May 11th Events |
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| May 11th, 2007 (May 11 2007) | Event | Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvao. | |
| 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, 2000 (May 11 2000) | Event | Last performance of the musical Cats in London s West End. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 1984 (May 11 1984) | Event | A transit of Earth from Mars takes place. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1967 (May 11 1967) | Event | Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta. | |
| 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, 1953 (May 11 1953) | Event | The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114. | |
| 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, 1946 (May 11 1946) | Event | UMNO is created. | |
| 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, 1942 (May 11 1942) | Event | William Faulkner s collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. | William Faulkner Quotes |
| 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, 1927 (May 11 1927) | Event | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. | |
| May 11th, 1924 (May 11 1924) | Event | Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies. | |
| May 11th, 1918 (May 11 1918) | Event | The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established. | |
| May 11th, 1911 (May 11 1911) | Event | The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| May 11th, 1910 (May 11 1910) | Event | An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. | |
| 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, 1894 (May 11 1894) | Event | Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois. | |
| May 11th, 1891 (May 11 1891) | Event | The Otsu Scandal takes place. | |
| 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, 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, 1841 (May 11 1841) | Event | Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound. | Charles Fort Quotes |
| 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, 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, 1792 (May 11 1792) | Event | Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River. | |
| 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, 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, 0330 (May 11 0330) | Event | Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople. | |
