more events on May 11
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1967
The Siege of Khe Sanh ends with the base is still in American hands.
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1960
Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
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1933
Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader.
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1930
Stanley Elkin, author (George Mills).
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1918
Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist.
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1912
Phil Silvers, comedian and actor.
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1904
Salvador Dali, surrealist painter.
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1895
William Grant Still, American composer and conductor.
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1894
Mari Sandoz, writer and biographer (Crazy Horse).
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1888
Irving Berlin, composer, writer of over 1,500 songs.
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1885
“”King” Joseph Oliver, jazz cornetist and bandleader.
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1864
Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern.
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1862
Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia.
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1860
Giuseppe Garibaldi lands at Marsala, Sicily.
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1858
Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
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1857
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1812
British Prime Minster Spencer Perceval is shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
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1792
The Columbia River is discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
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1745
French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.
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1690
In the first major engagement of King William’s War, British troops from Massachusetts seize Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) from the French.
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1689
French and English navies battle at Bantry Bay.
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1573
Henry of Anjou becomes the first elected king of Poland.