Observed on 11 May
- National Technology Day: Marks the Pokhran-II nuclear tests of 11 May 1998.
11 May in Indian history
11 May in world history
- 2024The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland win with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.
- 2024Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
- 2022Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin refugee camp.
- 2022The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.
- 2014Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
- 2011An earthquake registering Mw 5.1, the worst to hit the region for more than 50 years, struck near Lorca, Spain.
- 2010David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
- 2009An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
- 2009Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
- 1997Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.
- 1970The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
- 1953In the deadliest of a series of tornadoes, an F5 tornado kills 114 in Waco, Texas.
- 1919Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1858Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
- 1813William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first confirmed Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains.
- 1258Louis IX of France and James I of Aragon sign the Treaty of Corbeil, renouncing claims of feudal overlordship in one another's territories and separating the House of Barcelona from the politics of France.
Born on 11 May
- 1992Bobi, Portuguese Rafeiro do Alentejo, oldest recorded dog (died 2023)
- 1964Tim Blake Nelson, American actor
- 1951Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta
- 1950Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (died 2014)India
- 1918Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
- 1895Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)India
Died on 11 May
Frequently asked questions
- What happened on 11 May in history?
- 2024: The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland win with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner. 2024: Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms. 2022: Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin refugee camp. 2022: The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.
- What happened on 11 May in Indian history?
- 1998: India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier. 1857: Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
- Which famous people were born on 11 May?
- Bobi, Portuguese Rafeiro do Alentejo, oldest recorded dog (died 2023) (1992); Tim Blake Nelson, American actor (1964); Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta (1951); Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (died 2014) (1950).
- Which day is observed on 11 May?
- National Technology Day.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), sorted with India-related events first.