11 May
Notable Births
Konsta Helenius
b. 2006
Finnish ice hockey player (born 2006)
Fermín López
b. 2003
Spanish footballer (born 2003)
Yuki Tsunoda
b. 2000
Japanese racing driver (born 2000)
Wang Chuqin
b. 2000
Chinese table tennis player
Sabrina Carpenter
b. 1999
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1999)
Viktória Hrunčáková
b. 1998
Slovak tennis player (born 1998)
Coi Leray
b. 1997
American rapper and singer (born 1997)
Lana Condor
b. 1997
American actress (born 1997)
Adin Hill
b. 1996
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Gelson Martins
b. 1995
Portuguese footballer (born 1995)
Sachia Vickery
b. 1995
American tennis player
Shira Haas
b. 1995
Israeli actress (born 1995)
Hagos Gebrhiwet
b. 1994
Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1994)
Nene Macdonald
b. 1994
Papua New Guinea international rugby league footballer
Maurice Harkless
b. 1993
American-Puerto Rican basketball player (born 1993)
Thibaut Courtois
b. 1992
Belgian footballer (born 1992)
Pablo Sarabia
b. 1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Bobi (dog)
b. 1992
Revoked Guinness World Record holder for oldest dog ever
Salvador Dalí
b. 1904
Spanish surrealist artist (1904–1989)
Martha Graham
b. 1894
American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)
Notable Deaths
Susan Backlinie
d. 2024
American actress and stuntwoman (1946–2024)
Colt Brennan
d. 2021
American football player (1983–2021)
Norman Lloyd
d. 2021
American actor, producer and director (1914–2021)
Jerry Stiller
d. 2020
American comedian and actor (1927–2020)
Peggy Lipton
d. 2019
American actress (1946–2019)
Thomas Silverstein
d. 2019
American murderer (1952–2019)
Robert Traylor
d. 2011
American basketball player (1977–2011)
Doris Eaton Travis
d. 2010
American actress (1904–2010)
Abel Goumba
d. 2009
Central African politician (1926–2009)
Claudio Huepe
d. 2009
Chilean politician, engineer and economist
Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda
d. 2009
Indian naval officer
John Rutsey
d. 2008
Canadian drummer (1952–2008)
Malietoa Tanumafili II
d. 2007
O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa from 1962 to 2007
Floyd Patterson
d. 2006
American boxer (1935–2006)
Léo Cadieux
d. 2005
Canadian politician (1908-2005)
Horton Davies
d. 2005
Welsh Protestant minister and historian (1916–2005)
Noel Redding
d. 2003
English musician (1945–2003)
Renaude Lapointe
d. 2002
Canadian journalist and Senator
Bill Peet
d. 2002
American illustrator and animator (1915–2002)
Douglas Adams
d. 2001
English writer and humorist (1952–2001)
On This Day in History
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2024
Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
May 2024 solar storms
2024
The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland win with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.
Eurovision Song Contest 2024
2022
The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.
Tatmadaw
2022
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials.
Shireen Abu Akleh
2016
One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.
11 May 2016 Baghdad bombings
2014
Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
Kinshasa
2013
Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
2013 Reyhanlı car bombings
2011
An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
2011 Lorca earthquake
2011
The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbul Convention
2010
David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
David Cameron
2009
An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
Iraq
2009
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
2000
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
Second Chechen War
1998
India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
Pokhran-II
1997
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
Deep Blue (chess computer)
1996
After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
ValuJet Flight 592
1987
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
Klaus Barbie
1985
Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
Bradford City stadium fire
1973
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
Pentagon Papers
1973
Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard.
Aeroflot Flight 6551