May 11

May 11 is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 234 days remain until the end of the year.

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Events

• 0330 – Constantinople is consecrated.[1]
• 0868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.[2]
• 0912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.[3]
• 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch–Hanoverian army.[4]
• 1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.[5]
• 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.[6]
• 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.[7]
• 1833 – The Lady of the Lake strikes an iceberg off Newfoundland and sinks with the loss of up to 265 passengers and crew.[8]
• 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.[9]
• 1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.[10]
• 1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state of the United States.[11]
• 1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.[12]
• 1889 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.[13]
• 1894 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.[14]
• 1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.[15]
• 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.[16]
• 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes.[17]
• 1960 – Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.[18]
• 1963 – Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.[19]
• 1970 – The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.[20]
• 1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.[21]
• 1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.[22]
• 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.[23]
• 1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators 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.[24]
• 1997 – 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.[25]
• 1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.[26]
• 2000 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.[27]
• 2010 – David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.[28]
• 2011 – An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.[29]
• 2013 – Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.[30]
• 2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.[31]
• 2016 – One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.[32]

Births

• 1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (d. 1637)[33]
• 1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739)[34]
• 1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)[35]^:94
• 1797 – José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician (d. 1867)[36]
• 1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893)[37]
• 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)[38]
• 1854 – Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)[39]
• 1869 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (d. 1943)[40]
• 1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943)[41]
• 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912)[42]
• 1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)[43]
• 1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)[44]
• 1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)[45]
• 1888 – Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)[46]
• 1888 – Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)[47]
• 1889 – Paul Nash, British painter (d. 1946)[48]
• 1890 – Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (d. 1958)[49]
• 1890 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)[50]
• 1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)[51]
• 1895 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)[52]
• 1895 – William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978)[53]
• 1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955)[54]
• 1897 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)[55]
• 1901 – Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-English poet and author (d. 1988)[56]^:7
• 1901 – Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (d. 1967)[57]
• 1902 – Edna Ernestine Kramer, American mathematician (d. 1984)[58]
• 1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)[59]
• 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)[60]
• 1905 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004)[61]
• 1905 – Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (d. 1964)[62]
• 1907 – Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)[63]
• 1911 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2004)[64]
• 1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)[65]
• 1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Indian-Pakistani author and screenwriter (d. 1955)[66]
• 1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)[67]
• 1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)[68]
• 1921 – Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)[69]
• 1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)[70]
• 1924 – Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[71]
• 1925 – Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)[72]
• 1927 – Bernard Fox, British actor (d. 2016)[73]
• 1927 – Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (d. 2007)[74]
• 1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)[75]
• 1930 – Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1995)[76]
• 1932 – Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer[77]
• 1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader[78]
• 1934 – Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)[79]
• 1934 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)[80]
• 1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2007)[81]
• 1937 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer[82]
• 1938 – Narendra Patel, Baron Patel, Tanzanian-English obstetrician, academic, and politician[83]
• 1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician[84]
• 1941 – Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach[85]
• 1943 – Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician[86]
• 1944 – John Benaud, Australian cricketer[87]
• 1948 – Jack Cantoni, French rugby player (d. 2013)[88]
• 1948 – Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician[89]
• 1950 – Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author[90]
• 1950 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)[91]
• 1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta[92]
• 1954 – John Gregory, English footballer and manager[93]
• 1955 – John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven[94]
• 1957 – Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician[95]
• 1962 – Steve Bono, American football player[96]
• 1964 – Bobby Witt, American baseball player[97]
• 1964 – Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager[98]
• 1967 – Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager[99]
• 1969 – Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach[100]
• 1969 – Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner[101]
• 1970 – Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician[102]
• 1970 – Jason Queally, English cyclist[103]
• 1972 – Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete and coach[104]
• 1973 – Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner[105]
• 1974 – Darren Ward, English-Welsh footballer and coach[106]
• 1974 – Tony Warner, English born Trinidadian international footballer and coach[107]
• 1975 – Francisco Cordero, Dominican-American baseball player[108]
• 1976 – Kardinal Offishall, American rapper and record producer/executive[109]
• 1977 – Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer[110]
• 1977 – Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster[111]
• 1977 – Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler[112]
• 1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress[113]
• 1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)[114]
• 1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player[115]
• 1983 – Steven Sotloff, American-Israeli journalist (d. 2014)[116]
• 1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress, singer and model[117]
• 1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer[118]
• 1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer[119]
• 1986 – Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer[120]
• 1987 – Lim Seul-ong, South Korean singer and actor[121]
• 1987 – Monica Roșu, Romanian gymnast[122]
• 1988 – Jeremy Maclin, American football player[123]
• 1988 – Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player[124]
• 1989 – Alyssa Brown, Canadian artistic gymnast[125]
• 1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican international footballer[126]
• 1989 – Cam Newton, American football player[127]
• 1992 – Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer[128]
• 1992 – Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer[129]
• 1993 – Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player[130]
• 1994 – Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner[131]
• 1995 – Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer[132]
• 1999 – Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress[133]
• 1999 – Kaitlyn Dias, American actress and voice artist[134]

Deaths

• 1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)[135]
• 1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)[136]
• 1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)[137]
• 1779 – John Hart, American lawyer and politician (b. 1711)[138]
• 1812 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)[139]
• 1848 – Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)[140]
• 1849 – Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)[141]
• 1882 – Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)[142]
• 1889 – John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)[143]
• 1908 – Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)[144]
• 1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)[145]^:xix
• 1918 – George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)[146]
• 1920 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)[147]
• 1920 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)[148]
• 1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)[149]
• 1929 – Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)[150]
• 1938 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)[150]
• 1955 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)[151]
• 1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)[152]
• 1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)[153]^:169
• 1967 – James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)[154]
• 1979 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)[155]
• 1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)[156]
• 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)[157]
• 1983 – Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)[158]
• 1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)[159]
• 1986 – Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)[160]
• 1988 – Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)[161]
• 1994 – Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)[162]
• 2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)[163]
• 2002 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)[164]
• 2002 – Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1915)[165]
• 2003 – Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)[166]
• 2005 – Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1908)[167]
• 2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (b. 1935)[168]
• 2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)[169]
• 2008 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)[170]
• 2009 – Abel Goumba, Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)[171]
• 2009 – Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (b. 1939)[172]
• 2009 – Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (b. 1915)[173]
• 2010 – Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and vaudevillian (b. 1904)[174]
• 2011 – Robert Traylor, American basketball player (b. 1977)[175]

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Anthimus of Rome[176]
  • Gangulphus of Burgundy[176]
  • Majolus of Cluny[176]
  • Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints[176]
  • May 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• National Technology Day (India)[177]
• Statehood Day (Minnesota)[178]
• Vietnam Human Rights Day (Vietnam)[179]

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