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May 11 is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 234 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600 330 – Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published, making it the earliest dated and printed book known. 973 – In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England. 1068 – Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, is crowned Queen of England. 1258 – Louis IX of France and James I of Aragon sign the Treaty of Corbeil, renouncing claims of feudal overlordship in one another's territories and separating the House of Barcelona from the politics of France. 1601–1900 1713 – Great Northern War: After losing the Battle of Helsinki to the Russians, the Swedish and Finnish troops burn the entire city, so that it would not remain intact in the hands of the Russians. 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement. 1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. 1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California. 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. 1894 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike. 1901–present 1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1970 – The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage. 1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire. 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. 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. 2011 – An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain. 2013 – Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey. 2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers. 2016 – One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad. 2022 – The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar. 2022 – Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials. 2024 – The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland wins with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner. Births Pre-1600 1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (d. 1637) 1601–1900 1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739) 1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840): 94  1797 – José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician (d. 1867) 1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893) 1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese-American showmen, the original conjoined twins (d. 1874) 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918) 1854 – Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932) 1869 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (d. 1943) 1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943) 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912) 1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964) 1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944) 1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963) 1888 – Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989) 1888 – Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945) 1889 – Paul Nash, British painter (d. 1946) 1890 – Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (d. 1958) 1890 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984) 1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991) 1895 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978) 1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (d. 1986) 1895 – William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978) 1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955) 1897 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961) 1901–present 1901 – Rose Ausländer, poet and author (d. 1988) 1901 – Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (d. 1967) 1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993) 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989) 1905 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004) 1905 – Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (d. 1964) 1907 – Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989) 1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985) 1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (d. 1955) 1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002) 1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) 1924 – Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021) 1925 – Edward J. King, American politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006) 1927 – Bernard Fox, British actor (d. 2016) 1927 – Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (d. 2007) 1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (d. 2002) 1932 – Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer 1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader 1934 – Jim Jeffords, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014) 1934 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012) 1937 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer 1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician 1941 – Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach 1943 – Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician 1947 – Butch Trucks, American drummer (d. 2017) 1948 – Nirj Deva, British politician 1948 – Pam Ferris, Welsh actress 1950 – Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author 1950 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014) 1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadi.... 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