Today in History for 11th May 2017:
Historical Events
1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam.
1942 – William Faulkner’s collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1950 – Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
1970 – Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
1997 – Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in chess
2014 – Thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China
Famous Birthdays
1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
1916 – Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer (Nobel Prize 1989), born in Padrón, La Coruña (d. 2002)
1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
1952 – Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
1979 – Erin Lang, Canadian musician
1981 – Austin O’Brien, actor (Apollo 13, My Girl 2, Lawnmower Man)
Famous Deaths
1937 – Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62
1956 – Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79
1962 – Hans Luther, politician and German Chancellor (1925-6), dies at 83
1965 – Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57
1970 – Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1992 – Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90