of Bihar is formed out of the erstwhile State of Bengal, in British India. March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between Japan and the United States. March 29 – The remaining members of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition die. March 30 – The French Third Republic establishes the French protectorate in Morocco by the Treaty of Fes with Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco. April April 1 – A partial lunar eclipse takes place, the first of two lunar eclipses this year. It is the 61st lunar eclipse of the 111th Saros cycle, which started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on June 10, 830 AD and will conclude with another penumbral lunar eclipse on July 19, 2092. April 10 – White Star liner departs from Southampton, England, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York. April 11 – makes her last call, at Queenstown in Ireland. April 14–15 – Sinking of the RMS Titanic: strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. The wreck will not be discovered until 1985. April 14 – Santos FC, a Brazilian association football club, is founded in State of Sao Paulo. April 16 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel. April 17 Lena massacre: Russian troops kill or wound 500 striking gold miners in Siberia. A hybrid solar eclipse is the 30th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 137. April 18 – Cunard Line vessel arrives in New York with the 705 survivors. April 20 Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts opens. Yogindranath Tagore founds Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School in West Bengal, India. April 24 – English association football club Barnsley win the FA Cup. April 30 – Carl Laemmle founds Universal Studios as the Universal Film and Manufacturing Company in the United States. May May 1 – `Abdu'l-Bahá lays the cornerstone for the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois. May 5 – The Olympic Games open in Stockholm, Sweden. May 11 – Alaska becomes a territory of the United States. May 13 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established. May 23 – The Hamburg America Line's is launched in Hamburg and is the