What are the important events that happened on May 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 11 is the 131st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 28, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,115,360 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontahenagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 282 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,524 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 11 Historical Events
- 1502 –Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
- 1846 –President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War
- 1862 –American Civil War: The ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
- 1910 –An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
- 1943 –World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
- 1946 –UMNO is created.
- 1949 –Israel joins the United Nations.
- 1953 –The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
- 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.
- 1995 –In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
Who were born on May 11?
- 1571 –Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
- 1881 –Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
- 1911 –Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
- 1939 –Dante Tinga, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
- 1950 –Dane Iorg, American baseball player
- 1958 –Walt Terrell, American baseball player
- 1974 –Darren Ward, Welsh footballer
- 1981 –Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist and reporter in Hungary
- 1982 –Guji Lorenzana, Filipino singer and actor
- 1983 –Daizee Haze, American professional wrestler
Who died on May 11?
- 1871 –John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
- 1920 –William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
- 1966 –Alfred Wintle, British WW1 & WW2 soldier; author of “The Last Englishman” (b. 1897)
- 1985 –Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
- 1986 –Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
- 1988 –Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
- 1994 –Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2002 –Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
- 2007 –Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (O le Ao o le Malo) (b. 1913)
- 2008 –Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
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