May 11th All Events |
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| May 11th, 2008 (May 11 2008) | Death | Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (born in 1934) | |
| May 11th, 2008 (May 11 2008) | Death | John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953) | |
| May 11th, 2007 (May 11 2007) | Event | Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvao. | |
| May 11th, 2007 (May 11 2007) | Death | Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (born in 1913) | |
| May 11th, 2007 (May 11 2007) | Death | Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (born in 1918) | |
| May 11th, 2006 (May 11 2006) | Death | Floyd Patterson, American boxer (born in 1935) | |
| May 11th, 2006 (May 11 2006) | Death | Frankie Thomas, American actor (born in 1921) | Thomas Frank Quotes |
| May 11th, 2006 (May 11 2006) | Death | Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (born in 1932) | |
| May 11th, 2005 (May 11 2005) | Death | Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (born in 1917) | |
| May 11th, 2004 (May 11 2004) | Death | Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach | |
| May 11th, 2004 (May 11 2004) | Death | John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (born in 1949) | |
| May 11th, 2003 (May 11 2003) | Death | Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (born in 1945) | Jimi Hendrix Quotes |
| May 11th, 2002 (May 11 2002) | Event | Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War. | |
| May 11th, 2002 (May 11 2002) | Death | Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (born in 1905) | |
| May 11th, 2002 (May 11 2002) | Death | Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (born in 1912) | |
| May 11th, 2001 (May 11 2001) | Death | Douglas Adams, English author (born in 1952) | Douglas Adams Quotes |
| May 11th, 2000 (May 11 2000) | Event | Last performance of the musical Cats in London s West End. | |
| May 11th, 2000 (May 11 2000) | Death | Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (born in 1907) | |
| May 11th, 1998 (May 11 1998) | Event | India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device. | |
| May 11th, 1997 (May 11 1997) | Event | IBM Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format. | Garry Kasparov Quotes |
| May 11th, 1996 (May 11 1996) | Event | After taking-off from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board. | |
| May 11th, 1996 (May 11 1996) | Death | Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (born in 1922) | |
| May 11th, 1996 (May 11 1996) | Death | Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (born in 1904) | |
| May 11th, 1995 (May 11 1995) | Event | In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. | |
| May 11th, 1994 (May 11 1994) | Death | Timothy Carey, American actor (born in 1928) | |
| May 11th, 1989 (May 11 1989) | Birth | Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer | |
| May 11th, 1988 (May 11 1988) | Death | Kim Philby, British spy (born in 1912) | |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Event | Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. | Klaus Barbie Quotes |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Event | In Baltimore, Maryland, The first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz, of Stanford University School of Medicine. | |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Birth | Justin King, American football player | |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Birth | Louis Murphy, American college football player | |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Birth | Monica Rosu, Romanian gymnast | |
| May 11th, 1986 (May 11 1986) | Birth | Abou Diaby, French footballer | |
| May 11th, 1986 (May 11 1986) | Birth | Ronny, Brazilian footballer | |
| May 11th, 1986 (May 11 1986) | Birth | Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, Dutch Professional Gamer | |
| May 11th, 1986 (May 11 1986) | Death | Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (born in 1910) | |
| May 11th, 1986 (May 11 1986) | Death | Fritz Pollard, American football player (born in 1894) | |
| May 11th, 1985 (May 11 1985) | Event | Fifty-six spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England. | |
| May 11th, 1985 (May 11 1985) | Birth | sifow, Japanese pop star and business woman | |
| May 11th, 1985 (May 11 1985) | Death | Chester Gould, American cartoonist (born in 1900) | |
| May 11th, 1984 (May 11 1984) | Event | A transit of Earth from Mars takes place. | |
| May 11th, 1984 (May 11 1984) | Birth | Andres Iniesta, Spanish football player | |
| May 11th, 1983 (May 11 1983) | Birth | Matt Leinart, American football player | |
| May 11th, 1983 (May 11 1983) | Birth | Holly Valance, Australian-born actress and singer | |
| May 11th, 1983 (May 11 1983) | Birth | Frederic Xhonneux, Belgian decathlete | |
| May 11th, 1982 (May 11 1982) | Birth | Jonathan Jackson, American actor | |
