The 11t o Mey is the 131st day o the year (132nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 234 days ti come.
| Aprile | Days in Mey | Juin |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
- 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz on his 4t an final voyage tae the Americas.[1]
- 1812 - Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick Spencer Perceval is assassinatit bi John Bellingham.[2]
- 1846 - US Preses James K. Polk declares war on Mexico.
- 1857 - Indie rebels seize Delhi frae the Breetish.[3]
- 1858 - Minnesota becomes the 32nt state o the Unitit States.[4]
- 1867 - Luxembourg gains unthirldom.
- 1910 - Glacier Naitional Pairk is creatit in the US state o Montana.
- 1937 - Los Glaciares Naitional Pairk is creatit in soothren Argentinae.
- 1943 - Warld War II: American troops land on Attu Island in an attempt tae expel occupyin Japanese forces.[5]
- 1949 - Israel jyns the Unitit Naitions.
- 1949 - Siam chynges its name tae Thailand for the seicont time.
- 1960 - Mossad agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentinae.[6]
- 1974 - A yirdquauk in Yunnan an Sichuan provinces, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills an estimatit 20,000 fowk.
- 1983 - Aiberdeen F.C. defeats Real Madrid C.F. in the European Cup Winners Cup final in Gothenburg, Swaden.
- 1985 - The Bradford stadium fire kills 56 fowk.[7]
- 1996 - 8 fowk are kilt in a deadly storm on Munt Everest.
- 1998 - Indie conducts 3 underground atomic tests.
- 1998 - The first euro cunyie is made bi the European Bank.[8]
- 2000 - Indie propales that it's reached the population o 1 billion.
- 2003 - A majority o voters in Lithuanie decide tae jyn the European Union.
- 2004 - The Stockline Plastics Factory disaster in Glesga kills 9 fowk.
- 2010 - David Cameron becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, leadin a coaleetion o Conservatives an Leeberal Democrats.[9]
- 2013 - A bomb attack in Turkey's Hatay province kills 42 fowk.[10]
- 2016 - Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill 90 fowk.[11]
- 2016 - Italy legalises semme-sex ceevil pairtnerships.
- 2016 - Michel Temer becomes interim Preses o Brazil efter the impeachment o Dilma Rousseff.
- 2019 - Welsh unthirldom: Wales' first "Aw Unner Ane Banner" mairch taks place in Cairdiff.
- 1014 - Anawrahta, Emperor o Burma's Pagan Empire (d. 1077)
- 1811 - Chang an Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (d. 1874)
- 1875 - Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)[12]
- 1888 - Irving Berlin, Roushie-American pianist, componer an sangwriter (d. 1989)
- 1900 - Pridi Banomyong, 7t Prime meenister o Thailand (d. 1983)
- 1904 - Salvador Dalí, Spaingie penter (d. 1989)
- 1918 - Richard Feynman, American pheesicist (d. 1988)[13]
- 1924 - Antony Hewish, Inglis radio astronomer[14]
- 1930 - Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
- 1950 - Jeremy Paxman, Inglis jurnalist an writer[15]
- 1951 - Johnny Doyle, Scots fitbawer (d. 1981)
- 1963 - Natasha Richardson, Inglis actress (d. 2009)
- 1964 - John Parrott, Inglis snooker player
- 1973 - Bob Doris, Scots politeecian
- 1978 - Laetitia Casta, French model an actress[16]
- 1979 - Tim Baillie, Scots slalom canoeist
- 1982 - Cory Monteith, Canadian actor an sangster (d. 2013)[17]
- 1983 - Holly Valance, Australian sangster an actress
- 1984 - Andrés Iniesta, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1986 - Marc Fitzpatrick, Scots fitbawer
- 1992 - Thibaut Courtois, Belgian fitbawer
- 1992 - Stephen O'Donnell, Scots fitbawer
- 912 - Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
- 1685 - Margaret Wilson, Scots Covenanter (b. 1667)
- 1716 - James Drummond, 4t Yerl o Perth, Scots statesman an Jacobite (b. 1648)
- 1778 - William Pitt, 1st Yerl o Chatham, Prime meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1708)
- 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1762)[18]
- 1868 - John Crawfurd, Scots medicinar an colonial admeenistrator (b. 1783)
- 1871 - John Herschel, Inglis mathemateecian, astronomer an chemist (b. 1792)
- 1882 - John Brown, Scots medicinar an essayist (b. 1810)
- 1887 - Ion Keith-Falconer, Scots meesionar (b. 1856)
- 1976 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish airchitect (b. 1898)
- 1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican sangster an muisicker (b. 1945)
- 2001 - Douglas Adams, Inglis writer (b. 1952)
- 2007 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Heid o State o Samoa (b. 1913)
- 2015 - John Hewie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1927)
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