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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