On this day in History - May 11
- 0330 - Byzantium is renamed renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
- 0912 - Emperor Leo VI of the Byzantine Empire dies (b. 0866).
- 1304 - Mahmud Ghazan dies (b. 1271). Mongol ruler.
- 1310 - 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.
- 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies with 150 men in 4 caravels. He reached the coast of Honduras after 8 months and passed south to Panama (1503). He returned to Spain Nov 7, 1504, after suffering a shipwreck at Jamaica.
- 1571 - Niwa Nagashige was born (d. 1637). Japanese daimyo and retainer.
- 1610 - Matteo Ricci dies (b. 1552). Italian Jesuit missionary.
- 1672 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline dies (b. 1615). English royalist.
- 1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart dies (b. 1646). French architect.
- 1720 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen was born (d. 1797). Officer and adventurer.
- 1722 - Petrus Camper was born (d. 1789). Dutch anatomist.
- 1723 - Jean Galbert de Campistron dies (b. 1656). French dramatist.
- 1742 - Francesco Stradivari (70), Italian violin maker, son of Antonius, died.
- 1745 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
- 1751 - The 1st US hospital was founded in Pennsylvania.
- 1752 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was born (d. 1840). German anthropologist.
- 1763 - János Bacsanyi was born (d. 1845). Hungarian poet.
- 1778 - William Pitt, the Elder dies (b. 1708). British Prime Minister (1756-61, 66-68).
- 1792 - Captain Robert Gray becomes the first white man to discover the Columbia River.
- 1799 - John Lowell was born (d. 1836). American philanthropist.
- 1801 - Henri Labrouste was born (d. 24 Jun 1875). French architect.
- 1811 - Chang and Eng Bunker were born. Famous conjoined twins
- 1811 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel was born (d. 1893). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
- 1812 - Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
- 1812 - Spencer Perceval dies assassinated (b. 1762). British Prime Minister.
- 1814 - España: Fernando VII anula la Constitución de Cádiz y la legislación de las Cortes de Cádiz.
- 1817 - Fanny Cerrito was born (d. 1909). Italian ballet dancer.
- 1820 - Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
- 1824 - Jean-Léon Gérôme was born (d. 1904). French painter and sculptor.
- 1824 - Los británicos se apoderan de Birmania.
- 1827 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born (d. 1875). French sculptor and painter.
- 1838 - Walter Goodman was born (d. 1912). British painter, illustrator and author.
- 1848 - Tom Cribb dies (b. 1781). Bare-knuckle boxer.
- 1849 - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier dies (b. 1777). French socialite.
- 1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern - Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
- 1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
- 1871 - John Herschel dies (b. 1792). British mathematician and astronomer.
- 1869 - Francisco de Lacerda was born in S. Jorge Island, Azores (d. 18 Jul 1934). Portuguese composer and conductor.
- 1868 - Em França, foi decretada a Liberdade de Imprensa.
- 1871 - John Herschel dies (b. 1792). British mathematician and astronomer.
- 1871 - Stjepan Radic was born (d. 1928). Croatian politician.
- 1871 - Frank Schlesinger was born (d. 1943). American astronomer.
- 1873 - Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz dies. Cuban revolutionary.
- 1875 - Harriet Quimby was born (d.1912). American aviator.
- 1881 - Theodore von Kármán was born (d. 1963). Hungarian physicist.
- 1881 - Al Cabrera was born (d.1964). Spanish-born Cuban baseball player.
- 1885 - "King" Joseph Oliver was born. Jazz cornetist and bandleader.
- 1887 - Paul Wittgenstein was born (d. 1961). Austrian-born pianist.
- 1887 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault dies (b. 1802). French chemist.
- 1888 - Irving Berlin was born (d. 1989). American composer.
- 1888 - Willis A. Lee was born. World War II U.S. naval admiral.
- 1889 - Augusto Casimiro dos Santos was born in S. Gonçalo, Amarante (d. 23 Sep 1967). Portuguese poet.
- 1890 - Woodall Rodgers was born (d. 1961). Mayor of Dallas, Texas.
