May 11

May 11 is the 131st day of the Gregorian calendar ( 132nd in leap years), thus remaining 234 days of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 19th century
  • 2.2 19th century
  • 2.3 20th century 2.3.1 1901-1950
  • 2.3.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 20th century
  • 3.2 20th century
  • 3.3 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • 415 BC: In Athens, which is currently in the midst of the preparations for the expedition Sicily during the Peloponnesian War against Sparta, are found numerous Hermen with decapitated head in the morning. Suspected of Hermenfrevels is why, among other things the commander Alcibiades, but the process is shifted so as not to delay his departure.
  • 0330: Emperor Constantine the Great inaugurated after several years of construction, the previous one Byzantium under the name Nova Roma and makes it the capital of the Roman Empire. After his death, the city is named Konstantin Opel.
  • 1189: In Regensburg breaks and a half years after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Ayyubids under Saladin with a multi thousand -strong army of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa of the Third Crusade.
  • 1258: James I of Aragon by the Treaty of Corbeil are hereditary claims on two French counties, while in return the King of France Louis IX. the whereabouts of North Catalonia and Barcelona to the Kingdom of Aragon recognizes.
  • 1484: The army of Emperor Frederick III. under the leadership of Kaspar von Roggendorfstraße who wants to relieve the besieged city of Hungarian troops under Tobias of Boskowitz and Černahora Korneuburg, suffered in the Battle of Leitzersdorf a heavy defeat. With this victory, the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, the great parts of the Habsburg hereditary lands occupied holding, at the same time put his opponent any chance of reclaiming these territories.

Economy

Science and Technology

  • 0868: In China, the Diamond Sutra is produced as woodblock print. This document with texts of Mahayana Buddhism is the oldest pressure -Bucher testimony of history.

Culture

  • 2003: A sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, the Saliera ( a salt shaker ) is stolen in the night on Sunday from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
  • 2010: The Centre Pompidou- Metz will be opened by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Metz.

Society

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Nature and Environment

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 19th century

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 20th century

  • 0907: Egilmar, Bishop of Osnabrück
  • 0912: . Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor
  • 0940: Eutychios of Alexandria, Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria
  • 0994: Maiolus, Abbot of Cluny
  • 1028: Landry, Count of Nevers
  • 1271: Henry I of Raron, Bishop of Sion
  • 1589: Johann Lüdinghusen, Mayor of Lübeck
  • 1621: Johann Arndt, German theologian nachreformatorischer
  • 1662: Johann Adlzreiter of Tettenweis, German lawyer and politician
  • 1660: Christoph Althofer, German Lutheran theologian
  • 1662: Joachim von der Marwitz, German soldier and court official
  • 1708: Jules Hardouin -Mansart, French architect
  • 1778: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, British politician, MP, Lord Privy Seal, Prime Minister
  • 1849: Otto Nicolai, German composer
  • 1849: Stephan Ludwig Roth, Transylvanian Saxon writer, school reformers and politicians
  • 1853: Vincent Ferreri Dominic Kuenzer, German Roman Catholic priest, Member of Parliament, Member of the National Assembly in Frankfurt
  • 1857 Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal
  • 1859: John of Austria, Austrian field marshal, German Regent
  • 1865: Carl Högl, Austrian city architect in Vienna
  • 1866: George Edmund Badger, American politician
  • 1867: Johann Friedrich Hermann Albers, German physician and pathologist
  • 1871: John Herschel, British astronomer
  • 1873: Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz, Cuban lawyer and freedom fighter
  • 1877: Johann Heinrich Achterfeld, German theologian, professor and publisher
  • 1881: Henri -Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer and philosopher
  • 1888: Frederick Miller, founder of the U.S. Miller Brewing Company
  • 1891: Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, French physicist
  • 1891: Eugène Ortolan, French jurist, diplomat and composer

20th century

21st Century

  • 2001: Douglas Adams, British author
  • 2001: Klaus Schlesinger, German writer
  • 2003: Noel Redding, British guitarist and bassist
  • 2004: John Whitehead, American musician and producer
  • 2006: Floyd Patterson, American boxing champion
  • 2007: Tanumafili II, Head of State of Samoa
  • 2008: Eugen Jesser, president and director of the Vienna Boys' Choir
  • 2009: Manfred Riedel, German philosopher
  • 2009: Mike Staab, German music producer and DJ
  • 2011: Branko Karabatic, Yugoslav handball goalkeeper and coach

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances Johann Arndt, German minister ( Protestant)
  • St. Cyril of Thessalonica, Byzantine abbot, missionary and theologian ( Orthodox)
  • St. Methodius of Thessalonica, Byzantine missionary, theologian and Bishop ( Orthodox)

More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.

