About May 11
May 11, 2025 is the 131st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 282 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 11
- 912 –Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1310 –In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
- 1792 –Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
- 1813 –In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
- 1820 –Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
- 1846 –President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War
- 1880 –Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
- 1891 –The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
- 1918 –The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
- 1924 –Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
- 1927 –The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
- 1942 –William Faulkner’s collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
- 1945 –World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of her crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
- 1949 –Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
- 1953 –The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
- 1970 –The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
- 1985 –Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England.
- 1995 –In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
- 1996 –After the aircraft’s departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
- 1996 –The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
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