- 1891 - Otsu Scandal.
- 1891 - A. E. Becquerel dies (b. 1820). French physicist.
- 1892 - Margaret Rutherford was born (d. 1972). English actress.
- 1894 - Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
- 1894 - Martha Graham was born (d. 1991). American dancer and choreographer.
- 1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti was born (d. 1986). Indian philosopher.
- 1896 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski was born (d. 1955). Croatian composer.
- 1897 - Kurt Gerron was born (d. 1944). German director.
- 1897 - Robert E. Gross was born (b. 1961). American businessman.
- 1902 - Bidu Sayão [Balduína e Moreira] was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian opera singer.
- 1903 - Charlie Gehringer was born (d. 1993). Baseball Hall of Famer.
- 1904 - Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Spain (d. 1989). Surrealist painter.
- 1905 - Augusto Rademaker (Almirante Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald) was born. Brazilian politician who was the 38th President of Brazil.
- 1907 - A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.
- 1907 - Argemiro de Assis Brasil was born (d. 1982). Brazilian soldier.
- 1907 - Rose Ausänder was born (d. 1988). German poet.
- 1907 - Juan Oscar Ponferrada was born. Argentine painter.
- 1907 - Rip Sewell was born (d. 1989). American baseball player.
- 1909 - Herbert Murrill was born (d. 1952). English composer.
- 1911 - Os Estados Unidos reconhecem a República de Portugal.
- 1911 - Phil Silvers was born (d. 1985). American actor and comedian.
- 1911 - Mitchell Sharp was born (d. 2004). Canadian politician.
- 1912 - Foster Brooks was born (d. 2001). American actor and comedian.
- 1913 - Robert Jungk was born (d. 1994). Austrian publicist.
- 1913 - Edgar Cardoso was born. Portuguese engineer well known for his work about bridges (d. 2000).
- 1913 - Robert Jungk was born (d. 1994). Austrian publicist.
- 1914 - Haroun Tazieff was born (d. 1998). French volcanologist.
- 1916 - Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was presented.
- 1916 - Camilo José Cela was born (d. 2002). Spanish writer. Winnner Premio del Príncipe Asturias de las Letras (1987), Nobel Prize in Literature -1989, Premio Cervantes -1995.
- 1916 - Max Reger dies (b. 1873). German composer.
- 1916 - Karl Schwarzschild dies (b. 1873). German astronomer and physicist.
- 1917 - Joaquim de Araújo dies in Sintra (b. 22 Jul 1858). Portuguese poet.
- 1918 - Richard Feynman was born (d. 15 Feb 1988). American theoretical physicist. His classic lectures were published in 1995 in the book “Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by its most Brilliant Teacher” by Addison -Wesley in 1995. In 1996 Feynman’s “Lost Lecture” was written by David L. and Judith R. Goodstein. In 1965, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for work in quantum electrodynamics.
- 1918 - The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was officially established.
- 1920 - William Dean Howells dies (b. 1837). American writer.
- 1921 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher was born. German politician.
- 1922 - Nestor Chylak was born (d. 1992). American baseball umpire.
- 1924 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) .
- 1924 - Antony Hewish was borm. British astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his discovery of pulsars (cosmic objects that emit extremely regular pulses of radio waves).
- 1924 - Eugene Dynkin was born. Russian mathematician.
- 1925 - Rubem Fonseca was born. Brazilian writer.
- 1927 - Louis B. Mayer formed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards,"
- 1928 - Yaacov Agam was born. Israeli sculptor
- 1928 - Marco Ferreri was born (d. 1997). Italian film director and screenwriter.
- 1928 - Mort Sahl was born. Canadian comedian and political commentator.
- 1930 - Edsger Dijkstra was born (d. 2002). Dutch computer scientist.
- 1933 - Louis Farrakhan was born. American Black Muslim leader.
- 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.
- 1934 - Orest Khvolson dies (b. 1852). Russian physicist.
- 1935 - Doug McClure was born (d. 1995). American actor.
