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 132nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 28, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 476,496 hours 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 ‘hectatriacontadigon’ day.
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 263 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 4,159 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.
1812 –
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
1857 –
Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1867 –
Luxembourg gains its independence.
1943 –
World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
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.
1953 –
The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
1960 –
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
1970 –
The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
1973 –
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
Who were born on May 11?
1852 –
Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)
1881 –
Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
1927 –
Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
1932 –
Valentino Garavani (Valentino), Italian designer
1963 –
Natasha Richardson, English/American actress (d. 2009)
1964 –
Floyd Youmans, American baseball player
1964 –
Katie Wagner, American television reporter
1981 –
Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1986 –
Manuel Schenkhuizen, Dutch gamer
1989 –
Gianluigi Bianco, Italian footballer
Who died on May 11?
1610 –
Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552)
1779 –
John Hart, delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1711)
1891 –
A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1927 –
Juan Gris, Spanish cubist artist (b. 1887)
1955 –
Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
1986 –
Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
1988 –
Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
2002 –
Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
2004 –
John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
2007 –
Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (O le Ao o le Malo) (b. 1913)
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