Historical Events In May - 11

1985  Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India on May - 11.   

1985  On May - 11 madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1   

1985  On May - 11 pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands   

1985  On May - 11 chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84   

1987  On this day in history corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines   

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

1987  The first heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) on this day in history.   

1988  France performs nuclear test on May - 11.   

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

1988  Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) on May - 11.   

1988  On this day in history h A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies   

1989  On May - 11 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired   

1989  France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island on May - 11.   

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 this day in history.   

1991  Filip J Field, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1992  On May - 11 carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90   

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

1993  Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire on May - 11.   

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

1994  On May - 11 inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup   

1994  On May - 11 alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82   

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 May - 11.   

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  On May - 11 kurt Schachner turned 40 YEARS OLD. And boy does he show it.   

2005  Serial killer Michael Ross became first person executed in New England in 45 years on this day in history.   

2009  On May - 11 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.   

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 this day in history mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself   

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1568  On this day in history birth of christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)   

1571  On May - 11 birth of niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)   

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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799)   

1752  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) was born on May - 11.   

1304  On this day in history death of mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)   

1610  On this day in history matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies   

1631  Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1672  On May - 11 death of charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)   

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

1723  On this day in history death of jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)   

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

1772  Death of Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged on this day in history.