Editing 1911 (section)

=== February ===
{{Main|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.<ref name="AROR March 1911">{{cite journal|title=Record of Current Events|journal=The American Monthly Review of Reviews|date=March 1911|pages=287–290}}</ref>
* [[February 17]]&nbsp;&ndash; The first "quasi-official" airmail flight occurs, when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between [[Petaluma]] and [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]], California.
* [[February 18]]
** The first official air mail flight, second overall, takes place in British India from [[Allahabad]] to [[Naini]] when [[Henri Pequet]] carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13&nbsp;km.
** A serious earthquake causes a landslide that creates [[Lake Sarez]] in modern-day [[Tajikistan]].