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'''
May 11''' is the 131st day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (132nd in
leap years). There are 234 days remaining.
Events
*
330 -
Byzantium is renamed
New Rome ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as
Constantinople.
*
1502 -
Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the
West Indies.
*
1745 -
War of Austrian Succession:
Battle of Fontenoy (1745) Battle of Fontenoy – At
Fontenoy,
France French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
*
1792 - Captain
Robert Gray becomes the first documented Caucasian to visit the
Columbia River.
*
1812 - Prime Minister
Spencer Perceval is assassinated by
John Bellingham in the lobby of the
British House of Commons House of Commons,
London.
*
1818 -
Charles XIV of Sweden Charles XIV of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Sweden.
*
1857 -
Indian Mutiny:
Indian rebels seize
Delhi from the
United Kingdom British.
*
1858 -
Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd
U.S. state.
*
1862 -
American Civil War: The ironclad
CSS Virginia CSS ''Virginia'' is scuttled in the
James River (Virginia) James River northwest of
Norfolk, Virginia.
*
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Yellow Tavern –
Confederate States of America Confederate General
JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at
Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
*
1867 -
Luxembourg gains its independence.
*
1894 -
Pullman Strike: Three thousand
Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat
Strike action strike in
Illinois.
*
1910 - An act of the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress establishes
Glacier National Park (US) Glacier National Park in
Montana.
*
1911 - The
United States becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires Convention Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
*
1927 - The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
*
1928 - The first analog
Television TV service is inaugurated by
WGY,
Schenectady, New York.
*
1934 -
Dust Bowl: A strong two-day
dust storm removes massive amounts of
Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in
North America.
*
1942 -
William Faulkner's collections of short stories, ''
Go Down, Moses'', is published.
*
1943 -
World War II:
United States American troops invade
Attu Island Attu in the
Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying
Japanese forces.
*
1944 - World War II: The
Allies start a major offensive against the
Axis Powers on the
Gustav Line.
*
1949 -
Siam changes its name to
Thailand.
*1949 -
Israel joins the
United Nations.
*
1953 - The
Waco Tornado: An
Fujita scale F5 tornado hits downtown
Waco, Texas, killing 114.
*
1960 - In
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, four
Israeli
Mossad agents capture fugitive
Nazism Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
*1960 - The first
contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
*
1964 -
Terence Conran opened the first
Habitat (furniture store) Habitat store on
London's
Fulham Road.
*
1969 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Apache Snow – Near the
Laos border,
United States American and
South Vietnamese forces fight
North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "
Hamburger Hill").
*
1970 - The
Lubbock Tornado: An
Fujita scale F5 tornado hits downtown
Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.
*
1973 - Citing government misconduct,
Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the
Pentagon Papers to ''
The New York Times'' dismissed.
*
1976 - The last episode of the TV medical drama ''
Marcus Welby, M.D. ''is aired.
*
1984 - A
transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.
*
1985 - 56 spectators die when a
Bradford City disaster flash fire strikes a
Football (soccer) football Valley Parade ground during a match in
Bradford, England.
*
1987 -
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in
Lyon for
war crimes committed during
World War II.
*1987 - The first
heart-
lung transplant takes place (
Baltimore, Maryland).
*
1992 - An
Philippine general election, 1992 election is held in the
Philippines where General
Fidel Ramos emerged as winner for
President of the Philippines President.
*
1995 - In
New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
*
1996 - After taking-off from
Miami, Florida Miami, a fire started by improperly handled
oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta-bound
ValuJet Flight 592 causes the
Douglas DC-9 to crash in the
Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
*
1997 -
International Business Machines IBM's
Deep Blue chess-playing
supercomputer defeats
Garry Kasparov in the
Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 last game of the rematch, becoming the first
computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
*
1998 - An
Philippine general election, 1998 election is held in the
Philippines where actor
Joseph Estrada emerged as winner for
President of the Philippines President.
*1998 -
Nuclear testing: In the
Rajasthan Desert,
India conducts its first underground nuclear tests violating the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and inflaming its rival neighbor
Pakistan (who already has
nuclear weapons).
*1998 -
ZDTV, "the official technology television network", begins broadcasting. It lasts six years before merging with
G4 (television) G4 to become
G4techTV, a gaming channel.
*
2000 - Last performance of the musical
Cats (musical) in London's West End.
*
2001 -
British Airways finally removes the "world art" designs from the tails of their aircraft.
*
2003 -
Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 19th member of the
500 home run club with a
Home run home run at
Ameriquest Field in Arlington The Ballpark in
Arlington, Texas.
*2003 -
Benvenuto Cellini's
Saliera is stolen from the
Kunsthistorisches Museum in
Vienna.
*
2004 - The
Stockline Plastics factory explosion in
Glasgow kills nine people.
Births
*
1571 -
Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d.
1637)
*
1720 -
Baron Munchhausen Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (d.
1797)
*
1722 -
Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d.
1789)
*
1752 -
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d.
1840)
*
1763 -
János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (d.
