May 11
May 11 this yearin various calendars Akan Fodwo Armenian 25 Mareri 1475 Aztec Ochpaniztli 1, 5 Ātl Babylonian 23 Nisanu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Pasah, Sri, Pon, Tungleh, Coma of Gumbreg, Ludra, Urungan, Pati Bengali 28 Boisakh , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Wood Rooster ・Roof Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 3 , Day 25Lixia , 10 days until Xiaoman )Common Era 11 May 2026 CE Coptic 3 Pashons , AM 1742Egyptian 25 Thoth , 2775 NE Ethiopian 3 Genbot, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Duodi de Floréal de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 11 May , AD 2026 Hebrew 24 Iyar , AM 5786Omer 39 Hindu Śatabhiṣaj ・Indra Vaiśākha , 1948 SE Navamī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Vaiśākha , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,706 Icelandic Mánudagur, 19 Harpa 2026 Islamic 24 Dhu al-Qi'dah , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W20-1 Japanese 25 Yayoi , Reiwa 8Rikka , 10 days until Shōman ) Julian 28 April , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461172 Korean 25 Yongdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.10.9 2 Zip , 5 Muluc Roman ante diem IV Kalendas Maias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 21 Ordibehesht , SH 1405 Tibetan 24 nag pa, me pho rta
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Day of the year
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.
Events
Pre-1600
330 – Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium , changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire .868 – A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published, the earliest dated and printed book known.973 – In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England , having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth , is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.1068 – Matilda of Flanders , wife of William the Conqueror , is crowned Queen of England .1258 – Louis IX of France and James I of Aragon sign the Treaty of Corbeil , renouncing claims of feudal overlordship in one another's territories and separating the House of Barcelona from the politics of France.1560 – The Ottoman naval forces inflict a defeat on a Spanish fleet in the battle of Djerba . This marks the highpoint of Ottoman naval dominance in the Mediterranean, which starts declining five years later after the failed siege of Malta .1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty .1953 – In the deadliest of a series of tornadoes , an F5 tornado kills 114 in Waco, Texas.1970 – The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers The New York Times are dismissed.1973 – Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey , Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan ), killing all 63 aboard.
1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire .1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II .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 Airlines Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.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.1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.2000 – Second Chechen War : Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia .
2009 – An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad , killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.2009 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope .
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 .2011 – An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain .2011 – The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul , Turkey.
2013 – Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey .2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa , DRC , in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.2016 – One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad .2022 – The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing , Myanmar.2022 – Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin . Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials.
2024 – Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms , the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms .2024 – The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö , Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland win with their song "The Code" , making them the contest's first non-binary winner.Births
1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach , German organist (died 1739)1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (died 1840): 94 1797 – José Mariano Salas , Mexican general and politician (died 1867)1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , Swiss politician (died 1893)1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker , Siamese-American showmen, the original conjoined twins (died 1874)