| May 11th, 1982 (May 11 1982) | Birth | Andrew Walter, American football player | |
| May 11th, 1981 (May 11 1981) | Birth | Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player | |
| May 11th, 1981 (May 11 1981) | Birth | Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player | |
| May 11th, 1981 (May 11 1981) | Birth | Austin O Brien, American actor | |
| May 11th, 1981 (May 11 1981) | Death | Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1897) | |
| May 11th, 1981 (May 11 1981) | Death | Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (born in 1945) | Bob Marley Quotes |
| May 11th, 1979 (May 11 1979) | Birth | Erin Lang, Canadian musician | |
| May 11th, 1979 (May 11 1979) | Death | Lester Flatt, American bluegrass musician (born in 1914) | |
| May 11th, 1978 (May 11 1978) | Birth | Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress | |
| May 11th, 1978 (May 11 1978) | Birth | Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish Cellist from the band Apocalyptica | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Pablo Garcia, Uruguayan footballer | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Matthew Newton, Australian actor | |
| May 11th, 1976 (May 11 1976) | Death | Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (born in 1898) | |
| May 11th, 1975 (May 11 1975) | Birth | Francisco Cordero, Dominican baseball player | |
| May 11th, 1974 (May 11 1974) | Birth | Kevin Brown, English-born Canadian ice hockey player | |
| May 11th, 1974 (May 11 1974) | Birth | Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer | |
| May 11th, 1974 (May 11 1974) | Birth | Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler | |
| May 11th, 1974 (May 11 1974) | Birth | Benoit Magimel, French actor | |
| May 11th, 1974 (May 11 1974) | Birth | Darren Ward, Welsh footballer | |
| May 11th, 1973 (May 11 1973) | Event | Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. | |
| May 11th, 1973 (May 11 1973) | Birth | James Haven, American actor | |
| May 11th, 1973 (May 11 1973) | Death | Lex Barker, American actor (born in 1919) | |
| May 11th, 1972 (May 11 1972) | Birth | Anita Hegh, Australian actress | |
| May 11th, 1970 (May 11 1970) | Event | Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina. | Henry Ford Quotes |
| May 11th, 1970 (May 11 1970) | Event | The Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26. | |
| May 11th, 1970 (May 11 1970) | Birth | Nicky Katt, American actor | |
| May 11th, 1970 (May 11 1970) | Birth | Glenn Hugill, British television presenter and producer | |
| May 11th, 1970 (May 11 1970) | Death | Johnny Hodges, American musician (born in 1906) | |
| May 11th, 1969 (May 11 1969) | Event | Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow - Near the Laos border, American and South Vietnamese forces fight North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "Hamburger Hill"). | |
| May 11th, 1968 (May 11 1968) | Event | The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor-Danforth Line, going to Scarborough in the east, and Etobicoke in the west. | |
| May 11th, 1968 (May 11 1968) | Birth | Jeffrey Donovan, American actor | |
| May 11th, 1967 (May 11 1967) | Event | Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta. | |
| May 11th, 1966 (May 11 1966) | Birth | Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein) | |
| May 11th, 1965 (May 11 1965) | Birth | Greg Dulli, American musician | |
| May 11th, 1965 (May 11 1965) | Birth | Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor | Martial Quotes |
| May 11th, 1964 (May 11 1964) | Birth | John Parrott, English snooker player | |
| May 11th, 1964 (May 11 1964) | Birth | Katie Wagner, American television reporter | |
| May 11th, 1964 (May 11 1964) | Birth | Floyd Youmans, American baseball player | |
| May 11th, 1963 (May 11 1963) | Birth | Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician | |
| May 11th, 1963 (May 11 1963) | Birth | Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian | |
| May 11th, 1963 (May 11 1963) | Birth | Natasha Richardson, English-born actress | |
| May 11th, 1963 (May 11 1963) | Death | Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1888) | Herbert Spencer Quotes |
| May 11th, 1960 (May 11 1960) | Event | In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement. | Adolf Eichmann Quotes |
| May 11th, 1960 (May 11 1960) | Event | The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market. | |
| May 11th, 1960 (May 11 1960) | Death | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (born in 1874) | John D. Rockefeller Quotes |
| May 11th, 1959 (May 11 1959) | Birth | Martha Quinn, American television personality | |
| May 11th, 1958 (May 11 1958) | Birth | Christian Brando, American actor and eldest child of Marlon Brando (died in 2008) | Marlon Brando Quotes |
| May 11th, 1958 (May 11 1958) | Birth | Phil Smyth, Australian basketball player | |
| May 11th, 1958 (May 11 1958) | Birth | Walt Terrell, American baseball player | |
