May 11 Historical Events

The following events took place on May 11. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.

• 1949
  Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
• 1949
  Israel joins the United Nations.
• 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.
• 1963
  Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
• 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.
• 1970
  The Lubbock tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
• 1973
  Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
• 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
  Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.

• 1987
  In Baltimore, the first heart–lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
• 1995
  More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
• 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 Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
• 1996
  The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
• 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.
• 1998
  India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
• 2000
  Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
• 2010
  David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form the UK’s first coalition government since World War II after elections produced a hung parliament.
• 2013
  Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
• 2014
  Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into the stand by police officers attempting to defuse a hostile incident.