11 Mey

The **11t o Mey** is the 131st day o the year (132nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 234 days ti come.

## Events

* 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz on his 4t an final voyage tae the Americas.
* 1812 - Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick Spencer Perceval is assassinatit bi John Bellingham.
* 1846 - US Preses James K. Polk declares war on Mexico.
* 1857 - Indie rebels seize Delhi frae the Breetish.
* 1858 - Minnesota becomes the 32nt state o the Unitit States.
* 1867 - Luxembourg gains unthirldom.
* 1910 - Glacier Naitional Pairk is creatit in the US state o Montana.
* 1937 - Los Glaciares Naitional Pairk is creatit in soothren Argentinae.
* 1943 - Warld War II: American troops land on Attu Island in an attempt tae expel occupyin Japanese forces.
* 1949 - Israel jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1949 - Siam chynges its name tae Thailand for the seicont time.
* 1960 - Mossad agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentinae.
* 1974 - A yirdquauk in Yunnan an Sichuan provinces, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills an estimatit 20,000 fowk.
* 1983 - Aiberdeen F.C. defeats Real Madrid C.F. in the European Cup Winners Cup final in Gothenburg, Swaden.
* 1985 - The Bradford stadium fire kills 56 fowk.
* 1996 - 8 fowk are kilt in a deadly storm on Munt Everest.
* 1998 - Indie conducts 3 underground atomic tests.
* 1998 - The first euro cunyie is made bi the European Bank.
* 2000 - Indie propales that it's reached the population o 1 billion.
* 2003 - A majority o voters in Lithuanie decide tae jyn the European Union.
* 2004 - The Stockline Plastics Factory disaster in Glesga kills 9 fowk.
* 2010 - David Cameron becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, leadin a coaleetion o Conservatives an Leeberal Democrats.
* 2013 - A bomb attack in Turkey's Hatay province kills 42 fowk.
* 2016 - Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill 90 fowk.
* 2016 - Italy legalises semme-sex ceevil pairtnerships.
* 2016 - Michel Temer becomes interim Preses o Brazil efter the impeachment o Dilma Rousseff.
* 2019 - Welsh unthirldom: Wales' first "Aw Unner Ane Banner" mairch taks place in Cairdiff.

## Births

* 1014 - Anawrahta, Emperor o Burma's Pagan Empire (d. 1077)
* 1811 - Chang an Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (d. 1874)
* 1875 - Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)
* 1888 - Irving Berlin, Roushie-American pianist, componer an sangwriter (d. 1989)
* 1900 - Pridi Banomyong, 7t Prime meenister o Thailand (d. 1983)
* 1904 - Salvador Dalí, Spaingie penter (d. 1989)
* 1918 - Richard Feynman, American pheesicist (d. 1988)
* 1924 - Antony Hewish, Inglis radio astronomer
* 1930 - Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
* 1950 - Jeremy Paxman, Inglis jurnalist an writer
* 1951 - Johnny Doyle, Scots fitbawer (d. 1981)
* 1963 - Natasha Richardson, Inglis actress (d. 2009)
* 1964 - John Parrott, Inglis snooker player
* 1973 - Bob Doris, Scots politeecian
* 1978 - Laetitia Casta, French model an actress
* 1979 - Tim Baillie, Scots slalom canoeist
* 1982 - Cory Monteith, Canadian actor an sangster (d. 2013)
* 1983 - Holly Valance, Australian sangster an actress
* 1984 - Andrés Iniesta, Spaingie fitbawer
* 1986 - Marc Fitzpatrick, Scots fitbawer
* 1992 - Thibaut Courtois, Belgian fitbawer
* 1992 - Stephen O'Donnell, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths

* 912 - Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
* 1685 - Margaret Wilson, Scots Covenanter (b. 1667)
* 1716 - James Drummond, 4t Yerl o Perth, Scots statesman an Jacobite (b. 1648)
* 1778 - William Pitt, 1st Yerl o Chatham, Prime meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1708)
* 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1762)
* 1868 - John Crawfurd, Scots medicinar an colonial admeenistrator (b. 1783)
* 1871 - John Herschel, Inglis mathemateecian, astronomer an chemist (b. 1792)
* 1882 - John Brown, Scots medicinar an essayist (b. 1810)
* 1887 - Ion Keith-Falconer, Scots meesionar (b. 1856)
* 1976 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish airchitect (b. 1898)
* 1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican sangster an muisicker (b. 1945)
* 2001 - Douglas Adams, Inglis writer (b. 1952)
* 2007 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Heid o State o Samoa (b. 1913)
* 2015 - John Hewie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1927)

## Halidays

* Statehood Day (Minnesota)
* Naitional Technology Day (Indie)

## References