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What happend on 11. May in History
In our data base we found 367 events happened on 11. May:
• 330: Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople. [category: Events]
• 482: Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 565) [category: Births]
• 868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it oldest known dated printed book. [category: Events]
• 912: Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866) [category: Deaths]
• 912: Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. [category: Events]
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• 1304: Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) [category: Deaths]
• 1310: In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics. [category: Events]
• 1366: Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394) [category: Births]
• 1502: Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies. [category: Events]
• 1571: Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) [category: Births]
• 1610: Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (b. 1552) [category: Deaths]
• 1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. [category: Events]
• 1672: Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline (b. 1615) [category: Deaths]
• 1686: Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602) [category: Deaths]
• 1708: Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) [category: Deaths]
• 1715: Ignazio Fiorillo, Italian composer (d. 1787) [category: Births]
• 1715: Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German child of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach (d. 1739) [category: Births]
• 1720: Baron Münchhausen, German nobleman (d. 1797) [category: Births]
• 1722: Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789) [category: Births]
• 1723: Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) [category: Deaths]
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• 1733: Princess Victoire of France (d. 1799) [category: Births]
• 1745: War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army. [category: Events]
• 1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1760: Alaungpaya, Myanmar founder of Konbaung Dynasty (b. 1714) [category: Deaths]
• 1763: János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845) [category: Births]
• 1771: Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek naval commander (d. 1825) [category: Births]
• 1777: George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, English governor (b. 1719) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708) [category: Deaths]
• 1779: John Hart, American delegate and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River. [category: Events]
• 1799: John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836) [category: Births]
• 1801: Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1811: Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai-American conjoined twins (d. 1874) [category: Births]
• 1811: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893) [category: Births]
• 1812: Spencer Perceval, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762) [category: Deaths]
• 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. [category: Events]
• 1813: In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century. [category: Events]
• 1817: Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1820: HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched. [category: Events]
• 1824: Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1827: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1835: Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1838: Walter Goodman, English painter, illustrator, and author (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1846: President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War [category: Events]
• 1848: Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: Juliette Récamier, French society leader (b. 1777) [category: Deaths]
• 1852: Charles W. Fairbanks, American politician, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1854: Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1857: Indian Revolution: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. [category: Events]
• 1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State. [category: Events]
• 1861: Frederick Russell Burnham, American scout and adventurer (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1862: American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1867: Luxembourg gains its independence. [category: Events]
• 1869: Archibald Warden, British tennis player (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1870: Otto von Friesen, Swedish runologist, linguist, and educator (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1871: Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1871: John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792) [category: Deaths]
• 1875: Harriet Quimby, American aviatrix (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1880: Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California [category: Events]
• 1881: Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1881: Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1881: Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1885: Joe "King" Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1887: Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802) [category: Deaths]
• 1888: Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1888: Willis A. Lee, American naval admiral (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1890: Woodall Rodgers, American attorney, businessman, and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1891: A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark. [category: Events]
• 1892: Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1894: Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1894: Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois. [category: Events]
• 1895: William Grant Still, American composer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1896: Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1897: Kurt Gerron, German director (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1897: Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1899: Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1903: Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1904: Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1907: Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1907: Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1907: 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. [category: Events]
• 1909: Ellis R. Dungan, American-Indian director (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1909: Herbert Murrill, English composer (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1910: An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. [category: Events]
• 1911: Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1911: Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1912: Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1912: Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani writer (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1913: Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1914: Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1915: Arthur Hussey, American golfer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1916: Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Phil Rasmussen, American lieutenant (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1918: Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1918: The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established. [category: Events]
• 1920: Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1920: William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician [category: Births]
• 1922: Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist [category: Births]
• 1922: Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1924: Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1924: Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician [category: Births]
• 1924: Ninfa Laurenzo, restaurateur, founded Ninfa's [category: Births]
• 1924: Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. [category: Events]
• 1925: Edward J. King, American politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1927: Bernard Fox, English actor [category: Births]
