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.
1824: The National Gallery in London opened to the public.
1857: Indian Rebellion of 1857- In India, the first war of Independence began. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
1899: Execution of Mahadev Vinayak Ranade for murdering Dravidian brothers in Rand murder case.
1907: Swatantryaveer Savarkar celebrates the golden jubilee of the 1857 freedom struggle in London.
1937: Unconditional release of Swatantryaveer Savarkar from Ratnagiri.
1940: World War II – Hitler invades Holland, Belgium, and France.
1940: World War II – Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
1962: Marvel Comics published the first issue of The Incredible Hulk magazine.
1979: Micronesia became a republic.
1993: Santosh Yadav became the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest twice.
1994: Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.
2005: India and Pakistan agreed to start the Lahore-Amritsar bus service.
2006: ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin signed an agreement to put two US scientific instruments on India’s Chandrayaan 1 to be sent to the moon.
Famous Birthdays – May 10.
1265: Emperor Fushimi, the 92nd emperor of Japan.
1855: Sri Yukteswar Giri, an Indian monk and yogi.
1671: Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal.
1905: Pankaj Mullick, a Bengali Indian music composer, playback singer, and actor.
1909: B. S. Kesavan, the first National Librarian of independent India.
1918: Rameshwarnath Kao, Founder President of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
1927: Kunjunni Mash, an Indian poet of Malayalam literature.
1927: Nayantara Sahgal, an Indian writer.
1932: Jagdish Khebudkar, an Indian Marathi litterateur and lyricist of Marathi cinema.
1937: Manik Godghate, popularly known by his pen name Grace, a Marathi prose writer and poet.
1951: V. K. Singh, an Indian politician and a former four-star General in the Indian Army.
1954: Prakash Ambedkar, an Indian politician, social activist, writer, and lawyer.
Death Anniversaries - May 10.
1774: Louis XV, King of France.
1899: Execution of Mahadev Vinayak Ranade for murdering Dravidian brothers in Rand murder case.
1998: Yadunath Thatte, a Marathi journalist, editor, biographer, social worker, and socialist leader from Maharashtra, India.