| May 11th, 1957 (May 11 1957) | Birth | Peter North, Canadian porn star | |
| May 11th, 1956 (May 11 1956) | Birth | Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist | |
| May 11th, 1956 (May 11 1956) | Birth | Alex Lester, British broadcaster | |
| May 11th, 1955 (May 11 1955) | Birth | John DeStefano, Jr., American politician | |
| May 11th, 1955 (May 11 1955) | Death | Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (born in 1874) | |
| May 11th, 1954 (May 11 1954) | Birth | John Gregory, English football manager | |
| May 11th, 1954 (May 11 1954) | Birth | Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster | |
| May 11th, 1953 (May 11 1953) | Event | The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114. | |
| May 11th, 1953 (May 11 1953) | Birth | David Gest, American television producer | |
| May 11th, 1953 (May 11 1953) | Birth | Celine Lomez, Quebec singer and actress | |
| May 11th, 1952 (May 11 1952) | Birth | Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress | |
| May 11th, 1952 (May 11 1952) | Birth | Frances Fisher, English-born actress | |
| May 11th, 1952 (May 11 1952) | Birth | Mike Lupica, American sports journalist | |
| May 11th, 1952 (May 11 1952) | Birth | Renaud Sechan, French composer | |
| May 11th, 1950 (May 11 1950) | Birth | Dane Iorg, American baseball player | |
| May 11th, 1950 (May 11 1950) | Birth | Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author | |
| May 11th, 1949 (May 11 1949) | Event | Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, a name in use since 1939. | |
| May 11th, 1949 (May 11 1949) | Event | Israel joins the United Nations. | |
| May 11th, 1948 (May 11 1948) | Birth | Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-British politician | |
| May 11th, 1948 (May 11 1948) | Birth | Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician | |
| May 11th, 1947 (May 11 1947) | Birth | Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band) | |
| May 11th, 1946 (May 11 1946) | Event | UMNO is created. | |
| May 11th, 1946 (May 11 1946) | Birth | Robert Jarvik, American physician and inventor | |
| May 11th, 1946 (May 11 1946) | Birth | Plume Latraverse, Quebec singer and musician | |
| May 11th, 1944 (May 11 1944) | Event | World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line. | |
| May 11th, 1943 (May 11 1943) | Event | World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. | |
| May 11th, 1943 (May 11 1943) | Birth | Nancy Greene, Canadian alpine skier | |
| May 11th, 1943 (May 11 1943) | Birth | Juliet Harmer, English actress | |
| May 11th, 1942 (May 11 1942) | Event | William Faulkner s collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. | William Faulkner Quotes |
| May 11th, 1942 (May 11 1942) | Birth | Rachel Billington, British author | |
| May 11th, 1941 (May 11 1941) | Birth | Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals) | |
| May 11th, 1941 (May 11 1941) | Birth | Graham Miles, English snooker player | |
| May 11th, 1940 (May 11 1940) | Birth | Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (died in 1993) | |
| May 11th, 1939 (May 11 1939) | Birth | Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician | |
| May 11th, 1939 (May 11 1939) | Birth | Dante Tinga, Filipino Supreme Court jurist | |
| May 11th, 1939 (May 11 1939) | Death | Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (born in 1867) | |
| May 11th, 1936 (May 11 1936) | Birth | Carla Bley, American musician and composer | |
| May 11th, 1935 (May 11 1935) | Birth | Doug McClure, American actor (died in 1995) | |
| May 11th, 1935 (May 11 1935) | Birth | Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (died in 2007) | |
| May 11th, 1934 (May 11 1934) | Event | 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. | |
| May 11th, 1934 (May 11 1934) | Birth | Jim Jeffords, former American politician | |
| May 11th, 1934 (May 11 1934) | Death | Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (born in 1852) | |
| May 11th, 1933 (May 11 1933) | Birth | Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader | |
| May 11th, 1930 (May 11 1930) | Birth | Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (died in 2002) | Edsger Dijkstra Quotes |
| May 11th, 1930 (May 11 1930) | Birth | Bud Ekins, American stuntman (died in 2007) | |
| May 11th, 1929 (May 11 1929) | Death | Jozef Murgas, Slovak inventor (born in 1864) | |
| May 11th, 1928 (May 11 1928) | Birth | Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor | |
| May 11th, 1928 (May 11 1928) | Birth | Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary | |
| May 11th, 1928 (May 11 1928) | Birth | Marco Ferreri, Italian film director and screenwriter (died in 1997) | |
| May 11th, 1927 (May 11 1927) | Event | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. | |
| May 11th, 1927 (May 11 1927) | Birth | Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator | |
| May 11th, 1927 (May 11 1927) | Birth | Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (died in 2007) | |
