Industrial Aeroplane Show is held in conjunction with the U.S. International Auto Show, at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace in New York.[1] Charles W. Chappelle (1872–1941), a member of the U.S. Aeronautical Reserve, is the only African-American to invent and display an aeroplane, for which he wins a medal.[2] January 3

1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.[3]

Siege of Sidney Street: Two Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events.

January 5 – Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity is founded at Indiana University Bloomington.[4]

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

January 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.

January 26 – The United States and Canada announce the successful negotiation of their first reciprocal trade agreement.

January 30 – The Cypriot football club Anorthosis Famagusta FC is founded. February[edit] Main article: February 1911 February 5 The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is destroyed by fire, after a bolt of lightning strikes the dome.

The revolution in Haiti is suppressed after the leader, General Montreuil Guillaume, is captured by government troops and shot. General Millionard is executed two days later.[5]

February 11 – The Lincoln Memorial Commission is established, to find an ideal site for the proposed Lincoln Memorial.[6]

February 13 – HNK Hajduk Split, a Croatian football club, is founded.

February 17 – The first "quasi-official" airmail flight occurs, when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California.

February 18 – The first official air mail flight, second overall, takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.

February 18 – A serious earthquake causes a landslide that creates Lake Sarez in what is now Tajikistan. March[edit] Main article: March 1911 March 19 – International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time across Europe.[7]

March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 people.

March 29 – The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the M1911, designed by John Browning (it remains the U.S. service pistol for 74 years).

April[edit] Main article: April 1911 April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the première of his Symphony No. 4, in Helsinki.

April 8 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity; he presents his findings on April 28.[8]

April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17, when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk.

April 18 – SS Lusitania, a 5,557-ton Portuguese passenger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.

April 19 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juárez, but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand.

April 22 – A passenger train from Port Alfred to Grahamstown, South Africa derails on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge, and plunges into the ravine 200 feet (61 metres) below, killing 31 and seriously injuring 23.[9][10]

April 26 – HŠK Građanski Zagreb (predecessor of GNK Dinamo Zagreb), a Croatian Association football club, is founded in Zagreb.

April 27 – Huanghuagang Uprising: In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt").