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"
Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam, Doug McClure 1938 - Actor, Dr. Robert Jarvik 1946 - Scientist, researcher, entrepreneur
0330 - Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded.
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
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.
1997 - Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
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