Editing May 11 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[330]] &ndash; [[Constantine the Great]] dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of [[Byzantium]], changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graham |first1=Alexander John |last2=Mitchell |first2=Stephen |chapter=Constantinople |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |editor-last1=Spawforth |editor-first1=Antony |editor-last2=Eidinow |editor-first2=Esther |editor-last3=Hornblower |editor-first3=Simon |location=Oxford, U.K. |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2012 |isbn=9780199545568 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ |page=256 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Patricios |first=Nicholas N. |title=The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium: Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches |location=London |publisher=Tauris |date=2014 |isbn=9781780762913 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0WGEAAAQBAJ |page=1}}</ref>
*[[868]] &ndash; A copy of the [[Diamond Sūtra]] is published,<ref>{{cite book |last=Soeng |first=Mu |title=Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=2000 |isbn=9780861711604 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozU6AwAAQBAJ |page=58}}</ref> the earliest dated and printed book known.<ref>{{cite web |author=British Library |title=Printed copy of the Diamond Sutra |website=BL.uk |date=2023 |accessdate=May 11, 2023 |url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/diamond-sutra |archive-date=September 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913094027/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/diamond-sutra |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[973]] &ndash; In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, [[Edgar, King of England|Edgar the Peaceful]] is crowned [[List of English monarchs|King of England]], having ruled since 959 AD.<ref name=bauer>{{cite book |last=Bauer |first=Susan Wise |title=The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade |location=New York |publisher=W.W. Norton |date=2010 |isbn=9780393059755 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1u2oP2RihIgC |page=522}}</ref> His wife, [[Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar)|Ælfthryth]], is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hilliam |first=David |title=Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert to Elizabeth II |location=Stroud, Gloucester, U.K. |publisher=Sutton |date=2004 |isbn=9780750935531 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5wTDQAAQBAJ |page=119}}</ref>
*[[1068]] &ndash; [[Matilda of Flanders]], wife of [[William the Conqueror]], is crowned [[List of English royal consorts|Queen of England]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hilton |first=Lisa |title=Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens |location=New York |publisher=Pegasus Books |date=2021 |isbn=9781639360642 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLtCEAAAQBAJ |page=33 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Huneycutt |first=Lois L. |title=Matilda of Scotland: A Study in Medieval Queenship |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. |publisher=The Boydell Press |date=2003 |isbn=9780851159942 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tufwLByo20C |page=51}}</ref>
*[[1258]] &ndash; [[Louis IX of France]] and [[James I of Aragon]] sign the [[Treaty of Corbeil (1258)|Treaty of Corbeil]], renouncing claims of feudal overlordship in one another's territories and separating the [[House of Barcelona]] from the politics of France.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sanders |first=I.J. |title=The Texts of the Peace of Paris, 1259 |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=66 |issue=258 |date=January 1951 |pages=81–97 |doi=10.1093/ehr/lxvi.cclviii.81 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Abulafia |first=David |title=A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca |location=Cambridge, U.K. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2002 |isbn=9780521894050 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4kwR8HCb6akC |page=239 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Castellano |first=Pere Simón |chapter=Catalonia and the Secessionist Debate: How Did We Get Here? |title=States Falling Apart?: Secessionist and Autonomy Movements in Europe |editor-last1=Belser |editor-first1=Eva Maria |editor-last2=Fang-Bär |editor-first2=Alexandra |editor-last3=Massüger |editor-first3=Nina |editor-last4=Pillai |editor-first4=Rekha Oleschak |location=Bern |publisher=Stämpfli Verlag |date=2015 |isbn=9783727259890 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KK1DwAAQBAJ |page=177}}; {{cite book |last=Shidelar |first=John C. |chapter=Catalonia |title=Medieval France: An Encyclopedia |editor-last1=Kibler |editor-first1=William W. |editor-last2=Zinn |editor-first2=Grover A. |editor-last3=Earp |editor-first3=Lawrence M. |editor-last4=Henneman |editor-first4=John Bell Jr. |location=New York |publisher=Garland Publishing |date=1995 |isbn=9780824044442 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQoKeohhNkMC |page=341}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: After losing the [[Battle of Helsinki (1713)|Battle of Helsinki]] to the Russians, the Swedish and Finnish troops burn the entire city, so that it would not remain intact in the hands of the Russians.<ref>{{cite book |first=Seppo |last=Aalto |title=Kruununkaupunki – Vironniemen Helsinki 1640–1721 |publisher=[[Finnish Literature Society]] |location=Helsinki |year=2015 |isbn=978-952-222-675-4 |language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1812]] &ndash; Prime Minister [[Spencer Perceval]] is [[Assassination of Spencer Perceval|assassinated]] by [[John Bellingham]] in the lobby of the British House of Commons.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last=Gillen |first=Mollie |title=Assassination of the Prime Minister: The shocking death of Spencer Perceval |publisher=Sidgwick and Jackson |location=London |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-283-97881-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/assassinationofp0000gill |pages=3–4}}</ref>
