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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
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. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
330 – Constantinople is consecrated.[1] ·
868 –
A copy of the Diamond Sutra is
printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.[2] ·
912 – 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[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
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[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints[176] o May
11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
National
Technology Day (India)[177] ·
Statehood
Day (Minnesota)[178] ·
Vietnam Human
Rights Day[179] |
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