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What Happened on May 11th This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.
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.
2013	Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
2011	An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
1998	India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
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.
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.
1985	Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
1970	The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
1919	Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1894	Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
1889	An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
1880	Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1857	Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1813	William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.
1812	Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.

Famous People Born on May 11

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Year	Name
1989	Cam Newton, American football player
1974	Tony Warner, English born Trinidadian international footballer and coach
1924	Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1935	Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2007)
1983	Matt Leinart, American football player
1994	Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner
1930	Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
1964	Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1881	Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)
1948	Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician

Famous People Deaths On May 11

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Date	Name
1960	John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
1920	James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
2021	Colt Brennan, American quarterback
2007	Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)
1983	Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)
1778	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
1929	Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
1918	George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
912	Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (b.866).
1979	Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)