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Saturday, May 11, 2013

This will be 131st day of the year and 234 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 2 Sivan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 2nd day of the 4th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 11 Birthdays

Salvador Dali
1904–89, Spanish surrealist painter.

Irving Berlin
songwriter (1888)

Dame Margaret Rutherford
actress (1892)

Martha Graham
modern dancer, choreographer (1894)

Camilo José Cela
novelist and poet (1916)

Richard Feynman
physicist (1918)

Louis Farrakhan
religious leader (1933)

Natasha Richardson
actress (1963)

May 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 11 in History

1858

Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States.

1894

The Pullman Strike began.

1949

Siam changed its name to Thailand.

1960

Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1973

Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed.

1981

Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36.

1997

IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 for blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties).

1998

India set off atomic blasts.

2003

91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union—the first former Soviet nation to do so.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.