Page 9: Historical Events In May - 11

1985  On this day in history booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India   

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 May - 11 chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84   

1987  Corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines on May - 11.   

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

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  On this day in history mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1993  On this day in history paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire   

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

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

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

1994  Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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 May - 11 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 May - 11 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  Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) was born on May - 11.   

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

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  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  On May - 11 birth of johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)   

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

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

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 May - 11.   

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

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