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[William Lawson (explorer)|William Lawson]], [[Gregory Blaxland]] and [[William Wentworth]] discover a [[1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains|route across the Blue Mountains]], opening up inland Australia to settlement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lawson's journal |author=Lawson, William (1774–1850) |date=29 September 2015 |url=http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/exploration/blue_mountains/lawson/lawson.html |publisher=State Library of NSW |access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.<ref>Dr. Surendra Nath Sen, pages 71–73 "Eighteen Fifty-Seven", Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; Seven people are killed in the [[Mussel Slough Tragedy]], a gun battle in California.<ref>{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Office of Historic Preservation}} | url=http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21424 | title=Kings County | work=California Historical Landmarks | publisher=California Office of Historic Preservation | access-date=2005-09-12 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; An [[Wham Paymaster robbery|attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort]] results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two [[Medal of Honor|Medals of Honor]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Upton |first1=Larry T. |last2=Ball |first2=Larry D. |date=Summer 1997 |title=Who Robbed Major Wham? Facts and Folklore behind Arizona's Great Paymaster Robbery |journal=The Journal of Arizona History |publisher=Arizona Historical Society |volume=38 |issue=2 |jstor=41696339 |page=121}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a [[Pullman Strike|wildcat strike]].<ref>Cleveland, Grover. [https://archive.org/details/governmentinchi00clev ''The Government and the Chicago Strike of 1894''] [1904]. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1913. Page 4</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Uruguay]] becomes a signatory to the [[Buenos Aires Convention|Buenos Aires]] [[copyright]] [[treaty]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Contracting Parties/Signatories > Buenos Aires Convention |url=https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/treaties/parties/398 |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=wipolex.wipo.int}}</ref>
*[[1970]] &ndash; The [[Lubbock tornado|1970 Lubbock tornado]] kills 26 and causes $250&nbsp;million in damage.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/downtown.html |title=Downtown Tornadoes |website=www.spc.noaa.gov}}</ref>
*[[1973]] – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the ''[[Pentagon Papers]]'' to ''The New York Times'' are dismissed.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Correll |first=John T. |date=February 2007 |title=The Pentagon Papers |url=http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2007/February%202007/0207pentagon.aspx |magazine=Air Force Magazine |accessdate=2018-11-04}}</ref>
*1973   &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight 6551]] crashes in [[Semey]], [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]] (now [[Kazakhstan]]), killing all 63 aboard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin 18B CCCP-75687 Semipalatinsk |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19730511-0 |access-date=2017-12-29 |website=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[1985]] &ndash; Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the [[Bradford City stadium fire]].<ref name="bradford remembers fire disaster">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/4506597.stm |title=Bradford remembers fire disaster |date=11 May 2005 |access-date=4 December 2008 |work=BBC Sport |first=Peter |last=Scrivener |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422112433/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/4506597.stm |archive-date=22 April 2009}}</ref>
*[[1987]] – [[Klaus Barbie]] goes on trial in [[Lyon]] for war crimes committed during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite AV media |title=L'avocat de la terreur |publisher=La Sofica Uni Etoile 3 |year=2007 |trans-title=Terror's Advocate |location=France |authorlink=[[Barbet Schroeder|Schroeder, Barbet]]}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound [[ValuJet Airlines Flight 592]] causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 19, 1997 |title=In-Flight Fire and Impact with Terrain, ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, DC-9-32, N904VJ, Everglades, Near Miami, Florida |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9706.pdf |access-date=24 January 2016 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-97/06}}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]], a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats [[Garry Kasparov]] in the [[Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6|last game]] of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403011912/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 3, 2012 |title=IBM100 - Deep Blue |date=7 March 2012 |website=www-03.ibm.com}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; India conducts [[Pokhran-II|three underground atomic tests]] in Pokhran.<ref>{{cite news |title=India releases pictures of nuclear tests |url=http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9805/17/india.nuke.tests/ |access-date=14 June 2015 |agency=CNN India Bureau |publisher=CNN India Bureau, 1998 |date=17 May 1998}}</ref>
