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What Happened on May 11th This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.
2014	Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
2013	Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
2011	An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
1998	India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
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.
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.
1985	Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
1970	The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
1919	Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1894	Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
1889	An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
1880	Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1857	Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1813	William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.
1812	Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.

Famous People Born on May 11

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Year	Name
1930	Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1995)
1943	Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician
1993	Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player
1962	Steve Bono, American football player
1988	Jeremy Maclin, American football player
1986	Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer
1934	Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)
1955	John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven
1811	Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893)
1888	Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)

Famous People Deaths On May 11

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Date	Name
1983	Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)
1938	George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
1882	Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)
2008	John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)
912	Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (b.866).
1967	James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)
1988	Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)
2005	Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1908)
1963	Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
2003	Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)