On May 11, 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct.
Go to article » On May 11, 1894, Martha Graham, the American dancer and choreographer who was a pioneer of modern dance, was born. Following her death on April 1, 1991, her obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1858 | Minnesota became the 32nd state. |
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| 1894 | Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The job action spread and crippled railroad service nationwide before the federal government intervened to end the strike in July.) |
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| 1888 | Songwriter Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Temun, Russia. |
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| 1910 | Glacier National Park in Montana was established. |
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| 1947 | The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire. |
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| 1949 | Israel was admitted to the United Nations. |
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| 1949 | Siam changed its named to Thailand. |
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| 1981 | Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer at age 36. |
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| 1996 | A ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board |
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| 1997 | The Deep Blue IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York. |
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| 1998 | India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years. |
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| 1998 | A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro. |
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| 2010 | British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned, ending 13 years of the Labour Party government. (He was succeeded by Conservative David Cameron. |
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Current Birthdays
Actor Cory Monteith ("Glee") turns 29 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan SteinbergActress Shohreh Aghdashloo turns 59 years old today.
AP Photo/Richard Vogel
| 1927 | Mort Sahl, Comedian, turns 84 |
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| 1934 | James Jeffords, Former U.S. senator, I-Vt., turns 77 |
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| 1941 | Eric Burdon, Rock singer (The Animals), turns 70 |
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| 1952 | Frances Fisher, Actress, turns 59 |
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| 1953 | Boyd Gaines, Actor, turns 58 |
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| 1959 | Martha Quinn, Former MTV VJ, turns 52 |
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| 1968 | Jeffrey Donovan, Actor, turns 43 |
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| 1983 | Matt Leinart, Football player, turns 28 |
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Historic Birthdays
Martha Graham5/11/1894 - 4/1/1991American dancer, teacher and choreographer.Go to obituary »
| 76 | Baron Munchhausen 5/11/1720 - 2/22/1797
German story-teller; his tales became "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" |
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| 91 | Fanny Cerrito 5/11/1817 - 5/6/1909
Russian-born American composer for stage and screen musicals |
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| 66 | Charles Warren Fairbanks 5/11/1852 - 6/4/1918
American politician; vice-president under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-09) |
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| 72 | Frank Schlesinger 5/11/1871 - 7/10/1943
American astronomer |
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| 101 | Irving Berlin 5/11/1888 - 9/22/1989
Russian-born American composer for stage and screen musicals |
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| 75 | Henry Morgenthau, Jr. 5/11/1891 - 2/6/1967
American secretary of the treasury (1934-45) |
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| 80 | Dame Margaret Rutherford 5/11/1892 - 5/22/1972
English stage and screen actress |
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| 83 | William Grant Still 5/11/1895 - 12/3/1978
American composer and conductor |
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| 84 | Salvador Dali 5/11/1904 - 1/23/1989
Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker |
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| 78 | Herbert Philbrick 5/11/1915 - 8/16/1993
American counterintelligence agent for the F.B.I. |
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