SomeFacts | May 11

On this day - May 11

330 — Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt ...

868 — A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published, the earliest dated ...

973 — In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English ...

1068 — Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, is crowned ...

1258 — Louis IX of France and James I of Aragon sign the Treaty of ...

1713 — Great Northern War: After losing the Battle of Helsinki to the ...

1812 — Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John ...

1813 — William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth ...

1857 — Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the ...

1878 — Hödel assassination attempt by anarchist Max Hödel targetting ...

1880 — Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun ...

1889 — An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the ...

1894 — Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a ...

1919 — Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright ...

1970 — The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in ...

1973 — Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist ...

1973 — Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges ...

1985 — Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the ...

1987 — Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed ...

1996 — After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started ...

1997 — Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry ...

1998 — India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.

2000 — Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian ...

2009 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to ...

2009 — An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center ...

2010 — David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United ...

2011 — The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.

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 ...

2016 — One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in ...

2022 — Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed ...

2022 — The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the ...

2024 — The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in ...

2024 — Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful ...