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=== April === {{Main|April 1911}} * [[April 3]] – [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the première of his [[Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 4]], in [[Helsinki]]. * [[April 8]] – [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers [[superconductivity]]; he presents his findings on [[April 28]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=van Delft, D.|author2=Kes, P.|title=The discovery of superconductivity|journal=Physics Today|volume=63|issue=9|date=September 2010|pages=38–43|doi=10.1063/1.3490499|bibcode=2010PhT....63i..38V|doi-access=free}}</ref> * [[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 people|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 {{convert|200|ft|m|0|abbr=off}} below, killing 31 and seriously injuring 23.<ref name="Holland 1">{{Holland-Vol 1|pages=80–83}}</ref><ref name="SAR History">{{cite book|title=The South African Railways – Historical Survey|editor=Hart, George|publisher=Bill Hart; sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd|date=c. 1978|page=24}}</ref> * [[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").
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