What are the important events that happened on May 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 11 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 28, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,115,360 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontahenagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,524 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 11 Historical Events
- 330 –Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
- 912 –Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 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.
- 1858 –Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
- 1894 –Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
- 1918 –The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
- 1943 –World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
- 2000 –Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
Who were born on May 11?
- 1881 –Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
- 1925 –Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
- 1927 –Bernard Fox, English actor
- 1930 –Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
- 1933 –Louis Farrakhan, American Nation of Islam leader
- 1935 –Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
- 1941 –Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
- 1941 –Graham Miles, English snooker player
- 1959 –Martha Quinn, American television personality
- 1989 –Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
Who died on May 11?
- 1672 –Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish royalist (b. 1615)
- 1848 –Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
- 1916 –Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
- 1955 –Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
- 1988 –Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
- 1990 –Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (b. 1935)
- 1996 –Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
- 1996 –Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
- 2000 –Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
- 2001 –Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
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