Historical Events In May - 11

1985  Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India on this day in history.   

1985  Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1 on this day in history.   

1985  Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands on May - 11.   

1985  On this day in history chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84   

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

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

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

1988  France performs nuclear test on May - 11.   

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

1988  On this day in history mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)   

1988  H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies on May - 11.   

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

1989  On this day in history france performs nuclear test at Muruora Island   

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  Filip J Field, dies at 67 on May - 11.   

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

1993  28th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks wins on May - 11.   

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

1993  On May - 11 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins   

1994  "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances on May - 11.   

1994  On this day in history 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa   

1994  On this day in history inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup   

1994  On this day in history alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82   

1995  On May - 11 arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96   

1996  Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die on this day in history.   

1996  On May - 11 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 this day in history.   

2005  Serial killer Michael Ross became first person executed in New England in 45 years on May - 11.   

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  Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation on May - 11.   

2014  On May - 11 thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China   

2018  Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself on this day in history.   

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1568  On May - 11 birth of christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)   

1571  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)   

1654  Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian was born on this day in history.   

1720  On this day in history birth of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)   

1722  Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam) was born on this day in history.   

1731  Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer was born on May - 11.   

1733  On May - 11 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  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on May - 11.   

1610  Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies on May - 11.   

1631  Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 on May - 11.   

1672  On this day in history death of charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)   

1708  On May - 11 death of jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)   

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 May - 11.   

1772  Death of Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged on May - 11.