May 11
1858 - Minnesota became the 32nd state.
1894 - Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The job action spread and crippled railroad service nationwide before the federal government intervened to end the strike in July.)
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
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 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.
1947 - The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
1949 - Israel was admitted to the United Nations.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1953 - A tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
1960 - Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1973 - Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by a judge who cited government misconduct.
1981 - Reggae performer ob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36.
1996 - A ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
1997 - IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue" defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six-game chess match (2 for Blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties).
1998 - India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years.
1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.
2003 - A total of 91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union -- the first former Soviet nation to do so.
2010 - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned, ending 13 years of the Labour Party government. (He was succeeded by Conservative David Cameron, who at age 43, became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years.)
2012 - A Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law, William Balfour, of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. (Balfour was sentenced to life in prison.)
2017 - President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression, building upon his unsubstantiated claims that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election. (Trump disbanded the commission in January 2018 amid infighting and refusals by numerous states to cooperate.)
2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to tweets containing disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
2021 - The confrontation between Israel and Hamas, sparked by weeks of tensions in Jerusalem, escalated; Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza while the Israeli city of Tel Aviv came under fire from a barrage of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.
Birthdays
23 - Sabrina Carpenter (singer)
25 - Lana Condor (actress)
29 - Annabelle Attanasio (actress)
33 - Prince Royce (singer)
33 - Cam Newton (football player)
34 - Blac Chyna (model/reality star)
40 - Jonathan Jackson (actor/singer)
41 - Austin O'Brien (actor)
47 - Coby Bell (actor)
52 - Holly Frazier (reality star)
52 - Nicky Katt (actress)
54 - Jeffrey Donovan (actor)
58 - Tim Blake Nelson (actor)
63 - Martha Quinn (actress)
69 - Boyd Gaines (actor)
70 - Frances Fisher (actress)
74 - Pam Ferris (actress)
89 - Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam leader)
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Today in Sports History - May 11
1959 - Yogi Berra (New York Yankees) ended his streak of 148 errorless games.
1963 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws his second career no-hitter in a 8-0 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 in a 11-0 win over the Colorado Rockies.
2003 - Rafael Palmeiro of the Texas Rangers became the 19th player in MLB history to hit 500 career home runs.
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.
1858 - Minnesota became the 32nd state.
1894 - Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The job action spread and crippled railroad service nationwide before the federal government intervened to end the strike in July.)
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
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 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.
1947 - The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
1949 - Israel was admitted to the United Nations.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1953 - A tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
1960 - Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1973 - Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by a judge who cited government misconduct.
1981 - Reggae performer ob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36.
1996 - A ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
1997 - IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue" defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six-game chess match (2 for Blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties).
1998 - India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years.
1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.
2003 - A total of 91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union -- the first former Soviet nation to do so.
2010 - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned, ending 13 years of the Labour Party government. (He was succeeded by Conservative David Cameron, who at age 43, became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years.)
2012 - A Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law, William Balfour, of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. (Balfour was sentenced to life in prison.)
2017 - President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression, building upon his unsubstantiated claims that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election. (Trump disbanded the commission in January 2018 amid infighting and refusals by numerous states to cooperate.)
2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to tweets containing disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
2021 - The confrontation between Israel and Hamas, sparked by weeks of tensions in Jerusalem, escalated; Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza while the Israeli city of Tel Aviv came under fire from a barrage of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.
Birthdays
23 - Sabrina Carpenter (singer)
25 - Lana Condor (actress)
29 - Annabelle Attanasio (actress)
33 - Prince Royce (singer)
33 - Cam Newton (football player)
34 - Blac Chyna (model/reality star)
40 - Jonathan Jackson (actor/singer)
41 - Austin O'Brien (actor)
47 - Coby Bell (actor)
52 - Holly Frazier (reality star)
52 - Nicky Katt (actress)
54 - Jeffrey Donovan (actor)
58 - Tim Blake Nelson (actor)
63 - Martha Quinn (actress)
69 - Boyd Gaines (actor)
70 - Frances Fisher (actress)
74 - Pam Ferris (actress)
89 - Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam leader)
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Today in Sports History - May 11
1959 - Yogi Berra (New York Yankees) ended his streak of 148 errorless games.
1963 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws his second career no-hitter in a 8-0 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 in a 11-0 win over the Colorado Rockies.
2003 - Rafael Palmeiro of the Texas Rangers became the 19th player in MLB history to hit 500 career home runs.
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.
