Historical Events - May 11.
1784: Treaty between the British and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore.
1857: National uprising of 1857 – Indians captured Delhi from the British.
1867: Luxembourg gained independence.
1888: Rao Bahadur Vaddedar conferred the title of Mahatma on the great social reformer Jyotiba Phule at Koliwada in Mandvi, Mumbai.
1949: Israel joined the United Nations.
1949: Siam officially changed its name to Thailand for the second time.
1951: President Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the newly constructed Somnath Temple.
1956: The Gold Coast was declared free from British rule. The Gold Coast, which we know today as Ghana, was signed by the British government on 6 March 1957 for its independence.
1996: Mount Everest disaster – 8 people who climbed Mount Everest on the same day died.
1998: Twenty-four years later, India again conducted three successful nuclear tests, including a hydrogen bomb-making device, in the Pokhran desert region of Rajasthan.
Famous Birthdays – May 11.
1895: Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian speaker, and writer.
1904: Salvador Dali, a Spanish surrealist artist.
1911: Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, an Indian poet of Malayalam literature.
1912: Saadat Hasan Manto, a colonial Indian and Pakistani writer, playwright, and author.
1918: Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai, an Indian classical dancer, choreographer, and instructor.
1918: Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist.
1950: Sadashiv Amrapurkar, an Indian actor.
Death Anniversaries - May 11.
1871: Sir John Herschel, an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer.
1889: John Cadbury, a Quaker and English proprietor and founder of Cadbury.
2009: Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, the 8th Chief of the Naval Staff.
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