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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
1797	José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician (d. 1867)
1881	Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
1954	John Gregory, English footballer and manager
1983	Matt Leinart, American football player
1941	Eric Burdon, English musician
1989	Alyssa Brown, Canadian artistic gymnast
1905	Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (d. 1964)
1976	Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper and record producer/executive
1924	Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1989	Giovani dos Santos, Mexican international footballer

Famous People Deaths On May 11

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 11. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2007	Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)
1960	John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
912	Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (b.866).
1779	John Hart, American lawyer and politician (b. 1711)
2010	Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and vaudevillian (b. 1904)
2003	Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)
2008	John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)
1849	Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)
1882	Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)
2021	Colt Brennan, American quarterback