• 1927: Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar, and cleric (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1927: Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator [category: Births]
• 1927: Juan Gris, Spanish cubist artist (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. [category: Events]
• 1928: Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary [category: Births]
• 1928: Marco Ferreri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1928: Vern Rapp, American baseball manager and coach [category: Births]
• 1928: Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor [category: Births]
• 1929: Fernand Lindsay, Canadian churchman, educator, organist, and festival director (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1929: Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot, and priest (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1930: Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1932: Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer, founded Valentino SpA company [category: Births]
• 1933: Louis Farrakhan, American Nation of Islam leader [category: Births]
• 1934: Arthur Labatt, Canadian businessman [category: Births]
• 1934: Jim Jeffords, American politician [category: Births]
• 1934: Blaise Diagne, Sengalese politician (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1935: Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1935: Kit Lambert, English producer and manager (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1936: Carla Bley, American musician, bandleader, and composer [category: Births]
• 1938: George Lyon, Canadian golfer (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician [category: Births]
• 1939: Dante Tinga, Filipino Supreme Court jurist [category: Births]
• 1939: Evgenii Miller, Russian general (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Juan Downey, Chilean artist (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1940: Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Physician (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Eric Burdon, English singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and painter (The Animals and War) [category: Births]
• 1941: Graham Miles, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1942: Rachel Billington, English author [category: Births]
• 1942: William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. [category: Events]
• 1943: Juliet Harmer, English actress [category: Births]
• 1943: Les Chadwick, English bassist (Gerry and the Pacemakers) [category: Births]
• 1943: Nancy Greene, Canadian alpine skier [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power. [category: Events]
• 1946: Plume Latraverse, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and author [category: Births]
• 1946: Robert Jarvik, American scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur, developed the Artificial heart [category: Births]
• 1946: UMNO is created. [category: Events]
• 1947: Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band and The 31st of February) [category: Births]
• 1948: Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese singer, actor, and poet [category: Births]
• 1949: Israel joins the United Nations. [category: Events]
• 1949: Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945. [category: Events]
• 1950: Dane Iorg, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1950: Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1951: Ed Stelmach, Canadian politician, 13th Premier of Alberta [category: Births]
• 1952: Frances Fisher, English actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Mike Lupica, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1952: Renaud, French composer [category: Births]
• 1952: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Warren Littlefield, American television executive [category: Births]
• 1953: Céline Lomez, Canadian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1953: David Gest, American concert promoter and media personality [category: Births]
• 1953: The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114. [category: Events]
• 1954: John Gregory, English football manager [category: Births]
• 1954: Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster [category: Births]
• 1955: John DeStefano, Jr., American politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Alex Lester, English broadcaster [category: Births]
• 1956: Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist [category: Births]
• 1957: Mike Nesbitt, Irish journalist and politician [category: Births]
• 1957: Peter North, Canadian porn actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Christian Brando, American actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1958: Dan Ireland, American director [category: Births]
• 1958: Phil Smyth, Australian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1958: Walt Terrell, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Martha Quinn, American television and radio host [category: Births]
• 1960: Gildor Roy, French-Canadian actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1960: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. [category: Events]
• 1961: Luis Felipe, Cuban gangster, founder of the Latin Kings [category: Births]
• 1963: Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1963: Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian [category: Births]
• 1963: Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1963: Roark Critchlow, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Bobby Witt, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: Floyd Youmans, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: John Parrott, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1964: Katie Wagner, American reporter [category: Births]
• 1964: Tim Blake Nelson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Greg Dulli, American musician (The Twilight Singers, The Afghan Whigs, and The Gutter Twins) [category: Births]
• 1965: Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Stefano Domenicali, Italian race car manager [category: Births]
• 1966: Christoph Schneider, German musician (Rammstein and Feeling B) [category: Births]
• 1966: Alfred Wintle, English soldier and author (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: James E. Brewton, American painter and printmaker (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta. [category: Events]
• 1968: Jeffrey Donovan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West. [category: Events]
• 1970: Glenn Hugill, English television presenter and producer [category: Births]
• 1970: Harold Ford Jr., American politician [category: Births]
• 1970: Nicky Katt, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage. [category: Events]
• 1972: Anita Hegh, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Daniel Ornellas, Zimbabwean bassist [category: Births]
• 1973: Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. [category: Events]
• 1974: Benoît Magimel, French actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Billy Kidman, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1974: Darren Ward, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Kevin Brown, English-Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1974: Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Coby Bell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Francisco Cordero, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1976: Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper [category: Births]
• 1977: Pablo García, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Victor Matfield, South African rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Laetitia Casta, French model and actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist and composer (Apocalyptica) [category: Births]
• 1979: Erin Lang, Canadian singer, musician, and composer [category: Births]
• 1979: Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (Foggy Mountain Boys and Nashville Grass) (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Austin O'Brien, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist [category: Births]
• 1981: Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician (Bob Marley & The Wailers) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Andrew Walter, American football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Guji Lorenzana, Filipino singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Jonathan Jackson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Daizee Haze, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1983: Frédéric Xhonneux, Belgian decathlete [category: Births]
