About May 11
May 11, 2023 is the 131st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 275 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.
- 1812 –Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
- 1857 –Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
- 1858 –Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
- 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.
- 1910 –An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
- 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.
- 1953 –The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
- 1960 –In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
- 1968 –The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West.
- 1983 –Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners’ Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 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.
- 1987 –In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
- 1996 –The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
- 1998 –India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
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