1845)
*
1801 -
Henri Labrouste, French architect (d.
1875)
*
1827 -
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d.
1875)
*
1871 -
Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d.
1928)
*
1881 -
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d.
1963)
*
1887 -
Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d.
1961)
*
1888 -
Irving Berlin, American composer (d.
1989)
*
1890 -
Woodall Rodgers, mayor of
Dallas, Texas (d.
1961)
*
1892 -
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d.
1972)
*
1894 -
Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d.
1991)
*
1895 -
J. Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d.
1986)
*
1896 -
Josip Stolcer-Slavenski Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d.
1955)
*
1897 -
Kurt Gerron German director (d.
1944)
*
1903 -
Charlie Gehringer, baseball player (d.
1993)
*
1904 -
Salvador DalÃ, Catalan painter (d.
1989)
*
1907 -
Rose Auslander Rose Ausänder, German poet (d.
1988)
*
1911 -
Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d.
1985)
*
1912 -
Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d.
2001)
*
1913 -
Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d.
1994)
*
1916 -
Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002)
*
1918 -
Richard Feynman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1988)
*
1921 -
Hildegard Hamm-Brucher Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
*
1924 -
Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics
*
1927 -
Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator
*
1928 -
Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
*
1930 -
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d.
2002)
*
1933 -
Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
*
1938 -
Carla Bley, American musician and composer
*
1940 -
Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d.
1993)
*
1941 -
Graham Miles, English snooker player
*
1946 -
Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
*
1948 -
Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
*
1950 -
Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author
*
1952 -
Renaud Séchan, French composer
*1952 -
Mike Lupica, American sports journalist
*1952 -
Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
*1952 -
Frances Fisher, English-born actress
*
1954 -
Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster
*
1955 -
John DeStefano, Jr., American politician
*
1956 -
Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
*1956 -
Alex Lester, British broadcaster
*
1959 -
Martha Quinn, American television personality
*
1963 -
Natasha Richardson, English-born actress
*
1964 -
John Parrott, English snooker player
*
1965 -
Greg Dulli, American musician
*
1966 -
Christoph Schneider, German drummer (
Rammstein)
*
1972 -
Anita Hegh, Australian actress
*
1977 -
Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
*
1981 -
Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
*1981 -
Neil Tapinos, South African Top Radio Newscaster
*
1982 -
Jonathan Jackson (actor) Jonathan Jackson, American actor
*
1983 -
Matt Leinart, American football player
*1983 -
Holly Valance, New Zealand-born actress and singer
*
1984 -
Andres Iniesta, Spanish football (soccer) player
*
1990 -
Robin Jinnerdal, Master of the PSP Foundation
Deaths
*
912 -
Leo VI the Wise Leo VI,
Byzantine Emperor (b.
866)
*
1304 -
Mahmud Ghazan, Persian ruler (b.
1271)
*
1610 -
Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b.
1552)
*
1672 -
Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b.
1615)
*
1708 -
Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b.
1646)
*
1723 -
Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b.
1656)
*
1777 -
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b.
1719)
*
1778 -
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham William Pitt, the Elder,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1708)
*
1812 -
Spencer Perceval,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b.
1762)
*
1869 -
Toshizou Hijikata,
Shinsengumi vice-commander
*
1871 -
John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b.
1792)
*
1848 -
Tom Cribb, English boxer (b.
1781)
*
1887 -
Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b.
1802)
*
1891 -
A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b.
1820)
*
1916 -
Max Reger, German composer (b.
1873)
*1916 -
Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b.
1873)
*
1920 -
William Dean Howells, American writer (b.
1837)
*
1934 -
Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b.
1852)
*
1955 -
Gilbert Laird Jessop Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b.
1874)
*
1960 -
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b.
1874)
*
1963 -
Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1888)
*
1970 -
Johnny Hodges, American musician (b.
1906)
*
1973 -
Lex Barker, American actor (b.
1919)
*
1976 -
Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b.
1898)
*
1981 -
Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
*1981 -
Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b.
1945)
*
1985 -
Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b.
1900)
*
1986 -
Fritz Pollard, American football player (b.
1894)
*
1988 -
Kim Philby, British spy (b.
1912)
*
1996 -
Ademir, Brazilian football player (b.
1922)
*
2001 -
Douglas Adams, English author (b.
1952)
*
2002 -
Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b.
1905)
*
2003 -
Noel Redding, English bassist (
The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b.
1945)
Holidays and observances
*
Feast day of the following
saints in the
Roman Catholic Church:
**
Mamertus
**
Gengou Gangulphus
**
Majolus of Cluny
**
Gauthier of Esterp
**
John Rochester (saint) John Rochester
**
James Walworth
**
Francis of Girolamo
*
Roman Empire -
Feast of the Lemures (See
Larvae)
*
Holiday of the City of Miskolc (since 1992)
*
National School Nurse Day (
United States of America U.S.)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
ThisDayThatYear.com on May 11
-
Today in History: May 11
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May 10 -
May 12 -
April 11 -
June 11 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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