page_title: May 1911
section_title: May 31, 1911 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: May 1911 / May 31, 1911 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Титаник после спуска на водуEnglish: Titanic launched at Belfast
context_page_description: The following events occurred in May 1911:
context_section_description: The terrorist bombing of the barracks at Fort La Loma in Nicaragua killed 130 people.
  Shortly after the thoroughbred horse Sunstar won the 132nd running of Britain's premiere horse race, the Epsom Derby, a powerful thunderstorm struck the area in and around Epsom.  Seventeen people were killed by lightning strikes, and more were injured, during the evening.  A downpour soaked most of the 100,000 spectators, though none were killed .
  The White Star liner RMS Titanic, at the time the largest mobile object ever constructed, was launched from Belfast at 12:13 pm.  It was 883 feet long, 58 feet high and weighed 46,000 tons.  It would sink less than a year later.
  Porfirio Díaz left Mexico to begin his exile in France, departing from Veracruz on the steamer Ypiranga.  Before departing, he declared, "I shall die in Mexico." He would die in exile in France in 1915.
  Born: Maurice Allais, French economist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, in Paris  (d. 2010)
caption: Newly built megaship Titanic
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