About May 11
May 11, 2021 is the 131st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 266 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 11
- 1310 –In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
- 1647 –Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
- 1745 –War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
- 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.
- 1857 –Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
- 1858 –Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
- 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 –Israel joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1983 –Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners’ Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 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.
- 1998 –India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
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