• 1983: Hanna Verboom, Dutch actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Holly Valance, Australian actress, model, and singer [category: Births]
• 1983: Matt Leinart, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden. [category: Events]
• 1984: Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Gerald Clayton, Dutch-American pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1984: John Bowie, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Marvin Wijks, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Beau Ryan, Australian professional Rugby League footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Matt Giraud, American singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1985: Sifow, Japanese singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. [category: Events]
• 1986: Abou Diaby, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Manuel Schenkhuizen, Dutch gamer [category: Births]
• 1986: Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújo, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Justin King, American football player [category: Births]
• 1987: Louis Murphy, American football player [category: Births]
• 1987: Monica Roşu, Romanian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1987: In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine. [category: Events]
• 1987: Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. [category: Events]
• 1988: Ace Hood, American rapper and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1988: Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1988: Jeremy Maclin, American football player [category: Births]
• 1988: Marcel Kittel, German cyclist [category: Births]
• 1988: Kim Philby, English spy (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Cam Newton, American football player [category: Births]
• 1989: Gianluigi Bianco, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Alex Nimely, Liberian-English footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1993: Jirapong Meenapra, Thai sprinter [category: Births]
• 1994: David Alvarez, Canadian actor and dancer [category: Births]
• 1994: Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. [category: Events]
• 1996: Valeria Patiuk, Israeli tennis player [category: Births]
• 1996: Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Candi Kubeck, American pilot of Valujet Flight 592 (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian politician, President of Nigeria (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Rodney Culver, American football running back (b. 1969) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Sam Ragan, American author, journalist and poet (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Walter Hyatt, American songwriter and musician (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, 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. [category: Events]
• 1996: The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest. [category: Events]
• 1997: Ernie Fields, American musician, arranger, and bandleader (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1998: Oreste Kirkop, Maltese tenor and actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device. [category: Events]
• 1999: Giorgos Kappis, Greek actor (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: René Muñoz, Cuban actor and screenwriter (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia. [category: Events]
• 2001: Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Joseph Bonanno, Sicilian-American mafioso (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Renaude Lapointe, French-Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Road, Fat Mattress, and The Noel Redding Band) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Mick Doyle, Irish rugby player and coach (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Dottie Rambo, American singer-songwriter (The Rambos) (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Abel Goumba, African politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Angel Arce Torres, American hit and run victim (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Bill Kelso, American baseball player (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Claudio Huepe, Chilean politician, engineer, and economist (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Leonard Shlain, American surgeon and writer (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Lude Check, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Mark Landon, American actor (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Pat Booth, English model, photographer, and author (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Peter Philips, Australian politician (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Shanthi Lekha, Sri Lankan actress (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Bob Watt, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Brian Gibson, English footballer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Bud Mahurin, American pilot (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, dancer, and author (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Emmanuel Ngobese, South African soccer player (b. 1980) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Jeff Shaw, Australian lawyer, politician, and judge (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: John Fugh, Chinese-American general (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Maciej Kozłowski, Polish actor (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Rauf Jabbarov, Azerbaijani boxing manager and trainer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Richard LaMotta, American inventor, businessman, lawyer, inventor of Chipwich (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Robert H. Burris, American biochemist and educator (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Timothy Grubb, English slow jumper (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Elisabeth Svendsen, English animal welfare advocate, founded The Donkey Sanctuary (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Glyn Williams, Welsh footballer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Leo Kahn, American businessman, co-founder of Staples Inc. (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-American physicist (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Reach Sambath, Cambodian journalist (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Robert Traylor, American basketball player (b. 1977) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Snooky Young, American trumpeter (Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, and Count Basie Orchestra) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jack Benaroya, American real estate developer and philanthropist (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Patrick Bosch, Dutch footballer (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ramesh Mehta, India playwright, director, actor, and translator (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tony DeZuniga, Filipino comic-book artist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• _: Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Anthimus of Rome [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Anthony de Sant'Ana Galvão [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cyril and Methodius (Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest date on which Whit Monday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the day after Pentecost. (Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Francis of Girolama [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gangulphus of Burgundy [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Holiday of the City of Miskolc (Miskolc) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Majolus of Cluny [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Technology Day (India) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nisga'a Day, celebration of the effective date of the Nisga'a Final Agreement. (Nisga'a Nation) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Odilo of Cluny [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: One of the three days of the Feast of the Lemures. (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Statehood Day (Minnesota) [category: Holidays and observances]