May 11
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
1858 - Minnesota became the 32nd state.
1894 - The Pullman Strike began.
1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
1935 - The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
1946 - The first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1953 - A tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
1960 - Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who had been hiding in Argentina.
1973 - The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the "Pentagon Papers" case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
1981 - Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at age 36.
1996 - An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
1997 - IBM's supercomputer "Deep Blue" defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 wins for Blue, 1 loss, 3 ties).
1998 - India set off atomic blasts.
2003 - More than 91% of Lithuanians voted to join the European Union -- the first former Soviet nation to do so.
2010 - Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.
2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to tweets containing disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
2022 - The Senate fell far short in a rushed effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster. The move came after a draft report from the Supreme Court overturning the 50-year-old ruling. (The 6-3 decision would be issued essentially as drafted the following month.)
2022 - Christie's auction house said "The Rock," an egg-sized white diamond billed as the largest of its kind to go up for auction, sold for more than 21.6 million Swiss francs ($21.75 million).
Birthdays
24 - Sabrina Carpenter (singer)
24 - Madison Lintz (actress)
26 - Lana Condor (actress)
30 - Annabelle Attanasio (actress)
34 - Cam Newton (football player)
34 - Prince Royce (singer)
35 - Blac Chyna (model)
41 - Jonathan Jackson (actor/singer)
42 - Austin O'Brien (actor)
46 - Bobby Roode (professional wrestler)
48 - Coby Bell (actor)
53 - Nicky Katt (actor)
55 - Jeffrey Donovan (actor)
59 - Tim Blake Nelson (actor)
70 - Boyd Gaines (actor)
71 - Frances Fisher (actress)
75 - Pam Ferris (actress)
90 - Louis Farrakhan (leader of the Nation of Islam)
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Today in Sports History - May 11
1963 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws his second career no-hitter in a win over the San Francisco Giants.
1968 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the St. Louis Blues to win the Stanley Cup.
1972 - The Boston Bruins defeat the New York Rangers in six games to win the Stanley Cup.
1985 - In Bradford, England, 56 people died when a fire engulfed the main grandstand at Bradford's soccer stadium. Over 200 were injured.
1996 - Al Leiter threw the first no-hitter in Florida Marlins history.
2003 - Rafael Palmeiro (Texas Rangers) hit his 500th career home run to become only the 19th player in baseball history to reach the mark.
2015 - The NFL announced that Tom Brady (New England Patiots) would be suspended without pay for the first four regular season games of the 2015-16 season. The supsension was for violation the NFL policy on the integrity of the game for his knowledge of under-inflated footballs after being checked by officials. It was also announced that the New England Patriots would be fined $1 million and would forfeit a 2016 first-round draft and a 2017 fourth-round selection in the NFL Draft.
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
1858 - Minnesota became the 32nd state.
1894 - The Pullman Strike began.
1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
1935 - The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
1946 - The first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1953 - A tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
1960 - Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who had been hiding in Argentina.
1973 - The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the "Pentagon Papers" case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
1981 - Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at age 36.
1996 - An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
1997 - IBM's supercomputer "Deep Blue" defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 wins for Blue, 1 loss, 3 ties).
1998 - India set off atomic blasts.
2003 - More than 91% of Lithuanians voted to join the European Union -- the first former Soviet nation to do so.
2010 - Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.
2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to tweets containing disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
2022 - The Senate fell far short in a rushed effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster. The move came after a draft report from the Supreme Court overturning the 50-year-old ruling. (The 6-3 decision would be issued essentially as drafted the following month.)
2022 - Christie's auction house said "The Rock," an egg-sized white diamond billed as the largest of its kind to go up for auction, sold for more than 21.6 million Swiss francs ($21.75 million).
Birthdays
24 - Sabrina Carpenter (singer)
24 - Madison Lintz (actress)
26 - Lana Condor (actress)
30 - Annabelle Attanasio (actress)
34 - Cam Newton (football player)
34 - Prince Royce (singer)
35 - Blac Chyna (model)
41 - Jonathan Jackson (actor/singer)
42 - Austin O'Brien (actor)
46 - Bobby Roode (professional wrestler)
48 - Coby Bell (actor)
53 - Nicky Katt (actor)
55 - Jeffrey Donovan (actor)
59 - Tim Blake Nelson (actor)
70 - Boyd Gaines (actor)
71 - Frances Fisher (actress)
75 - Pam Ferris (actress)
90 - Louis Farrakhan (leader of the Nation of Islam)
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Today in Sports History - May 11
1963 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws his second career no-hitter in a win over the San Francisco Giants.
1968 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the St. Louis Blues to win the Stanley Cup.
1972 - The Boston Bruins defeat the New York Rangers in six games to win the Stanley Cup.
1985 - In Bradford, England, 56 people died when a fire engulfed the main grandstand at Bradford's soccer stadium. Over 200 were injured.
1996 - Al Leiter threw the first no-hitter in Florida Marlins history.
2003 - Rafael Palmeiro (Texas Rangers) hit his 500th career home run to become only the 19th player in baseball history to reach the mark.
2015 - The NFL announced that Tom Brady (New England Patiots) would be suspended without pay for the first four regular season games of the 2015-16 season. The supsension was for violation the NFL policy on the integrity of the game for his knowledge of under-inflated footballs after being checked by officials. It was also announced that the New England Patriots would be fined $1 million and would forfeit a 2016 first-round draft and a 2017 fourth-round selection in the NFL Draft.
