Historical Events In May - 11

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

1985  On May - 11 madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1  

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

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

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

1988  France performs nuclear test on May - 11.  

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

1988  Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) on this day in history.  

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

1989  217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired on this day in history.  

1989  On this day in history france performs nuclear test at Muruora Island  

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

1992  On May - 11 carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90  

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

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

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

1996  Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1997  On this day in history brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57  

2001  Kurt Schachner turned 40 YEARS OLD. And boy does he show it on May - 11.  

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 this day in history.  

2014  On this day in history thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China  

2018  On May - 11 mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself  

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

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  Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797) was born on May - 11.  

1722  On this day in history birth of peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)  

1731  On May - 11 birth of johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer  

1733  On May - 11 birth of victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799)  

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

1304  On this day in history death of mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)  

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

1631  On May - 11 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 May - 11 death of jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)  

1742  On May - 11 francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70  

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