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May 11

May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). There are 234 days remaining. \n

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

\n*330 - Byzantium is renamed Constantinople during a dedication ceremony. \n*1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.\n*1745 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army. \n*1792 - Captain Robert Gray becomes the first white man to discover the Columbia River. \n*1812 - Prime Minster Spencer Perceval is assassinated by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons in London.\n*1818 - Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.\n*1857 - Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. \n*1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state. \n*1862 - American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. \n*1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern - Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia. \n*1894 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without Union approval) strike in Illinois. \n*1910 - An act of the United States Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. \n*1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," is founded.\n*1928 - The first analog TV service is inaugurated by WGY, Schenectady, New York. \n*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.\n*1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. \n*1943 - World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. \n*1944 - World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers Gustav Line.\n*1949 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.\n* 1949 - Israel joins the United Nations.\n*1953 - The Waco Tornado: An F5 tornado hit in the downtown section of Waco, Texas killing 114.\n*1960 - In Buenos Aires four Israeli Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who was using the assumed name Ricardo Klement.\n* 1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.\n*1969 - 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").\n*1973 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed. \n*1976 - The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D is aired.\n*1984 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.\n*1985 - 50 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.\n*1987 - Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. \n* 1987 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland). \n*1995 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. \n*1996 - After taking-off from Miami, 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. \n*1997 - IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. \n*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).\n*2004 - The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.

Births

Deaths

\n*1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552)\n*1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, British Prime Minister (b. 1708)\n*1812 - Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister (assassination) (b. 1762)\n*1871 - John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)\n*1848 - Tom Cribb, bare-knuckle boxer (b. 1781)\n*1916 - Max Reger, composer (b. 1873)\n*1920 - William Dean Howells, writer (b. 1837)\n*1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr, philanthropist (b. 1874)\n*1970 - Johnny Hodges, musician (b. 1906)\n*1973 - Lex Barker, actor (b. 1919)\n*1976 - Alvar Aalto, architect (b. 1898)\n*1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician (b. 1945)\n*1985 - Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy) (b. 1900)\n*1987 - Peter Tosh, musician (b. 1944)\n*1988 - Kim Philby, spy (b. 1912)\n*2001 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author (b. 1952)\n*2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Mafioso (aka Joey Bananas) (b. 1905)

Holidays and observances

\n*Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures (See Larvae)\n*Mother's Day - 2003, 2008, 2014\n---- May 10 - May 12 - April 11 - June 11 -- listing of all days \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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