- 1936 - Portugal : Salazar assume a pasta da Guerra, cargo que só deixará em 1944. Para além de Presidente do Conselho (de 1932 a 1968), também é Ministro das Finanças (de 1928 a 1940).
- 1937 - Afonso Costa dies in Lisbon (b. 6 Mar 1871). Portuguese politician.
- 1938 - Carla Bley was born. American musician and composer.
- 1938 - Evgenii Miller dies (b. 1867). Russian counter-revolutionary.
- 1940 - Juan Downey was born (d. 1993). Chilean video artist.
- 1941 - Graham Miles was born. English snooker player.
- 1941 - Eric Burdon was born. British singer (The Animals).
- 1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
- 1943 - World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
- 1943 - Fernanda Lapa was born. Portuguese actress.
- 1943 - Juliet Harmer was born. English actress.
- 1943 - Nancy Greene was born. Canadian alpine skier.
- 1946 - UMNO is created.
- 1946 - Robert Jarvik was born. American physicist and inventor.
- 1946 - Plume Latraverse was born. Quebec singer and musician.
- 1947 - Butch Trucks was born. American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band)
- 1948 - Shigeru Izumiya was born. Japanese folk musician.
- 1948 - Nirj Deva was born. Sri Lankan-British politician.
- 1949 - Beth Mendes (Elizabeth Mendes de Oliveira) was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
- 1949 - João Botelho was born. Portuguese film director / Nascia em Lamego, João Botelho. Realizador de cinema português [Conversa Acabada (1982) Um Adeus Português (1985)Tráfico (1998) Quem És Tu? (2000)... ].
- 1949 - Israel joins the United Nations.
- 1950 - Jeremy Paxman was born. British journalist and author.
- 1950 - Dane Iorg was born. American baseball player
- 1952 - Renaud Séchan was born. French composer.
- 1952 - Sandra Brea (Sandra Bréa Brito) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
- 1952 - Mike Lupica was born. American sports journalist.
- 1952 - Carlos Daniel was born. Portuguese actor.
- 1952 - Shohreh Aghdashloo was born. Iranian actress.
- 1952 - Frances Fisher was born. English-born actress.
- 1953 - David Gest was born. American television producer.
- 1953 - Céline Lomez was born. Quebec singer and actress
- 1953 - Boyd Gaines was born. Actor.
- 1954 - Lubomir Stoykov was born. Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster.
- 1955 - John DeStefano, Jr. was born. American politician.
- 1955 - Gilbert Jessop dies (b. 1874). English cricketer, known as fastest-scoring batsman of all time.
- 1956 - Theresa Burke was born. Canadian journalist.
- 1956 - Alex Lester was born. British broadcaster.
- 1957 - Peter North was born. Canadian porn star.
- 1958 - Walt Terrell was born. American baseball player.
- 1958 - Phil Smyth was born. Australian basketball player.
- 1959 - Martha Quinn was born. American television personality.
- 1960 - In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
- 1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market [Searle's contraceptive pill, Enovid].
- 1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. dies (b. 1874). Philanthropist.
- 1960 - In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
- 1963 - Natasha Richardson was born. English-born actress.
- 1963 - Gunilla Carlsson was born. Swedish politician.
- 1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser dies (b. 5 Jul 1888). American physiologist, corecipient (with Joseph Erlanger) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for fundamental discoveries concerning the functions of different kinds of nerve fibres.
- 1964 - John Parrott was born. English snooker player.
- 1964 - Katie Wagner was born. American television reporter
1964 - Floyd Youmans was born. American professional baseball player - 1965 - Greg Dulli was born. American musician
1966 - Christoph Schneider was born. German drummer (Rammstein) - 1966 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
- 1966 - Nancy Hower was born. American actress, sceenwriter, director, and producer.
- 1967 - Andreas Papandreou is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
- 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").
- 1970 - The Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road" is released as a single in the United States. It becomes the group's last number one single in that country.
- 1970 - Johnny Hodges dies (b. 1906). American musician.
- 1971 - Sean Francis Lemass dies. Primeiro-ministro da Irlanda (1959-1966).
- 1972 - Anita Hegh was born. Australian actress.
- 1973 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed.