*2000   &ndash; [[Second Chechen War]]: Chechen separatists [[Galashki ambush|ambush]] Russian paramilitary forces in the [[Republic of Ingushetia]].<ref>{{cite web |date=11 May 2000 |title=Нападение на колонну в Ингушетии: уже 19 погибших |url=https://lenta.ru/news/2000/05/11/kolonna/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105233121/https://lenta.ru/news/2000/05/11/kolonna/ |archive-date=2019-01-05 |access-date=2019-01-05 |publisher=[[Lenta.ru]] |lang=ru}}</ref>
*[[2009]] – An American soldier in [[Iraq]] [[Camp Liberty shooting|opens fire]] on a counseling center at [[Camp Liberty]] in [[Baghdad]], killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Londoño |first=Ernesto |date=2009-05-12 |title=U.S. Soldier in Iraq Kills 5 Comrades at Stress Clinic |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051103143.html |access-date=2009-05-12 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
*2009   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] is launched on the [[STS-125|final mission]] to service the [[Hubble Space Telescope]].<ref name="launch2">{{Cite news |last=Watson |first=Traci |date=May 11, 2009 |title=Shuttle blasts off on Hubble mission |url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-05-11-space-shuttle_N.htm |access-date=May 11, 2009 |work=USA Today |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>
*[[2010]] – [[David Cameron]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] as the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] and [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] form [[Cameron–Clegg coalition|the country's first coalition government since the Second World War]].<ref name="Telegraph11May2009YoungestPM2">{{cite news |last=Hough |first=Andrew |date=11 May 2010 |title=David Cameron becomes youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/david-cameron/7712545/David-Cameron-becomes-youngest-Prime-Minister-in-almost-200-years.html |access-date=11 May 2010 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref>
*[[2011]] &ndash; An [[2011 Lorca earthquake|earthquake of magnitude 5.1]] hits [[Lorca, Spain]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0003c5s/ |title=Magnitude 5.1 – Spain |work=earthquake.usgs.gov |publisher=[[USGS]] |date=11 May 2011 |access-date=11 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603070932/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0003c5s/ |archive-date=3 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*  2011   &ndash; The [[Istanbul Convention]] is signed in [[Istanbul]], Turkey.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Council of Europe |date=2011 |title=Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence |url=https://rm.coe.int/168008482e |website=Council of Europe Treaty Series - No. 210}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; Fifty-two people are killed in a [[2013 Reyhanlı car bombings|bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey]].<ref name="HDN20130527">{{cite web |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/reyhanli-bombings-death-toll-reaches-52.aspx?pageID=238&nID=47671&NewsCatID=341 |title=Hurriyet daily news, 27 May 2013 |date=27 May 2013 |access-date=29 October 2014}}</ref> 
*[[2014]] &ndash; Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in [[Kinshasa]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|DRC]], in a [[2014 Stade Tata Raphaël disaster|stampede]] caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-football-stampede-idUSBREA4A0BK20140511 |title=At least 15 killed in Congo football stadium stampede |newspaper=Reuters |author=Emma Farge |date=11 May 2014}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; One hundred and ten people are killed [[11 May 2016 Baghdad bombing|in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-least-29-killed-in-baghdad-car-bombing-1462960588 |title=Islamic State Claims Baghdad Bombing That Killed at Least 103 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=May 11, 2016 |access-date=May 11, 2016}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; The [[Tatmadaw|Burmese military]] executes at least 37 villagers during the [[Mon Taing Pin massacre]] in [[Sagaing Region|Sagaing]], [[Myanmar]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khin Maung Soe |date=2022-06-30 |title='They are going to kill us' |url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/special/survivor-reconstructs-myanmar-atrocities/index.html |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=RFA |language=en}}</ref>
*  2022   &ndash; Palestinian-American journalist [[Shireen Abu Akleh]] is [[Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh|killed]] while covering a raid in [[Jenin]]. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eoin McSweeney |date=2023-05-13 |title='IDF apologizes for death of Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/middleeast/idf-apology-shireen-abu-akleh-intl/index.html |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=CNN}}</ref>
* [[2024]] – Start/Middle of the [[May 2024 solar storms|May 2024 Solar Storms]], the most powerful set of Geomagnetic storms since the [[2003 Halloween solar storms]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=On Friday night the sky danced, and we'll be talking about it for years to come. The great aurora of 10 May 2024 |url=https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/aurora-10-may-2024 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=www.skyatnightmagazine.com |date=12 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; The [[Eurovision Song Contest 2024|68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest]] is held in [[Malmö]], Sweden. [[Nemo (singer)|Nemo]] from [[Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024|Switzerland]] wins with their song [[The Code (Nemo song)|"The Code"]], making them the contest's first [[Non-binary gender|non-binary]] winner.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c03drw23zewo |title=Eurovision 2024: Switzerland's Nemo wins Eurovision as UK comes 18th |last=Savage |first=Mark |website=BBC News |date=12 May 2024 |access-date=12 May 2024}}</ref>