| May 11th, 1925 (May 11 1925) | Birth | Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 2006) | |
| May 11th, 1924 (May 11 1924) | Event | Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies. | |
| May 11th, 1924 (May 11 1924) | Birth | Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician | |
| May 11th, 1924 (May 11 1924) | Birth | Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate | |
| May 11th, 1922 (May 11 1922) | Birth | Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (died in 1992) | |
| May 11th, 1922 (May 11 1922) | Birth | Ameurfina Melencio Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist | |
| May 11th, 1921 (May 11 1921) | Birth | Hildegard Hamm-Brucher, German politician | |
| May 11th, 1920 (May 11 1920) | Death | William Dean Howells, American writer (born in 1837) | William Dean Howells Quotes |
| May 11th, 1918 (May 11 1918) | Event | The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established. | |
| May 11th, 1918 (May 11 1918) | Birth | Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1988) | Richard Feynman Quotes |
| May 11th, 1916 (May 11 1916) | Birth | Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (died in 2002) | |
| May 11th, 1916 (May 11 1916) | Death | Max Reger, German composer (born in 1873) | |
| May 11th, 1916 (May 11 1916) | Death | Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (born in 1873) | |
| May 11th, 1914 (May 11 1914) | Birth | Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (died in 1998) | |
| May 11th, 1913 (May 11 1913) | Birth | Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (died in 1994) | |
| May 11th, 1912 (May 11 1912) | Birth | Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (died in 2001) | |
| May 11th, 1911 (May 11 1911) | Event | The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| May 11th, 1911 (May 11 1911) | Birth | Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (died in 2004) | |
| May 11th, 1911 (May 11 1911) | Birth | Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (died in 1985) | |
| May 11th, 1910 (May 11 1910) | Event | An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. | |
| May 11th, 1909 (May 11 1909) | Birth | Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (died in 2001) | |
| May 11th, 1909 (May 11 1909) | Birth | Herbert Murrill, English composer (died in 1952) | |
| May 11th, 1907 (May 11 1907) | Event | A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot. | |
| May 11th, 1907 (May 11 1907) | Birth | Rose Auslander, German poet (died in 1988) | |
| May 11th, 1907 (May 11 1907) | Birth | Rip Sewell, American baseball player (died in 1989) | |
| May 11th, 1904 (May 11 1904) | Birth | Salvador Dali, Spanish painter (died in 1989) | Salvador Dali Quotes |
| May 11th, 1903 (May 11 1903) | Birth | Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (died in 1993) | |
| May 11th, 1899 (May 11 1899) | Birth | Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (died in 1963) | |
| May 11th, 1897 (May 11 1897) | Birth | Kurt Gerron, German director (died in 1944) | |
| May 11th, 1897 (May 11 1897) | Birth | Robert E. Gross, American businessman (died in 1961) | |
| May 11th, 1896 (May 11 1896) | Birth | Josip Stolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (died in 1955) | |
| May 11th, 1895 (May 11 1895) | Birth | Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (died in 1986) | Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes |
| May 11th, 1894 (May 11 1894) | Event | Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois. | |
| May 11th, 1894 (May 11 1894) | Birth | Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (died in 1991) | |
| May 11th, 1892 (May 11 1892) | Birth | Margaret Rutherford, English actress (died in 1972) | |
| May 11th, 1891 (May 11 1891) | Event | The Otsu Scandal takes place. | |
| May 11th, 1891 (May 11 1891) | Death | A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (born in 1820) | |
| May 11th, 1890 (May 11 1890) | Birth | Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (died in 1961) | |
| May 11th, 1888 (May 11 1888) | Birth | Irving Berlin, American composer (died in 1989) | Irving Berlin Quotes |
| May 11th, 1888 (May 11 1888) | Birth | Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (died in 1945) | |
| May 11th, 1887 (May 11 1887) | Birth | Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (died in 1961) | |
| May 11th, 1887 (May 11 1887) | Death | Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (born in 1802) | |
| May 11th, 1881 (May 11 1881) | Birth | Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (died in 1964) | |
| May 11th, 1881 (May 11 1881) | Birth | Theodore von Karman, Hungarian physicist (died in 1963) | Theodore von Karman Quotes |
| May 11th, 1875 (May 11 1875) | Birth | Harriet Quimby, American aviator (died in 1912) | |
| May 11th, 1871 (May 11 1871) | Birth | Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (died in 1928) | |
