About May 11
May 11, 2025 is the 131st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 282 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 11
- 330 –Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
- 1502 –Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
- 1647 –Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
- 1792 –Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
- 1891 –The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
- 1910 –An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
- 1918 –The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
- 1924 –Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
- 1943 –World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
- 1944 –World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
- 1949 –Israel joins the United Nations.
- 1960 –In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
- 1970 –The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
- 1973 –Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
- 1987 –In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
- 1995 –In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
- 1996 –After the aircraft’s departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
- 1996 –The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
- 1998 –India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
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