Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 11
This is a list of selected May 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Pullman Strike
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Robert Gray
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. | refimprove |
| 1867 – The major powers in Europe signed the Second Treaty of London to solve the Luxembourg Crisis between France and Prussia over the political status of Luxembourg. | no 3rd party refs |
| 1918 – Tapa Tchermoeff became the first, and eventually only, Prime Minister of the short-lived Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus. | neither article has footnotes |
| 1949 – Siam was officially renamed Thailand, a name unofficially in use since 1939. | refimprove, POV, date not verified |
Eligible
- 330 – The city of Byzantium was consecrated as Constantinople, the new capital of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine the Great (bust pictured).
- 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in China, making it the world's oldest dated printed book.
- 1792 – Merchant sea captain Robert Gray first entered the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded European to navigate the largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America.
- 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first Europeans confirmed to cross the Blue Mountains.
- 1858 – Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the thirty-second U.S. state.
- 1880 – A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle broke out, leaving seven dead.
- 1946 – The United Malays National Organisation, today Malaysia's largest political party, was founded, originally to oppose the constitutional framework of the Malayan Union.
- 1960 – Israeli Mossad agents captured Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader and fugitive war criminal who was sometimes referred to as "the architect of the Holocaust", hiding in Argentina.
- 1996 – A severe blizzard on Mount Everest caused the deaths of eight climbers, helping make 1996 the deadliest single year in the mountain's history.
Notes
- Rudolf Hess appears on May 10, so Adolf Eichmann should not appear in the same year.
- 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeated the Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian "Pragmatic Army" at the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands in present day Belgium.
- 1812 – In the lobby of the British House of Commons, Spencer Perceval (pictured) became the first, and to date only, British Prime Minister to be assassinated.
- 1894 – In response to a 28 percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on a strike in Illinois, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
- 1910 – Glacier National Park, located in the U.S. state of Montana, was designated a national park.
- 1985 – During an association football match between Bradford City and Lincoln City in Bradford, England, a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade stadium, killing 56 attendees.
- 1997 – Deep Blue became the first computer to win a match against a world chess champion, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in six games.