1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks , American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (died 1918)1854 – Jack Blackham , Australian cricketer (died 1932)1869 – Archibald Warden , English tennis player (died 1943)1871 – Frank Schlesinger , American astronomer and author (died 1943)1875 – Harriet Quimby , American pilot and screenwriter (died 1912)1881 – Al Cabrera , Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (died 1964)1881 – Jan van Gilse , Dutch composer and conductor (died 1944)
1881 – Theodore von Kármán , Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (died 1963)
1888 – Irving Berlin , Belarusian-American pianist and composer (died 1989)1888 – Willis Augustus Lee , American admiral (died 1945)
1889 – Paul Nash , British painter (died 1946)1890 – Willie Applegarth , English-American sprinter (died 1958)1890 – Helge Løvland , Norwegian decathlete (died 1984)
1894 – Martha Graham , American dancer and choreographer (died 1991)1895 – Jacques Brugnon , French tennis player (died 1978)1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti , Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
1895 – William Grant Still , American composer and conductor (died 1978)
1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski , Croatian composer and academic (died 1955)1897 – Robert E. Gross , American businessman (died 1961)1901 – Rose Ausländer , poet and author (died 1988)1901 – Gladys Rockmore Davis , American painter (died 1967)
1903 – Charlie Gehringer , American baseball player and manager (died 1993)1904 – Salvador Dalí , Spanish artist (died 1989)1905 – Lise de Baissac , Mauritian SOE agent, war hero (died 2004)1905 – Catherine Bauer Wurster , American architect and public housing advocate (died 1964)
1907 – Rip Sewell , American baseball player and coach (died 1989)1911 – Phil Silvers , American actor and comedian (died 1985)1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto , Pakistani author and screenwriter (died 1955)1912 – Foster Brooks , American actor and comedian (died 2001)1916 – Camilo José Cela , Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)1918 – Richard Feynman , American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)1924 – Antony Hewish , English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)1925 – Edward J. King , American politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (died 2006)1927 – Bernard Fox , British actor (died 2016)1927 – Gene Savoy , American explorer, author, and scholar (died 2007)
1928 – Arthur Foulkes , 9th governor-general of the Bahamas1929 – Gerhard Klingenberg , Austrian actor (died 2024)1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra , Dutch computer scientist and academic (died 2002)1930 – Basil H. Losten , American Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch (died 2024)
1932 – Valentino Garavani , Italian fashion designer (died 2026)1933 – Louis Farrakhan , American religious leader1934 – Jim Jeffords , American lawyer and politician (died 2014)1934 – Jack Twyman , American basketball player (died 2012)
1937 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő , Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer1941 – Eric Burdon , English musician1941 – Ian Redpath , Australian cricketer and coach (died 2024)
1943 – Nancy Greene Raine , Canadian skier and politician1945 – Hilda Pérez Carvajal , Venezuelan biologist1947 – Butch Trucks , American drummer (died 2017)1948 – Nirj Deva , British politician1948 – Pam Ferris , Welsh actress
1950 – Jeremy Paxman , English journalist and author1950 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar , Indian actor (died 2014)
1951 – Ed Stelmach , Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta 1954 – John Gregory , English footballer and manager1955 – James L. Dolan , American businessman1957 – Mike Nesbitt , Northern Irish journalist and politician1958 – Sayuri Kume , Japanese singer-songwriter1963 – Natasha Richardson , English actress (died 2009)1964 – Tim Blake Nelson , American actor1964 – Bobby Witt , American baseball player
1967 – Alberto García Aspe , Mexican footballer and manager1969 – Mitch Healey , Australian rugby league player and coach1969 – Simon Vroemen , Dutch runner
1970 – Harold Ford Jr. , American lawyer and politician1974 – Stanley Gene , Papua New Guinean rugby league player1975 – Francisco Cordero , Dominican baseball player1976 – Kardinal Offishall , Canadian rapper and record producer/executive1977 – Pablo Gabriel García , Uruguayan footballer1977 – Victor Matfield , South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
1977 – Bobby Roode , Canadian professional wrestler
1978 – Laetitia Casta , French model and actress1978 – Judy Ann Santos , Filipino actress
1981 – Lauren Jackson , Australian basketball player1981 – JP Karliak , American actor, voice actor and comedian1982 – Cory Monteith , Canadian actor and singer (died 2013)1983 – Matt Leinart , American football player1983 – Steven Sotloff , American-Israeli journalist (died 2014)
1983 – Holly Valance , Australian actress, singer and model
1984 – Andrés Iniesta , Spanish footballer1985 – Beau Ryan , Australian rugby league player and television host1986 – Abou Diaby , French footballer1986 – Miguel Veloso , Portuguese footballer
