Wednesday, May 11, 2022

History for May 11

History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com
Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
  • 1857 - Indian mutineers seized Delhi from the British.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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