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April May 2 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 History of Athens Siege of Jerusalem (1187) Treaty of Corbeil (1258) Northern Catalonia Crown of Aragon Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1573 Henry III of France Henrician Articles 1647 Willem Kieft 1745 Battle of Fontenoy 1792 Robert Gray (sea captain) Columbia River 1798 French Directory Jacobin 1812 Spencer Perceval John Bellingham 1818 1824 Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden Sepoy Red Fort 1858 Minnesota Territory Minnesota Dakota Territory 1860 History of Italy Giuseppe Garibaldi Expedition of the Thousand Marsala House of Bourbon 1864 Battle of Yellow Tavern Fitzhugh Lee Treaty of London (1867) History of Luxembourg Kulturkampf#May Laws Kulturkampf 1878 October 19 Tsarevich 1894 Illinois Wildcat strike action Pullman Strike 1918 1921 Joseph Wirth World War I reparations German gold mark 1943 Aleutian Islands Attu Island 1945 Herbignac Prague Offensive 1946 April 1 Malayan Union 1949 History of Thailand June 24 1952 1960 Adolf Eichmann 1972 Treaty of Warsaw (1970) 1973 1981 1987 Lyon Klaus Barbie 1998 Smiling Buddha Lithuanian European Union membership referendum, 2003 Council of Europe 1796 The Retreat 1833 Zollverein 1892 Johan Petter Johansson Asbach Uralt 1931 Insolvency Block book 1926 Umberto Nobile Lincoln Ellsworth Norge (airship) 1936 DRG Class 05 Friesack Saint-Nazaire 1997 IBM Deep Blue (chess computer) STS-125 1910 Montana Glacier National Park (U.S.) 1917 Carlo Gozzi Andrew Lloyd Webber Trevor Nunn Elaine Paige New London Theatre West End of London 2002 Cameron Mackintosh 1832 Body snatching Anatomy 1953 Waco, Texas 1974 1985 Bradford City stadium fire Bradford Bradford City A.F.C. 1996 Everglades-Nationalpark Jon Krakauer 1984 Transit of Earth from Mars Babuyan Islands Calayan Rail 1366 1494 1542 Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee 1568 Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg 1586 Angelo Giori 1614 1680 1694 1715 Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach 1720 1722 Petrus Camper 1728 1738 1746 1751 1752 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach 1755 1762 1764 1765 1777 Vinzenz Eduard Milde 1780 1787 1791 1801 Henri Labrouste 1805 Philipp Foltz 1811 1815 Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1817 John F. Potter 1823 Alfred Stevens (painter) Engelbert, 8th Duke of Arenberg 1825 1827 1835 Kārlis Baumanis 1838 1839 1841 Ernst von Possart 1847 Godefroid Kurth 1848 Wilhelm Windelband 1850 Benedetto Lorenzelli 1854 Ottmar Mergenthaler 1855 Anatoly Lyadov 1856 1862 Franklin S. Billings Frank Schlesinger 1872 1874 1875 Harriet Quimby 1882 Joseph Marx 1883 1884 1885 Joe "King" Oliver 1886 1887 Paul Wittgenstein Irving Berlin 1889 Paul Nash (artist) 1890 Henry Morgenthau, Jr. 1893 Martha Graham 1895 Will-Erich Peuckert William Grant Still 1896 1897 1899 Curt Courant 1900 1902 1903 Charlie Gehringer 1904 1905 Kansas Joe McCoy 1906 1907 Eva Schulze-Knabe Hermann Behrends 1908 1909 Georg von Holtzbrinck 1911 Mitchell Sharp Phil Silvers 1913 Robert Jungk 1914 Onelio Jorge Cardoso 1915 1916 Thomas Burton Adams, Jr. 1919 John Michael Hayes 1920 Michele Sindona Geoffrey Crossley Herbert Giersch 1923 1924 Antony Hewish 1925 Rubem Fonseca Edward J. King Rob Schroeder 1927 1928 Marco Ferreri Frank Wolff (actor) 1929 1930 Xiomara Alfaro 1932 1933 Mychal Judge 1934 Jack Twyman 1935 Doug McClure Francisco Umbral Carla Bley 1937 1939 1940 Niklaus Meienberg 1941 Eric Burdon 1942 Elisabeth Gehrer Nancy Greene 1944 Lenore Von Stein 1947 Latif Nazemi 1948 Ed Stelmach Frances Fisher Monika Kaserer Helma Orosz 1955 J. J. Jeczalik Gary Langan 1956 1957 Manfred Hausleitner 1958 1962 Grega Benedik 1963 Ingbert Liebing 1964 John Parrott 1965 Marty Chan Stefano Domenicali 1966 Christoph Schneider 1967 1968 1969 Simon Vroemen 1970 Harold Ford Jr. Nicky Katt 1971 Britta Becker Simon Aspelin 1975 Danny Schwarz 1976 Kardinal Offishall Aesop Rock 1977 1978 Laetitia Casta 1980 Nevio Passaro 1982 Cory Monteith 1983 Arttu Lappi 1986 Abou Diaby 1988 Severin Freund 1989 1990 Florian Hart Julián Leal Leo VI the Wise Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria Majolus of Cluny A. E. Becquerel Karl Schwarzschild Max Reger James Colosimo William Dean Howells Juan Gris Emil Bohnke Georg Wissowa Afonso Costa 1938 Yevgeny Miller Alessio Ascalesi Giovanni Tebaldini Jean Adair Bradley Walker Tomlin 1954 Walter Sydney Adams Takashi Matsumoto (poet) Hans Luther Johnny Hodges Alvar Aalto 1979 Lester Flatt Odd Hassel Kim Philby 1992 1995 David Avidan Ademir Marques de Menezes Ernie Fields Ernst Ising 1999 Paula Wessely John Whitehead (singer)
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