Saturday, May 11, 2024

History for May 11

History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com
Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor
  • 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
  • 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 Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 1997 - In New York, 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.
  • 2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.

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