#OTD in 1911.
Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, writing as "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa and a number of Egyptian statuettes from the Louvre museum in Paris on August 21 and imprisoned for six days. This year he publishes his first book of poetry, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire
Books by Guillaume Apollinaire at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6075