Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal. Date: August 24, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 24 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. Date: August 21, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate. Date: August 1, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 1 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London. Date: July 28, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 28 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". Date: July 24, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, is greeted by president William Howard Taft after he lands his aeroplane on the South Lawn of the White House, having flown from Boston. Date: July 14, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 14 📅 Events on this day in 1911…
The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. Date: July 7, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 7 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day…
A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities. Date: July 4, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 4 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. Date: July 1, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt. Date: June 28, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 28 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)