1987 – Lim Seul-ong , South Korean singer and actor1988 – Jeremy Maclin , American football player1988 – Brad Marchand , Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Giovani dos Santos , Mexican footballer1989 – Cam Newton , American football player
1992 – Thibaut Courtois , Belgian footballer1992 – Pablo Sarabia , Spanish footballer
1992 – Bryan Rust , American ice hockey player
1992 – Bobi , Portuguese Rafeiro do Alentejo , oldest recorded dog (died 2023)
1993 – Maurice Harkless , American-Puerto Rican basketball player1993 – Miguel Sanó , Dominican baseball player
1994 – Hagos Gebrhiwet , Ethiopian runner1994 – Nene Macdonald , Papua New Guinean rugby league player
1995 – Gelson Martins , Portuguese footballer1995 – Sachia Vickery , American tennis player
1995 – Shira Haas , Israeli actress
1996 – Adin Hill , Canadian ice hockey player1997 – Coi Leray , American rapper and singer1997 – Lana Condor , American actress
1998 – Viktória Kužmová , Slovak tennis player1999 – Sabrina Carpenter , American singer and actress2000 – Yūki Tsunoda , Japanese racing driver2000 – Wang Chuqin , Chinese table tennis player
2003 – Fermín López , Spanish footballer2006 – Konsta Helenius , Finnish ice hockey playerDeaths
1610 – Matteo Ricci , Italian priest and mathematician (born 1552)1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1708)1779 – John Hart , American lawyer and politician (born 1711)1812 – Spencer Perceval , English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1762)1848 – Tom Cribb , English boxer (born 1781)1849 – Juliette Récamier , French businesswoman (born 1777)1882 – Frederick Innes , Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (born 1816)1889 – John Cadbury , English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (born 1801)1908 – Charles Kingston , Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)1916 – Karl Schwarzschild , German astronomer and physicist (born 1873): xix 1918 – George Elmslie , Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (born 1861)1920 – James Colosimo , Italian-American mob boss (born 1878)1920 – William Dean Howells , American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (born 1837)
1927 – Juan Gris , Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)1929 – Jozef Murgaš , Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (born 1864)1938 – George Lyon , Canadian golfer and cricketer (born 1858)1946 – Seán McCaughey , Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1915)1955 – Gilbert Jessop , English cricketer (born 1874)1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr. , American businessman and philanthropist (born 1874)1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser , American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888): 169 1964 – Janne Mustonen , Finnish politician (born 1901)1967 – James E. Brewton , American painter (born 1930)1979 – Lester Flatt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)1980 – Dyre Vaa , Norwegian sculptor and painter (born 1903)1981 – Odd Hassel , Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)1981 – Bob Marley , Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
1983 – Zenna Henderson , American writer (born 1917)1985 – Chester Gould , American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy 1986 – Fritz Pollard , American football player and coach (born 1894)1987 – James Jesus Angleton , CIA counterintelligence leader (born 1917)1988 – Kim Philby , British-Soviet double agent (born 1912)1990 – Stratos Dionysiou , Greek Singer , composer and lyricist (born 1935)1991 – Ulyana Barkova , Russian farm worker (born 1906)1994 – Timothy Carey , American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)2001 – Douglas Adams , English novelist and screenwriter (born 1952)2002 – Renaude Lapointe , Canadian journalist and politician (born 1912)2002 – Bill Peet , American animator and screenwriter (born 1915)
2003 – Noel Redding , English bass player (born 1945)2005 – Léo Cadieux , Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (born 1908)2005 – Horton Davies , Welsh minister and historian (born 1916)
2006 – Floyd Patterson , American boxer and actor (born 1935)2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II , Samoan ruler (born 1913)2008 – John Rutsey , Canadian drummer (born 1953)2009 – Abel Goumba , Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1926)2009 – Claudio Huepe , Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (born 1939)
2009 – Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda , Indian admiral (born 1915)
2010 – Doris Eaton Travis , American dancer and vaudevillian (born 1904)2011 – Robert Traylor , American basketball player (born 1977)2019 – Peggy Lipton , American actress, model, and singer (born 1946)2019 – Thomas Silverstein , American murderer (born 1952)
2020 – Jerry Stiller , American comedian, actor (born 1927)2021 – Norman Lloyd , American actor, producer and director (born 1914)2024 – Susan Backlinie , American actress and stuntwoman (born 1946)2026 – Brandon Clarke , Canadian-American basketball player (born 1996)