- 1973 - James Haven was born. American actor
- 1974 - Kevin Brown was born. English-born Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Billy Kidman was born. American professional wrestler
- 1976 - Alvar Aalto dies (b. 1898). Finish architect.
- 1976 - The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.
- 1977 - Janne Ahonen was born. Finnish ski jumper
1978 - Laetitia Casta was born in Pont-Audemer. French supermodel and actress. See here beautiful Laeticia Casta's wallpaper - 1979 - Erin Lang was born. Canadian musician
- 1979 - Lester Flatt dies (b. 1914). American bluegrass musician.
- 1981 - The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats," based on TS Eliot poems, premiered in London.
- 1981 - Lauren Jackson was born. Australian basketball player.
- 1981 - Dan Ortmeier was born. American baseball player.
1981 - Bob Marley dies (b. 1945). Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician. - 1981 - Odd Hassel dies (b. 1897). Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1982 - Jonathan Jackson was born. Actor.
- 1983 - Matt Leinart was born. American football player.
- 1983 - Holly Valance was born. Australian-born actress and singer.
- 1984 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.
- 1984 - Chile: el pueblo chileno sale a la calle para manifestarse contra la dictadura de Pinochet.
- 1984 - Andres Iniesta was born. Spanish football player
1985 - 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England. - 1985 - Chester Gould dies (b. 1900). American cartoonist (Dick Tracy).
- 1986 - Vassiriki Diaby was born. French footballer
- 1986 - Ronny was born. Brazilian footballer
- 1987 - Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
- 1987 - Corazon Aquino was elected president in the Philippines.
- 1987 - Justin King was born. American football player
- 1987 - Monica Roşu was born. Romanian gymnast
- 1988 - Kim Philby dies (b. 1912). British spy.
- 1989 - Giovanni dos Santos was born. Mexican footballer
- 1992 - Carlos Herrera (90), drink inventor (Margarita), died.
- 1990 - Se crea el Instituto Cervantes.
- 1991 - Em Angola, foi instituído o sistema político multipartidário.
- 1993 - 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
- 1994 - Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup.
- 1995 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
- 1995 - Scientists confirmed that Ebola, one of the world's deadliest viruses, had broken out in Zaire. The outbreak, in the city of Kikwit, killed about 50, including three Italian nuns who had cared for victims.
- 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.
- 1996 - Ademir Marques de Menezes dies (b. 1922). Brazilian football player.
- 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
- 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).
- 1998 - ZDTV-The official Technology Television network starts broadcasting. It lasted six years until the G4techTV Merger and it turned into a gaming channel.
- 1998 - An election is held in the Philippines where actor Joseph Estrada emerged as winner for President.
- 1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.
- 1999 - O grupo chileno Enersis adquire 30% da companhia de geração de energia Endesa.
- 2000 - Paula Wessely dies (b. 1907). Austrian actress.
- 2001 - Denise Quinones August of Puerto Rico won the Miss Universe contest held in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
- 2001 - Douglas Adams dies (b. 1952). English author.
- 2002 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveiled the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa (May 11, 2002) and Apeldoorn (May 2, 2000, symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.
- 2002 - Joseph Bonanno dies (b. 1905). Mafioso (aka Joey Bananas) .2002 May 11, Joseph Bonanno (97), former Mafia boss known as "Joe Bananas," died in Tuscon, Az. His autobiography was titled “A Man of Honor.”
- 2002 - Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
- 2003 - Noel Redding dies (b. 1912). English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience).
- 2004 - The Bush administration ordered economic sanctions against Syria for supporting terrorism. Food and medicine were excepted.
- 2004 - The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.
- 2004 - John Whitehead dies (b. 1949). American singer (McFadden & Whitehead).
- 2005 - Michalis Genitsaris dies (b. 1917). Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
- 2006 - Floyd Patterson dies (b. 1935). American boxer.
- 2006 - Frankie Thomas dies (b. 1921). American actor.
- 2006 - Yossi Banai dies (b. 1932). Israeli singer.
- Holiday of the City of Miskolc (since 1992).
- Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures (See Larvae).
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