Historical Events In May - 11

1985  On May - 11 booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India   

1985  Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1 on May - 11.   

1985  On May - 11 pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands   

1985  On this day in history chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84   

1987  Corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines on this day in history.   

1987  First heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) on this day in history.   

1987  On this day in history the first heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)   

1988  On May - 11 france performs nuclear test   

1988  On May - 11 kV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II   

1988  Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) on May - 11.   

1988  H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies on May - 11.   

1989  On May - 11 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired   

1989  France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island on May - 11.   

1989  Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds on this day in history.   

1989  President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama on May - 11.   

1991  On this day in history filip J Field, dies at 67   

1992  Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 on May - 11.   

1993  On May - 11 28th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks wins   

1993  Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire on this day in history.   

1993  28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins on this day in history.   

1994  On May - 11 "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances   

1994  6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa on this day in history.   

1994  On May - 11 inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup   

1994  Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1995  Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96 on May - 11.   

1996  On May - 11 valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die   

1996  On this day in history bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85   

1997  Brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

2001  Kurt Schachner turned 40 YEARS OLD. And boy does he show it on this day in history.   

2005  On this day in history serial killer Michael Ross became first person executed in New England in 45 years.   

2009  An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 oer US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded on May - 11.   

2012  Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation on May - 11.   

2014  Thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China on this day in history.   

2018  Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself on this day in history.   

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1568  Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain) was born on May - 11.   

1571  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)   

1654  Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian was born on May - 11.   

1720  On May - 11 birth of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)   

1722  Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam) was born on this day in history.   

1731  Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer was born on May - 11.   

1733  Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799) was born on May - 11.   

1752  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) was born on May - 11.   

1304  On May - 11 death of mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)   

1610  On this day in history matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies   

1631  On this day in history christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57   

1672  Death of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) on this day in history.   

1708  On this day in history death of jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)   

1723  On this day in history death of jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)   

1742  Francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1772  Death of Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged on May - 11.