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 May - 11.  

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

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

1988  On May - 11 france performs nuclear test  

1988  KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II on May - 11.  

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

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  On May - 11 france performs nuclear test at Muruora Island  

1989  On May - 11 kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

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

1994  On this day in history inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup  

1994  Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82 on May - 11.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1997  Brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57 on May - 11.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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 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 this day in history.  

1571  On this day in history 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  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  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  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on May - 11.  

1610  On May - 11 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  Death of Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) on May - 11.  

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

1772  On this day in history death of joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged