11th May anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1709
  • Germany
  • The first mass emigration of Palatines from Germany to N. America began
  • 1934
  • United States
  • A two-day dust storm removed massive amounts of topsoil from the American Great Plains. It was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl era
  • 1949
  • Israel
  • Israel was admitted to the United Nations
  • 1949
  • Thailand
  • Siam changed its named to Thailand
  • 1969
  • Great Britain
  • The Monty Python comedy group was formed at the BBC in London
  • 1985
  • Great Britain
  • Bradford City Football Fire
  • 1998
  • France
  • A French mint began producing the first euro coins – Europe’s new single currency.
  • 1998
  • India
  • India exploded 3 atomic bombs underground in its first nuclear tests for 24 years.
• Death
  • 1708
  • France
  • "Death of Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect"
  • 1812
  • Great Britain
  • "Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham, who was subsequently hanged"
  • 1988
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Kim Philby, British-born Soviet spy ."