History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com
Irving Berlin 1888 - Composer, lyricist, Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) 1904 - Surrealist painter, Phil Silvers 1912 - Entertainer, comedy actor ("The Phil Silvers Show"), known as "The King of Chutzpah"
Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor, Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam, Eric Burdon 1941 - Musician (The Animals)
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1967 - The siege of Khe Sanh ended.
1996 - An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board were killed.
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