May
11
National
Technology Day
The National Technology Day is celebrated
every year on May 11th. This is organized
jointly by Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
and TERUMO PENPOL Ltd.
This day is exclusively for scientists, engineers,
etc where they sit together and think about
the technology developments achieved in the
past year.
Events
May 11
330
– Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a
dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly
referred to as Constantinople.
868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed
in China, making it oldest known dated printed
book.
912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine
Empire.
1310 – In France, fifty-four members of the
Knights Templar are burned at the stake as
heretics.
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.
1745 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle
of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian
army.
1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first
documented white person to sail into the Columbia
River.
1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is
assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby
of the House of Commons, London.
1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory
Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition
westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up
inland Australia for continued expansion throughout
the 19th century.
1820 – HMS Beagle, the ship that will take
Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is
launched.
1846 – President James K. Polk asked for and
received a Declaration of War against Mexico,
starting the Mexican-American War
1857 – Indian Revolution: Indian rebels seize
Delhi from the British.
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S.
State.
1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS
Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest
of Norfolk, Virginia.
1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel
Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
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.
1894 – Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman
Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat
strike in Illinois.
1907 – 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered
train derails at a switch near Surf Depot
in Lompoc, California.
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.
1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences is founded.
1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short
stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
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.
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa,
the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit
by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew.
Although badly damaged, the ship is able to
return to the U.S. under its own power.
1946 – UMNO is created.
1949 – Siam officially changes its name to
Thailand for the second time. The name had
been in use since 1939 but was reverted in
1945.
1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an
F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing
114.
1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli
Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf
Eichmann who is living under the alias of
Ricardo Klement.
1967 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist
and socialist politician, is imprisoned in
Athens by the Greek military junta.
1968 – The Toronto Transit Commission opens
the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth
line, going to Scarborough in the East, and
Etobicoke in the West.
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.
1983 – Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2-1
to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg,
Sweden.
1985 – Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six
spectators die and more than 200 are injured
in a flash fire at Valley Parade football
ground during a match against Lincoln City
in Bradford, England.
1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon
for war crimes committed during World War
II.
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.
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer,
defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of
the rematch, becoming the first computer to
beat a world-champion chess player in a classic
match format.
1998 – India conducts three underground atomic
tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear
device.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists
ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the
Republic of Ingushetia.
Holidays
and observances Christian
Feast Day:
Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Anthimus of Rome
Anthony de Sant'Ana Galvão
Cyril and Methodius (Eastern Orthodox Church,
Anglican Communion)
Francis of Girolama
Gangulphus of Burgundy
Majolus of Cluny
Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints
Odilo of Cluny
May 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest date on which Whit Monday can fall,
while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on
the day after Pentecost. (Christianity)
Holiday of the City of Miskolc (Miskolc)
Nisga'a Day, celebration of the effective
date of the Nisga'a Final Agreement. (Nisga'a
Nation)
One of the three days of the Feast of the
Lemures. (Roman Empire)
National Technology Day (India)
Statehood Day (Minnesota)
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