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  On this day in history 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 May - 11.  

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  On this day in history france performs nuclear test  

1988  KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II on this day in history.  

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

1988  On this day in history h A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies  

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

1989  France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island on this day in history.  

1989  Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds on May - 11.  

1989  On this day in history president Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama  

1991  On May - 11 filip J Field, dies at 67  

1992  Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 on this day in history.  

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

1993  Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire on May - 11.  

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

1994  On this day in history "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances  

1994  6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa on May - 11.  

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

1994  On this day in history alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82  

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

1996  On this day in history valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die  

1996  On May - 11 bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85  

1997  On May - 11 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 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  On this day in history 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.  

2012  On this day in history chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation  

2014  On this day in history 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  Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain) was born on this day in history.  

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

1654  On this day in history birth of cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian  

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

1722  On May - 11 birth of peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)  

1731  Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1752  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)  

1304  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on this day in history.  

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

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

1672  On this day in history death of charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)  

1708  Death of Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) on this day in history.  

1723  On this day in history 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 this day in history.