May 11 History

May 11 History

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.

Our aim is to enhance the knowledge of human beings. We will have 7 years of history on this side. The history of each particular day by date is what happened on a date. The date of death of any person and special person will be reported. If anyone wants to gain this knowledge then please visit our web site. The limit of your knowledge will increase greatly.

আমাদের উদ্দেশ্য হলো মানুয়ের জ্ঞানের পরিধি বাড়ানো। আমাদের এই সাইডে থাকবে ১ বছরের সমস্থ ঘটে যাওয়া ইতিহাস। তারিখ অনুসারে প্রতিটি বিশেষ দিনের  ইতিহাস কোন তারিখে কি ঘটেছিল। কোন ব্যাক্তির জন্য এবং বিশেষ ব্যাক্তির মৃত্যর তারিখ জানানো হবে। যদি কোন মানুষ এই জ্ঞান অর্জন করতে চায় তাহলে আমাদের এই ওয়েবসাইডটি ভিজিট করুন । আপনার জ্ঞানের সীমা অনেক বৃদ্ধি পাবে। 

Events
1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.[1]
1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.[2]
1833 – The Lady of the Lake strikes an iceberg off Newfoundland and sinks with the loss of up to 265 passengers and crew.[3]
1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.[4]
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state of the United States.[5]
1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.[6]
1894 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.[7]
1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.[8]
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes[9]
1970 – The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.[10]
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.[11]
1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.[12]
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.[13]
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.[14]
1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.[15]
2013 – Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.[16]
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.[17]
2016 – 103 people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.[18]

Births
1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (d. 1637)[19]
1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739)[20]
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)[21]:94
1797 – José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President (1846, 1859) Regent during the Second Mexican Empire (d. 1867)[22]
1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893)[23]
1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)[24]
1854 – Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)[25]
1869 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (d. 1943)[26]
1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943)[27]
1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912)[28]
1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)[29]
1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)[30]
1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)[31]
1888 – Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)[32]
1888 – Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)[33]
1889 – Paul Nash, British painter (d. 1946)[34]
1890 – Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (d. 1958)[35]
1890 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)[36]
1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)[37]
1895 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)[38]
1895 – William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978)[39]
1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955)[40]
1897 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)[41]
1901 – Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-English poet and author (d. 1988)[42]:7
1901 – Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (d. 1967)[43]
1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)[44]
1907 – Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)[45]
1911 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2004)[46]
1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)[47]
1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Indian-Pakistani author and screenwriter (d. 1955)[48]
1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)[49]
1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)[50]
1921 – Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)[51]
1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)[52]
1924 – Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[53]
1925 – Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)[54]
1927 – Bernard Fox, British actor (d. 2016)[55]
1927 – Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (d. 2007)[56]
1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)[57]
1930 – Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1995)[58]
1932 – Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer[59]
1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader[60]
1934 – Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)[61]
1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2007)[62]
1937 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer[63]
1938 – Narendra Patel, Baron Patel, Tanzanian-English obstetrician, academic, and politician[64]
1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician[65]
1941 – Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach[66]
1943 – Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician[67]
1944 – John Benaud, Australian cricketer[68]
1948 – Jack Cantoni, French rugby player (d. 2013)[69]
1948 – Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician[70]
1950 – Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author[71]
1950 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)[72]
1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta[73]
1954 – John Gregory, English footballer and manager[74]
1955 – John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven[75]
1957 – Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician[76]
1962 – Steve Bono, American football player[77]
1964 – Bobby Witt, American baseball player[78]
1964 – Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager[79]
1967 – Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager[80]
1969 – Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach[81]
1969 – Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner[82]
1970 – Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician[83]
1970 – Jason Queally, English cyclist[84]
1972 – Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete and coach[85]
1973 – Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner[86]
1974 – Darren Ward, English-Welsh footballer and coach[87]
1975 – Francisco Cordero, Dominican-American baseball player[88]
1976 – Kardinal Offishall, American rapper and record producer/executive[89]
1977 – Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer[90]
1977 – Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster[91]
1977 – Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler[92]
1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress[93]
1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)[94]
1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player[95]
1983 – Steven Sotloff, American-Israeli journalist (d. 2014)[96]
1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress, singer and model[97]
1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer[98]
1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer[99]
1986 – Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer[100]
1987 – Lim Seul-ong, South Korean singer and actor[101]
1987 – Monica Roșu, Romanian gymnast[102]
1988 – Jeremy Maclin, American football player[103]
1988 – Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player[104]
1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer[105]
1989 – Cam Newton, American football player[106]
1992 – Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer[107]
1992 – Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer[108]
1993 – Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player[109]
1994 – Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner[110]
1995 – Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer[111]
1999 – Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress[112]
1999 – Kaitlyn Dias, American actress and voice artist[113]

Deaths
1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)[114]
1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)[115]
1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)[116]
1779 – John Hart, American lawyer and politician (b. 1711)[117]
1812 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)[118]
1848 – Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)[119]
1849 – Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)[120]
1882 – Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)[121]
1889 – John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)[122]
1908 – Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)[123]
1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)[124]:xix
1918 – George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)[125]
1920 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)[126]
1920 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)[127]
1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)[128]
1929 – Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)[129]
1938 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)[129]
1955 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)[130]
1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)[131]
1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)[132]:169
1967 – James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)[133]
1979 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)[134]
1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)[135]
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1945)[136]
1983 – Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)[137]
1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)[138]
1986 – Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)[139]
1988 – Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)[140]
1994 – Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)[141]
2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)[142]
2002 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)[143]
2002 – Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1915)[144]
2003 – Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)[145]
2005 – Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1908)[146]
2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (b. 1935)[147]
2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)[148]
2008 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)[149]
2009 – Abel Goumba, Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)[150]
2009 – Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (b. 1939)[151]
2009 – Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (b. 1915)[152]
2010 – Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and vaudevillian (b. 1904)[153]
2011 – Robert Traylor, American basketball player (b. 1977)[154]