Historical Events In May - 11

1985  Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India on May - 11.  

1985  Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1 on this day in history.  

1985  Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands on this day in history.  

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

1987  On this day in history corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines  

1987  First heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) on May - 11.  

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

1988  France performs nuclear test on this day in history.  

1988  On this day in history kV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II  

1988  On May - 11 mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)  

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1988  H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies on this day in history.  

1989  On this day in history 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 May - 11.  

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

1991  Filip J Field, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

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

1993  On this day in history 28th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks wins  

1993  On May - 11 paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire  

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

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

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

1994  Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup on May - 11.  

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

1995  On this day in history arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96  

1996  Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die on May - 11.  

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 May - 11.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

2012  Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation on this day in history.  

2014  On May - 11 thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China  

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

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1568  On this day in history birth of christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)  

1571  On May - 11 birth of niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)  

1654  Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian was born on this day in history.  

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  On May - 11 birth of johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer  

1733  Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799) was born on this day in history.  

1752  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) was born on this day in history.  

1304  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on May - 11.  

1610  Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies on this day in history.  

1631  Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 on May - 11.  

1672  On May - 11 death of charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)  

1708  On May - 11 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  On this day in history francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70  

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