| May 11th, 1871 (May 11 1871) | Birth | Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (died in 1943) | |
| May 11th, 1871 (May 11 1871) | Death | John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (born in 1792) | John Herschel Quotes |
| May 11th, 1867 (May 11 1867) | Event | Luxembourg gains its independence. | |
| May 11th, 1864 (May 11 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern - Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia. | |
| May 11th, 1862 (May 11 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. | |
| May 11th, 1861 (May 11 1861) | Birth | Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international scouting movement (died in 1947) | Frederick Russell Burnham Quotes |
| May 11th, 1858 (May 11 1858) | Event | Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state. | |
| May 11th, 1857 (May 11 1857) | Event | Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. | |
| May 11th, 1854 (May 11 1854) | Birth | Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (died in 1932) | |
| May 11th, 1852 (May 11 1852) | Birth | Charles W. Fairbanks, United States Vice President (died in 1918) | |
| May 11th, 1849 (May 11 1849) | Death | Jeanne Francoise Julie Adelaide Recamier, French socialite (born in 1777) | |
| May 11th, 1848 (May 11 1848) | Death | Tom Cribb, English boxer (born in 1781) | |
| May 11th, 1841 (May 11 1841) | Event | Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound. | Charles Fort Quotes |
| May 11th, 1838 (May 11 1838) | Birth | Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (died in 1912) | |
| May 11th, 1835 (May 11 1835) | Birth | Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (died in 1905) | |
| May 11th, 1827 (May 11 1827) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (died in 1875) | |
| May 11th, 1824 (May 11 1824) | Birth | Jean-Leon Gerome, French painter and sculptor (died in 1904) | |
| May 11th, 1820 (May 11 1820) | Event | Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage. | Charles Darwin Quotes |
| May 11th, 1817 (May 11 1817) | Birth | Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (died in 1909) | |
| May 11th, 1813 (May 11 1813) | Event | In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century. | |
| May 11th, 1812 (May 11 1812) | Event | Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. | |
| May 11th, 1812 (May 11 1812) | Death | Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (born in 1762) | |
| May 11th, 1811 (May 11 1811) | Birth | Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins (died in 1874) | |
| May 11th, 1811 (May 11 1811) | Birth | Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (died in 1893) | |
| May 11th, 1801 (May 11 1801) | Birth | Henri Labrouste, French architect (died in 1875) | |
| May 11th, 1799 (May 11 1799) | Birth | John Lowell, American philanthropist (died in 1836) | |
| May 11th, 1792 (May 11 1792) | Event | Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River. | |
| May 11th, 1778 (May 11 1778) | Death | William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1708) | William King Quotes |
| May 11th, 1777 (May 11 1777) | Death | George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (born in 1719) | |
| May 11th, 1763 (May 11 1763) | Birth | Janos Batsanyi, Hungarian poet (died in 1845) | |
| May 11th, 1752 (May 11 1752) | Birth | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (died in 1840) | |
| May 11th, 1745 (May 11 1745) | Event | War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army. | |
| May 11th, 1733 (May 11 1733) | Birth | Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (died in 1799) | |
| May 11th, 1723 (May 11 1723) | Death | Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (born in 1656) | |
| May 11th, 1722 (May 11 1722) | Birth | Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (died in 1789) | |
| May 11th, 1720 (May 11 1720) | Birth | Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen, German adventurer (died in 1797) | |
| May 11th, 1708 (May 11 1708) | Death | Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (born in 1646) | |
| May 11th, 1672 (May 11 1672) | Death | Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (born in 1615) | |
| May 11th, 1610 (May 11 1610) | Death | Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (born in 1552) | |
| May 11th, 1571 (May 11 1571) | Birth | Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (died in 1637) | |
| May 11th, 1502 (May 11 1502) | Event | Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| May 11th, 1310 (May 11 1310) | Event | Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics. | |
| May 11th, 1304 (May 11 1304) | Death | Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (born in 1271) | |
| May 11th, 0912 (May 11 0912) | Death | Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (born in 866) | |
| May 11th, 0330 (May 11 0330) | Event | Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople. | |
