The May 11th is the 131e Jour of the Année (132e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 330 : Constantinople becomes officially the capital of the Roman Empire.

• 868 : Impression of the first book by Wan Jie in China. It is a xylographic edition " Sutra of diamond " , which ends in indications on its publication date and its author.
• 1573 : Henri, duke of Anjou, is elected king of Poland (Henri Ier).
• 1745 : French Victoire with the Battle of Fontenoy.
• 1798 : Coup d'etat of the 22 floréal year VI.
• 1865 : Creation with Paris of the department store In Spring by Jules Jaluzot.
• 1893 : The French Henri Desgrange establishes to 35,235 km the record of the hour. This record cyclist has as a framework the Vélodrome Buffalo with Paris.

20th century

• 1936
• the first of the strikes of joy in the factories accompanying the victory by the Popular front to the legislative elections bursts.
• 1950
• First of the Professional singer bald person , of Eugene Ionesco, with the Theater of the Night birds.
• 1960 :
• Launching of the Steamer France with Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), by the general Charles de Gaulle.
• Adolf Eichmann, criminal Nazi in escape, is removed with Buenos Aires by a team of the Mossad.
• 1997 : the world champion of failures Garry Kasparov is beaten by the computer IBM Deep Blue.
• 1998 : The cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was made Commandeur in the National order of the Légion of honor in France.
• 2000 : The India account officially 1 billion inhabitants.

Births

• 483 : Justinien, future emperor of Byzance († 565).
• 1752 : Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, anthropologist and German biologist († 1840).
• 1801 : Henri Labrouste, Architect French († 1875).
• 1817 : Fanny Cerrito, Italian dancer born with Naples († 1909).
• 1824 : Jean-Leon Gérôme, painter and sculptor French († January 10th 1904)
• 1881: Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist († May 6th 1963)
• 1892: Margaret Rutherford, British Actress († 1972).
• 1894 : Martha Graham, dancer and American choreographer († 1991).
• 1904 : Salvador Dali, Spanish painter († 1989).
• 1914 : Haroun Tazieff, volcanologist and Geologist French († 1998).
• 1916 : Camilo Jose That, Spanish writer († 2002).
• 1917 : Georges Hatz, footballer French.
• 1918 : Richard Feynman, American Physicist († 1988).
• 1928 : Marco Ferreri, Realizer, producing Scenario writer and Italian († 1997).
• 1928 : Yvonne Furneaux, French actress.
• 1930 : Edsger Dijkstra, Mathematician and data processing specialist Dutch († 2002).
• 1938 : Carla Bley, Pianist, Compositrice and Arrangeuse of Jazz American.
• 1941 :
• Eric Burdon, British Singer of the group The Animals.
• Serge Marjollet, writer and philosopher French.
• 1946 : Georges Bereta, Football or French.
• 1951 : Corinne Lepage, French political woman.
• 1952 : Renaud (Renaud Séchan), Singer French.
• 1957 :
• Fanny Cottençon, French Actress.
• Jean-François Dérec, Humoriste French
• Peter North, Actor porn states-uniens.
• 1958 :
• Isabelle Mergault, Actress and French Director.
• Brice Hortefeux, French politician.
• 1960 : Gildor Roy, actor and Singer Québécois.
• 1963 : Natasha Richardson, British Actress .
• 1966 : Estelle Lefébure, Mannequin French.
• 1967 : Anaïs Jeanneret, French actress and écrivaine.
• 1974 : Benoit Magimel, Actor French.
• 1978 :
• Laetitia Casta, Mannequin and French Actress.
• Perttu Kivilaakso, violoncellist Finnish of the group Apocalyptica

Death

• 912 : Leon VI, known as the Wise one, Byzantine emperor (° September 19th 866)

• 994: Maïeul, fourth Abbot of Cluny (°C. 910)
• 1304: Ghazan, Mongolian Khan of Persia (° March 5th 1271)
• 1610: Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit and sinologist (° October 6th 1552)
• 1633: Catherine de Clèves, countess of Have, widow of Henri I {{er}} of Own way, Duke of Own way, and mother of Louis III, cardinal of Own way (° 1548)
• 1708: Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect (° April 16th 1646)
• 1723: Jean Galbert de Campistron, French playwright (° 1656)
• 1778: William Pitt Old the, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (° November 15th 1708)
• 1801: Jose Delgado Guerra known as “Pepe Hillo”, Spanish matador (° March 11th 1754)
• 1812: Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (° November 1st 1762)
• 1849: Juliette Récamier, French woman of Letters (° December 4th 1777)
• 1857: Eugene-François Vidocq, police French (° July 24th 1775)
• 1859: Jean-Baptiste of Austria, brother of the emperor François II (° January 20th 1782).
• 1871 : John Herschel, Scientific and a British Astronomer (° March 7th 1792)
• 1887: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (° February 2nd 1802)
• 1891: Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, French physicist (° March 24th 1820)
• 1916: max Reger, German type-setter (° March 19th 1873)
• 1916: Karl Schwarzschild, German Astrophysicist (° October 9th 1973)
• 1927: Juan Gris ( Jose Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez ), Spanish painter (° March 23rd 1887)
• 1933: John G. Adolfi, Realizer states-unien (° February 19th 1881)
• 1960: John Davison Rockefeller Junior, philanthropist states-unien (° January 29th 1874)
• 1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser, doctor states-unien, Nobel Prize of medicine 1944 (° July 5th 1888)
• 1976: Alvar Aalto, Architect Finnish (° February 3rd 1898)
• 1981: Bob Marley, Singer of Reggae and Guitarist jamaïcain (° February 6th 1945)
• 1981: Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize of chemistry 1969 (b° May 17th 1897)
• 1987: Emmanuel Vitria, senior of grafted French heart (° 1920)
• 1998: Kim Philby ( Harold Adrian Russel Philby ), double agent British (° January 1st 1912)
• 2001: Douglas Adams, British writer (° March 11th 1952)
• 2007: Stanley Holden, 79 years, British dancer . (° January 27th 1928).

Almanac

With the the Middle Ages, the summer started immediately after the festivals of saints Mamert, Pancrace and Servais (May 11th, 12th and 13rd), most famous, but also most dreaded of the Saints of ice.

May 11th 1987, the minimal temperature under shelter still tumbled down up to 2 degrees in Brussels.

the saints Were useful, Pancrace and Mamert makes with them three a small winter

Celebrations

• Memory of the dedication of Constantinople (330).

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Cyrille and Méthode (9th century), apostles of Slavic (orthodoxe use).
• Estelle Holy (3rd century), martyrdom.
• Mamert of Vienna († 475), bishop founder of Rogations.
• Maïeul or Mayeul of Cluny

Orthodoxe saint

• Alexis of Kiev, monk.

See too

• May 11th in sport
• May 11th in the railroads

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