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Sunday, May 11th

Today is the 132nd day of 2008
There are 233 days left in the year

What happened on May 11th

Events which occurred on this day.

1647Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1858Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
1894Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, subsequently began a boycott of Pullman that blocked freight traffic in and out of Chicago.)
1910Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1944Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy.
1946The first CARE packages for Europe arrived at Le Havre, France.
1947The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
1949Israel was admitted to the United Nations as the world body's 59th member.
1949Siam changed its named to Thailand.
1973Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct.
1985More than 50 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
1996An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board
1997The Deep Blue IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York.
1998India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years.
1998A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.

Consider this...
The seekers after perpetual motion are trying to get something from nothing. -- Sir Isaac Newton

Amusing or Irrelevant Facts...
The Republic of Israel was established April 23, 1948.